i mean where are the jacobins and the reign of terror when you really need them?

bigot

a wolf in sheeps clothing

Rick Santorum is the new Republican front runner,  just wait till everyone Google's his name.

witch burners

what the hell lets just bring back WITCH burning and be done with this age of reason nonsense

More Pills?

AND WE LAUGH

AT OUR OWN PERIL

ANNOYING??

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LIAR LIAR

WTF??

its Romney

"The sheriff's office murdered my brother," Atencio told Phoenix New Times. "That's what I want to get out to the public right now:

"The sheriff's office murdered my brother," Atencio told Phoenix New Times. "That's what I want to get out to the public right now: Sheriff Joe is murdering inmates."

Specifically, states the investigation, Arpaio's Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office “engages in racial profiling of Latinos; unlawfully stops, detains, and arrests Latinos; and unlawfully retaliates against individuals who complain about or criticize MCSO' s policies or practices.” For this reason, the federal government has stripped Arpaio of access to 287 (g) and restricted participation in “Secure Communities,” programs that allow local law enforcement to engage in immigration enforcement and that were the basis of Arpaio’s “operations” to seek out and detain immigrants.

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Ayn Rand’s “philosophy” is nearly perfect in its immorality,

Ayn Rand’s “philosophy” is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society....To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.— Gore Vidal, 1961

Thanks in part to Rand, the United States is one of the most uncaring nations in the industrialized world.

i call it progress

When we deprive women of access to abortion, shun them, and even throw them in jail, we as a society become weaker.

this is Religion your religion

this disappoints me

Krugman: This is a Depression

oreilly an @ss hole or just a pathetic pussy?

Iowa Debate: Clueless Romney's $10,000 Bet Blunder Makes Gingrich the Man to Beat

What is your political ideology? Your Result: Social Democrat   This quiz has defined you as a Social Democrat (you may or may not be a Democratic Socialist as well). In general you are in the Liberal mindset, but wish to take it a step further. You favour the brodening of various social programs and a progressive income tax system to help alleviate social inequality. You wish to change the current social paradigm, but through gradual means.
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i know who to blame


People should not ask what drew young men to gang-rape a child, and they should not ask what someone was drinking or wearing when she was assaulted. Victims should not be told to “be more careful” after being attacked. I was not assaulted because of what I had been wearing or drinking. The assumption that I should have known better and wasn’t being careful is insulting. The circumstances surrounding my assault shouldn’t matter. What matters is that I was assaulted.

The culture of victim blaming has to stop. But it won’t until members of law enforcement — and society at large — change their attitudes.

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i just found this curious

dont forget what your good book says

Neil Young CSN&Y Southern Man by ivaxavihow long how long?

alL he needs is a sheet a big wooden cross and some gasoline, hopefully he'll light himself on fire

SOUTHERN MAN BETTER TURN YOUR HEAD DONT FORGET WHAT YOUR GOOD BOOK SAID..HOW LONG HOW LONG SOUTHERN MAN?

baggage

He's scared of OWS because the movement exposes his lies.

Frank Luntz has been helping to distort the language of Republicans for decades. His specialty is developing dishonest phrases to replace accurate descriptions of social and political issues when the accurate descriptions produce negative impressions of conservatives and their unpopular agenda.

is the Republican laissez faire economic model Irrefutable??!HARDLY

a conservative think tank did a study of what makes for a successful prosperous country the results were surprising ..What else? They are all borderline socialist states, with generous welfare benefits and lots of redistribution of wealth. Yet they don't let that socialism cross the line into autocracy. Civil liberties are abundant (consider decriminalized drugs and prostitution in the Netherlands). There are few restrictions on the flow of capital or of labor. Legatum's scholars point out that Denmark, for example, has little job protection, but generous unemployment benefits. So business owners can keep the right number of workers, while workers can have a safety net while they muck around looking for that fulfilling job.

The end of prosecutions
The indictments and trials ended in 1957 as the result of a series of Supreme Court decisions. Yates v. United States ruled unconstitutional the convictions of numerous party leaders in a ruling that distinguished between advocacy of an idea for incitement and the teaching of an idea as a concept. The Court ruled 6-1 in Watkins v. United States that defendants could use the First Amendment as a defense against "abuses of the legislative process."Template:354 U.S. 178 (1957)
On June 5, 1961, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld by 5-4 the conviction of Junius Scales under the "membership clause" of the Smith Act. Scales began serving a six-year sentence on October 2, 1961. He was released after serving fifteen months when President John F. Kennedy commuted his sentence in 1962.

Yates v. United States, 354 U.S. 298 (1957), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States involving free speech and congressional powe

During its national conference this July in Abbeville, S.C. — the self-proclaimed “birthplace and deathbed of the Confederacy” — the LOS continued in the same vein of preparing for the day the federal government collapses and the South rises again. “The mantra [that] violence, or the serious threat thereof, never settles anything is patently false,” Hill said in a prepared speech that was later posted on the group’s website. “History shows that it indeed does settle many things. Please don’t forget this — your enemy hasn’t.”

Yates v. United States, 354 U.S. 298 (1957), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States involving free speech and congressional power. It ruled that the First Amendment protected radical and reactionary speech, unless it posed a "clear and present danger."


Opinion

The Supreme Court of the United States first narrowly construed the Smith Act, stating that the term "organize" meant to form a new organization, not any subsequent organizational acts. Then, the Court drew a distinction between actual advocacy to action and mere belief. The Court ruled that the Smith Act did not prohibit “advocacy of forcible overthrow of the government as an abstract doctrine.” This does not mean that actual advocacy to action is permitted - merely expression of the abstract idea. Tellingly, the Court recognized that actual "advocacy to action" circumstances would be "few and far between." In Justice Black's opinion, he wrote of the original Smith Act trials:
"The testimony of witnesses is comparatively insignificant. Guilt or innocence may turn on what Marx or Engels or someone else wrote or advocated as much as a hundred years or more ago.[...] When the propriety of obnoxious or unfamiliar views about government is in reality made the crucial issue, [...] prejudice makes conviction inevitable except in the rarest circumstances."
The convictions of the indicted members were reversed and the case was remanded to District Court for a retrial.

"Gunter glieben glauben globen" there that got your attention did it not?? OH YES IT DID, NOW READ THE ARTICLE ITS IMPORTANT!!

try again

you know look i am very very sympathetic to the occupy wall street thing obviously i would not be here, but how many people have died? 1 2 4? if that many..people have been maced and roughed up..reporters are being raped people are being beheaded and castrated in egypt and syria you know? its important to keep a perspective and avoid hyperbole..the police are under Constant scrutiny every time they slap somebody or put the cuffs on too tight in egypt they gang rape cnn reporters you know? it could be worse just sayin

crybabies

this is religion

YOU SUCK BROWNBACK! YOU SUCK BIG HAIRY ONES!

"How Could This Happen in America?" Why Police Are Treating Americans Like Military Threats

"How could this happen in America?"

"Is this still my country?"

thank who?

evolution flat world and the holocaust

governments should be afraid of their people

worlds biggest hypocrite

being human

HONESTLY THE REASON I AVOID THESE THINGS AND HAVE FOR 30 YEARS NOW

thats the way ya do it

STILL LIVE FEED

opera aint over

till the fat lady sings

IS THE PARTY OVER??

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A solitary Occupy Wall Street protestor holds a sign outside a nearly empty Zuccotti Park, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011, in New York.
OR WHAT?

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nero fiddle rome burns

"Sexual Harassment? What on Earth is That?"

Anyway, on to her argument this weekend in the classic Roiphe vein, denouncing the fuss over the Herman Cain harassment allegations. She writes, essentially, that sexual harassment laws mean that dirty jokes have been criminalized, no one can have any fun at work, and the long arm of the law now prohibits flirty, bold women (presumably like herself!) from parrying innuendo for innuendo. Instead, in a world as bleak as 1984's dystopia, all would-be wits must become silent desk-drones lest they and their repartee-partners be hauled off in chains and booked at their local precinct.

oops

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PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE AFRAID OF THEIR GOVERNMENTS

“We saw events that we found extremely troubling, and which violated provisions of Oakland's own crowd control policy,” Linda Lye, a staff attorney with ACLU of Northern California told AlterNet.

Senate Bill 5 is dead.

Anti-Labor Forces Taken Aback; Strong-Arm Tactics and Dirty Tricks Marked Campaign

big brother IS WATCHING YOU!

Tea Party Supporter Hurls An Epithet At Elizabeth Warren

oakland Police Violence Raises the Stakes for the OWS Movement

you say you want a revolution?

well you know?

Live Blog: OWS Oakland to Take Over City in First General Strike in 65 Years

If OWS succeeds in pulling off the first general strike in 65 years, it will be a potent shot fired at the 1%.

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and i just had to laugh

As OWS seeps further into pop culture, these are ever-pressing questions. Here's why we're feeling optimistic about it.MTV's Occupy Wall Street Shows: Horrifying Co-Option or Great Publicity?

Occupy Updates: NYPD Takes Generators as Temps Drop, Threatens to Sue OWS; Oakland Mayor Says No Camping Overnight

URGENT - Police just forceably removed all our generators! Shame! #OWS

We need replacement generators. #NYPD took all, even bio-diesel! #needsoftheoccupiers #ows

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. John F. Kennedy, In a speech at the White House, 1962

The violent police assault on Occupy protesters in Oakland left Iraq War Veteran Scott Olsen in critical condition with a cracked skull and hundred of others injured and sick. This is unacceptable. It’s time for Oakland Mayor Jean Quan to do the right thing.


Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy, In a speech at the White House, 1962
35th president of US 1961-1963 (1917 - 1963)

Oakland Police Violence Raises the Stakes for the OWS Movement

“rampant excessive force.” According to the observer, one protester suffered a head injury in the melee, and two more ended up with broken hands.

panic on the streets of Oakland

oink

From the Middle East to midtown Manhattan, the humble cellphone camera is changing the way we view dissent.

Civil rights leaders brought energy and activists from Liberty Plaza to Harlem in an attempt to fight NYPD's racial profiling and brutality.

people should not be afraid of their government governments should be afraid of their people
“My first thoughts after seeing five white women get pepper-sprayed in the face was, what would they have done to a black man?" mused one man at the Harlem rally.

progress

“What Did We Actually Do Right?”

go hard hats

ABOUT TIME

SCREW YOU GUYS WERE GOING HOME !

They become the guards of the system, buffers between the upper and lower classes. If they stop obeying, the system falls.”

How Can We Rouse Police and Other Protectors of the Corporatocracy -- "Guards" of the Status Quo -- to Join the OWS Rebellion ?
Police, teachers, the corporate press, mental health professionals -- the guards of the system -- are given small rewards to pacify and control the population.

comparisons? is this fair?

what do you think?

what good does it do?

the issue is to make a market economy work for the people

the argument over socialism is decades too late the issue is making markets work for the people

the pepper spray just seems totally unnecessary, the only conclusion i can come to is they enjoy watching helpless people scream

Why Danes Are So Much Happier Than Americans

So, we're not these 'holy people' who can manage everything, we just have different ethics. We don't subsidize corn like you do, and also, there is a 25% VAT. And it's socially acceptable to leave work at around 4 or 5 o'clock and pick up your kids from school, go home, share a family meal. From a management point of view, if people have a nice family life, they'll be more productive.

5 New Rules for an Economy That Works

As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.

“NYPD! NYPD! JP Morgan doesn’t give a f*ck about you!”

“NYPD! NYPD! JP Morgan doesn’t give a f*ck about you!”

Sex Work to Pay Off College Loans? How the College Debt Racket Sucks Young People Dry -- And Led Many to Occupy Wall St.

Student loan debtor: "Kids are told to get this expensive degree and you’ll get a job. You end up owing too much and owning nothing."

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But now Americans are fighting back and there's no telling where Occupy Wall Street can lead.

October 6, 2011 |



When you climb out of the subway at Wall Street, you might wonder why there are no protestors in the cavernous alley by the stock exchange. That’s because since 9/11, Wall Street has been barricaded shut to prevent possible attacks. But up the block at Zuccotti Park between Liberty and Cedar streets, west of Broadway, the party’s on

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'via Blog this'

If Top 1% Hadn't Ripped Off Trillions, You'd Likely Be Making Thousands of Dollars More Right Now

October 5, 2011

The corporate media appear to be obsessed with the idea that the Occupy Wall Street movement doesn't have a cohesive message. Of course, that misses the point: as Nathan Schneider wrote in Yes! magazine, “More than demanding any particular policy proposal, the occupation is reminding Wall Street what real democracy looks like: a discussion among people, not a contest of money.”

This Is Only Getting Bigger: 20,000 Rally in New York to Support Occupy Wall Street
Despite another clash with police, the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to gain support as unions and community groups march in solidarity.

panic on the streets of cleveland

The Real Reason Why Police Cage Peaceful Protestors

panic on the streets of london

As Professor Elizabeth Warren has explained, “There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody…Part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”

More and more often, that is not occurring, giving the protesters ample reason to take to the streets.

be there or be reactionary

just how do THEY do it???

and they get paid for doing this

Labor Movement Rolls Into Wall Street Occupation
Occupy Wall Street seems to be following the trajectory of grassroots organizing: a spark of protest led by younger activists, followed by the support of labor organizations.

fight back

what could go wrong??

people should not be afraid of their governments

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Why are people occupying Wall Street?

With No Future Visible, Young Activists Have Few Options but to "Occupy Wall Street"
Is it really surprising that young protesters on Wall Street and around the world would like to have a word with the financial magnates who stole their future?

free speech

kids , this is like berlin in 32, no kidding

Ron Paul, Rick Perry and Other Right Wingers Want to Turn Back the Clock to 1900 -- What Was Life Like Back Then?

Thank goodness for the progressive era, the New Deal and the Great Society, and heaven (or the founders) help us if we allow the demolition of their gains.

What Awful Reality TV and Suburban Living Have to Do With the Tea Party's Lack of Empathy

Republican candidates know this about their base: more than their supposed love of Jesus or the Founding Fathers, more than any coherent principled conservativism, more even than the strong streak of bigotry running through the Tea Party is this gleeful “screw you” attitude.

The Call to Occupy Wall Street Resonates Around the World

On Saturday 17 September, many of us watched in awe as 5,000 Americans descended on to the financial district of lower Manhattan, waved signs, unfurled banners, beat drums, chanted slogans and proceeded to walk towards the "financial Gomorrah" of the nation. They vowed to "occupy Wall Street" and to "bring justice to the bankers", but the New York police thwarted their efforts temporarily, locking down the symbolic street with barricades and checkpoints.

Undeterred, protesters walked laps around the area before holding a people's assembly and setting up a semi-permanent protest encampment in a park on Liberty Street, a stone's throw from Wall Street and a block from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

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Professors offer more than $10,000 for proof that Bachmann’s story about HPV is true

"'These types of messages in this climate have the capacity to do enormous public health harm,'" Miles said of why he made the offer. 'The woman, assuming she exists, put this claim into the public domain and it's an extremely serious claim and it deserves to be analyzed.'"

Cold-hearted libertarians

The trick is, to realize this whole "freedom" thing is a con, somehow we have allowed very unwell but clever people to convince us liberty is
unequivocally tied to socio pathology and thats okay

told you so

Ron Paul Wasn't Joking About Letting Uninsured People Die -- His Uninsured Staffer Died of Pneumonia

“It was stunning. My first reaction is how far have we degenerated as a society?” said NNU Co-President Jean Ross, RN who said she was watching the debate.

The nurses union also notes:

“Healthcare should be a right for everyone, not just a privilege for the few, a point nurses would debate with anyone,” said Ross.

Ross said she was also disturbed by Paul’s comment about “freedom.”

“Abandoning people is not freedom,” said Ross, especially those without the resources to buy increasingly expensive private insurance. "That isn’t what I hear from my patients or their families.”

Are Jobs on Their Way to Becoming Obsolete? And Is That a Good Thing?

“[W]e are attempting to use the logic of a scarce marketplace to negotiate things that are actually in abundance. What we lack is not employment, but a way of fairly distributing the bounty we have generated through our technologies, and a way of creating meaning in a world that has already produced far too much stuff.”

This is the question, then: How do we solve this problem?

The Truth About Rick Perry's Controversial Social Security Remarks

This is the same sentiment, which many progressives interpret as blatant hypocrisy or selfishness, that led so many conservative seniors to adamantly oppose ObamaCare while demanding no cuts in Medicare--or even because they believed extending health coverage to the uninsured would directly lead to Medicare cuts.

The fact that Social Security, and to an even greater extent Medicare, in fact do represent a redistribution of money from taxpayers to most if not all beneficiaries has not shaken the iron conviction of many seniors that the programs are fundamentally different from "welfare" in any form.

So ideologues like Perry who have identified Social Security and Medicare as just part of the vast march to socialism during the twentieth century are in danger of an attack that may conventionally look like it's coming from "the left" but may actually threaten them most among staunch conservatives who think federal austerity measures should strictly come out of the hide of "those people" who haven't "earned" their benefits--you know, younger people, poorer people, darker people.

Rick Perry’s Vasectomy: The Governor's Reliance on What He Denies to His Fellow Texans

Rick Perry has only two children?! As the biographical information flashed by on television during a recent debate of Republican presidential hopefuls, it was strangely incongruous to see that the rising star of the religious right was so woefully behind his competitors. Rick Santorum and Jon Hunstman led the pack with seven kids each, followed by Ron Paul, Mitt Romney and Michelle Bachman with five (and the 23 children she had fostered). To be sure, Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain also had a paltry two, but they, unlike Perry, were not considered to be the new favorite of the social conservative wing of the Republican. Recent polls show Perry supplanting Bachman in that role, not withstanding her impressive numbers.

Military Officials Ignored Cheney’s 9/11 Shoot-down Order

Newly published audio this week reveals that Vice President Dick Cheney's infamous Sept. 11, 2001 order to shoot down rogue civilian aircraft was ignored by military officials, who instead ordered pilots to only identify suspect aircraft.

The Religious Right Sugar-Daddy Who Brought Us Rick Perry

Okay this is my take, Perry called social security a PONZI SCHEME! no other republican has had the delusional gall to attack a program the vast majority of americans want to fix not abolish, this is the man to target..politically of course.

How Rick Perry Has Been on the Public Dole His Whole Life

Interestingly, even his tea-partyish hatred -- nay, loathing! -- of big government's intrusion into the lives of ordinary citizens turns out to be just another Perry Tale. In fact, there would be no Rick Perry without the steady "intrusion" of government into his life.



Local taxpayers in Haskell County put him through their public school system -- for free. He and his family were dry-land cotton farmers, and federal taxpayers helped support them with thousands of dollars in crop subsidies -- Perry personally took $80,000 in farm payments.



State and federal taxpayers financed his college education at Texas A&M, even giving him the extracurricular opportunity to be a cheerleader. Upon graduation, he spent four years on the federal payroll as an Air Force transport pilot who never did any combat duty.



Then, in 1984, Perry hit the mother lode of government pay by moving into elected office -- squatting there for 27 years and counting. In addition to getting regular paychecks from taxpayers for nearly three decades as a state representative, agriculture commissioner, lieutenant governor and governor, he also receives platinum-level health care coverage and a generous pension from the state, plus $10,000 a month for renting a luxury suburban home, a covey of political and personal aides and even a publicly paid subscription to Food & Wine magazine.

dont question authority defy it

A teen-age girl says a Jackson County police officer forced her to give him oral sex in his squad car after he found her and some friends in a park after curfew. And she says that assault is just the tip of the iceberg of a pattern of sexual deviancy by Jackson County police officers...