All user taxes should be eliminated and replaced by progressive income taxes and asset taxes. Working class people who make less than 30K should pay zero taxes.
We all know that the software industry lobbyists are paying off our treacherous politicians, and we know that they are paying the media to run articles about these bogus shortages of programmers.
But is the software industry paying writers to come here and post on threads like this on Slashdot?
Which posters are the industry shills on this thread?
Holpfully, this dig will confirm that the first people in America were not the ancestors of the current Native Americans, but of another race, so to speak.
It appears that the first homo sapiens settlers of Asia and of North America were related to some of the Australian aborigines, specfically, the Murrayians, which were a mix that included a protocaucasoid type.
You can see a picture of what these amazing people may have looked like here.
THey are also related to the Ainu of Japan.
They conquered Asia, Indonesia, Australia and then the Americas long before the ancestors of the present Asians moved across the Bering Straits.
Traces of them have been found in the Americas, however. The Kennewick man was likely related to them. In the next year or two, new research out of mexico will likely confirm their presence. Some traces of the typical Murrayian skeletal features (but their genetics) have been seen in current (or recent) native Americans in Baja California and Tierra Del Fuego (see here for more.
THey may have been the first homo sapiens out of Africa. However the Negritos may have been before them.
And no low income person should pay ANY type of tax... In a capitalist system like ours, the top 50% should be able to pay all taxes for everything. After all, they have like 85% of the wealth.
And you wrote:
The problem with that is that the idea, by design, would encourage a further separation of the classes, or even a secession. It would help destroy the balance of power in the country (and it's bad enough already).
Think about it, the rich feel elite enough as it is, if they're the ones that paid all the taxes,
Who care what they feel? When you take 60-70% of their incomes it REDUCES THEIR POWER. They still have enough money to buy mansions and fancy cars, but they do not then after taxes have enough to manipulate the voters and the govt through media propaganda. There has been a reduction in income tax in the last 25 years (from 70% to about 5-10% for most of the truly wealthy, mainly due to an outright drop in top tax rates and an increase in loopholes. This has given the rich (and the corporations, their surrogates) much more money, obviously, and they have used it to wreak havoc in America, busting unions, outsourcing jobs, increasing immigration, buying the American govt almost outright.
I say disempower them. Cut their nuts off--neuter 'em!
All taxes should be income-based. No usage or consumption taxes of any kind. And no low income person should pay ANY type of tax.
In a capitalist system like ours, the top 50% should be able to pay all taxes for everything. After all, they have like 85% of the wealth.
If you believe as I do, let's organize and focus our power to change the system. See my sig for more.
Or simply make me one of your Slashdot "friends" via the "Relation" operator on my slashdot page. As more Americans get connected, we progressives can organize together to change America.
This nonsense can be laid at the foot of corporatism. Corporatism is not only the driving force behind this latest bit of corporate slavery, but it is also behind the lack of universal healthcare in American (about the only industrialized nation not to have it), and the war machine that has been creating bloody, murderous unnecessary wars since after WW2. It is also why this country is going backwards while countries like Sweden and Denmark and Belgium are going forward.
Now, you may say, Oh, it is the Republicans doing this. Well, maybe they are in the lead, but it is really the Democrat's fault for going along with it.
I say, the way to stop Corporatism is not to attack the lead dog pulling the sled (the Republicans), but instead to starve out the party that is supposedly the opposition--the Democrats.
Now, I am a hardcore liberal, a lefty. But I am no longer voting for Democrats, except in exceptional cases. Instead, I will vote for Republicans, in order to put the Democrats out of power compeletely. I will vote Green Party when the race is not close.
Once the Democrats are out of power almost completely, then it will be a lot easier to reform the party as a true leftist party.
STOP VOTING DEMOCRAT, MY FELLOW LIBERALS!
Stiry of Atlantis was an allegory; it was not real
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Atlantis NEVER existed!
From
http://skepdic.com/atlantis.html >>>>>>>>>>> Atl antis is a legendary island in the Atlantic, west of Gibraltar, that sunk beneath the sea during a violent eruption of earthquakes and floods some 9,000 years before Plato wrote about it in his Timaeus and Critias. In a discussion of utopian societies, Plato claims that Egyptian priests told Solon about Atlantis. Plato was not describing a real place any more than his allegory of the cave describes a real cave. The purpose of Atlantis is to express a moral message in a discussion of ideal societies, a favorite theme of his. The fact that nobody in Greece for 9,000 years had mentioned a battle between Athens and Atlantis should serve as a clue that Plato was not talking about a real place or battle. Nevertheless, Plato is often cited as the primary source for the reality of a place on earth called Atlantis. Here is what the Egyptian priest allegedly told Solon:
Many great and wonderful deeds are recorded of your state in our histories. But one of them exceeds all the rest in greatness and valour. For these histories tell of a mighty power which unprovoked made an expedition against the whole of Europe and Asia, and to which your city put an end. This power came forth out of the Atlantic Ocean, for in those days the Atlantic was navigable; and there was an island situated in front of the straits which are by you called the Pillars of Heracles; the island was larger than Libya and Asia put together, and was the way to other islands, and from these you might pass to the whole of the opposite continent which surrounded the true ocean; for this sea which is within the Straits of Heracles is only a harbour, having a narrow entrance, but that other is a real sea, and the surrounding land may be most truly called a boundless continent.
Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent, and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia. This vast power, gathered into one, endeavoured to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits; and then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind. She was pre-eminent in courage and military skill, and was the leader of the Hellenes. And when the rest fell off from her, being compelled to stand alone, after having undergone the very extremity of danger, she defeated and triumphed over the invaders, and preserved from slavery those who were not yet subjugated, and generously liberated all the rest of us who dwell within the pillars. (Timaeus)
The story is reminiscent of what Athens did against the Persians in the early 5th century BCE, but the battle with Atlantis allegedly took place in the 8th or 9th millennium BCE. It would not take much of an historical scholar to know that Athens in 9,000 BCE was either uninhabited or was occupied by very primitive people. This fact would not have concerned Plato's readers because they would have understood that he was not giving them an historical account of a real city. To assume, as many believers in Atlantis do, that there is a parallel between Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Plato's Critias and Timaeus is simply absurd. And those who think that just as Schliemann found Troy so too will we someday crack Plato's code and find Atlantis are drawing an analogy where they should be drawing the curtains. Plato's purpose was not to pass on stories, but to create stories to teach moral lessons. What can we expect next from these lost scholars? A search for the grave of Cecrops, the serpent-tailed first king of Athens? The discovery of the true trident of Poseidon?....
They are too lazy to actually do any real research, and the GOp probably wanted to dampen any bnadwagon effect, and fed the media that no-youth-vote spin, and the media reported it, like the good little lapdogs they are.....
You wrote: Anyone get the feeling the uber rich of the world are majorly screwing the middle-class and trying to make the divide bigger.
Maybe come next election, the people should vote out all the corporate ho's in congress, senate and the white house. It's time the people get represented, instead of getting shafted. Most of the time projects fail because of bad managers. Who are the bad managers? The guys at the top define the culture and it goes down from there. Those people come from rich families with lots of inherited wealth. So while these idiot asswipes fire a bunch of workers for cheaper workers, they double their own salaries.
throughout history, it's always been a struggle between the rich and poor. any pretense otherwise is wishful thinking. The uber rich can get richer by farming out the work to other countries./rant.
I think you have it exactly right. This article no doubt is a product conceived and created in some corporate think tank, designed to be a smoke screen, create some sort of wedge between sets of Americans. Just another foul product of the rightwing propaganda machine, funded by billions of dollars from billionaires and megacorporations. The rightwing propaganda machine consists mainly of think tanks and foundations (Heritage, Cato, American Enterprise Institute, et al.), and has thousands of scholars, writers, media consultants, etc, in its pay.
What is really sad is that you seem to be the only one here who has seen this article for what it is.
See my homepage (via my sig) for more on the rightwing propaganda machine.
So yes I agree that people should save whenever possible. But for those 35-55 year olds out there that have been "downsized", it is not reasonable to expect them to become farmers overnight.
It's all good for the upper income types and the propertied Americans and the megacorporations. As long as they have the advantage of power, wealth, and other advantages, these ups and downs and even economic depressions don't really affect them too drastically. In fact, profits are higher than ever. The era of slavery and indentured servitude was great for profit--for the slaveowners.
The sad part of all this is that if Kerry would have been smart, he would have played this issue up and made this his core issue. In my opinion he didn't and that is why he lost. Well that and the fact that his past haunted him.
I am a leftist, but I am glad that Kerry lost, even though I was devastated by Bush's victory. Kerry does not want to make too big a fuss about this, and neither do any of the other democrats. I am not sure why. Maybe they are afraid they would awaken a sleeping tiger. They really do not want to rock the boat. After all, why would they want to alter the status quo? They are on top of the world!
Now that kerry has lost, I hope the Democrats fall further out of power in 2006. That might cause them to move back to the left, economically left, that is.....
I have reinstalled FF. I uninstalled it because it seems to have a problem with multiple simultaneous downloads of tabbed pages. We will see how this version holds up. I can tell right away that this version is much faster. It seems to require less memery?
you wrote: Sure, people don't go bankrupt from medical costs in Europe-- they just die while waiting months and months for operations that are diagnosed and taken care of in a week or so here.
Nonsense. I looked into it myself. For elective surgery they wait longer. But for nonelective, the wait is about the same. If our system is so great, why do our next door neighbors Canada prefer their universal healthcare to ours by over 90%?
And they don't get out of school and have to take a job at McDonald's-- they get out of school and don't have a job at all (have you compared unemployment rates between the US and Europe recently? 5.5% or so in the US, 8% in France, 10% in Germany).
But they count everyone who is looking for a job. And over there, if you do not have a job, you get paid by the state; a pretty good check, too, and unemployment or welfare can last for many years or even decades there. But after 6 months or so, we Americans are on our own. And then America no longer counts you in the stats. So our REAL unemployment rate is just as high as in Europe.
And in such wonderful places like France and many places in Europe, there is widespread and open anti-Semitism. Yep, Europe is quite the place to be. (/sarcasm)
Nonsense. And at least they have not killed 10,000 or more innocent civilians in an illegal war.
You got it. When I was a production assistant intern for the morning new show for a CBS affiliate, that was the first thing I did when I got into the station ni the AM---I "ripped the wires", as they say in the the parlance of teevee newsland. THe printer would print out reams of AP stories, and I would rip them into individual story pieces.
THen the producer and I would choose several for the news, and I would condense them into teevee newspeak. So, a good chunk of teevee news (and of course newspaper news) is simply AP news.
And the AP is the biggest, fattest hog in the status quo establishment media. They go back into the 1800's or thereabouts. The Associated Press is Pure Evil, condensed down through the decades....
Big Money is relative. And the biggest money is always looking out for the status quo because it is always owned by or funded mostly by the rich, the powerful, the megacorps, etc. Thus, after any media system has reached Steady State/Equilibrium, then whenever you find BigMoney media, you have, by definition, found No Real Journalism.
Real Journalism in a steady state system exists only on the edges, the boundaries, the shoestring operations. Look there for real political debate, real discussion of the issues.
CBS and NBC, ABC, CNN, Faux News, et all are nothing both mouthpieces for the status quo. THey are the means for maintaining the stranglehold of the rich and the corporations on the rest of America. There is more real journalism on ANY politics blog that on CBS over the course of the last DECADE.
Stop spending so much money on the war machine, and start spending that money on healthcare for all citizens, and funding basic biomedical research! You people are all dying, and you let these politicians spend our blood sweat and tears on needless war.....
THe Nation certainly is leftwing in America. But in Western Europe they are centrist.
And in most western european countries, all citizens are entitled to healthcare. Here in America. 45 million go without, and someone goes bankrupt from medical costs about once every seconds (or thereabouts). In NW Europe, students do not get out of school loaded down with tens of thousands of dollars in debt, and have to work at McDonalds after that. In most NW Europe countries, their tax dollars go to things like state funded child care and education, instead of killing thousands of innocent civilians.....eewwww, how extremist!
The campaigns are not what is important. Before you can get a good populist candidate, one who favors egalitarian change, you need to get the right set of ideas (memeset) out into the political "air". The rightwing wealthy and the mega corporations have already done that over the last 30 years using their think tanks and foundations. See here:
So before you can get a "candidate of the people" you need to have the voters already aware of a set of ideas that reflect his politics. What you need is a Leftwing Meme Propagation Machine which needs to be up and running YEARS before the campaign.
If you want to get a real liberal (as opposed to faux liberals like Kerry, Dean, Edwards, et al., you need to sell the idea of progressive politics to the public.
Rightwingers here on/. will no doubt tell me that CBS, NBC, PBS, et al are the leftwing meme propagation machine. I used to think so, too. But I was wrong, and so are you. Economically Leftism and social leftism are two different things. One feeds the bulldog, and the other does not.
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When is it going to dawn on Americans that we are FAR from being as free as our masters tell us we are?
All user taxes should be eliminated and replaced by progressive income taxes and asset taxes. Working class people who make less than 30K should pay zero taxes.
We all know that the software industry lobbyists are paying off our treacherous politicians, and we know that they are paying the media to run articles about these bogus shortages of programmers.
But is the software industry paying writers to come here and post on threads like this on Slashdot?
Which posters are the industry shills on this thread?
Taiwan also have nationalized healthcare. Medical care is very cheap there.
I hope you see that many nations are organized to better the quality of life of the CITIZEN, and not organized to maximize the profit of the investor.
Other nations are organized like livestock ranches built for the benefit of the investor.
Guess how America is organized....
Holpfully, this dig will confirm that the first people in America were not the ancestors of the current Native Americans, but of another race, so to speak.
It appears that the first homo sapiens settlers of Asia and of North America were related to some of the Australian aborigines, specfically, the Murrayians, which were a mix that included a protocaucasoid type.
You can see a picture of what these amazing people may have looked like here.
THey are also related to the Ainu of Japan.
They conquered Asia, Indonesia, Australia and then the Americas long before the ancestors of the present Asians moved across the Bering Straits.
Traces of them have been found in the Americas, however. The Kennewick man was likely related to them. In the next year or two, new research out of mexico will likely confirm their presence. Some traces of the typical Murrayian skeletal features (but their genetics) have been seen in current (or recent) native Americans in Baja California and Tierra Del Fuego (see here for more.
THey may have been the first homo sapiens out of Africa. However the Negritos may have been before them.
I wrote:
And no low income person should pay ANY type of tax... In a capitalist system like ours, the top 50% should be able to pay all taxes for everything. After all, they have like 85% of the wealth.
And you wrote:
The problem with that is that the idea, by design, would encourage a further separation of the classes, or even a secession. It would help destroy the balance of power in the country (and it's bad enough already).
Think about it, the rich feel elite enough as it is, if they're the ones that paid all the taxes,
Who care what they feel? When you take 60-70% of their incomes it REDUCES THEIR POWER. They still have enough money to buy mansions and fancy cars, but they do not then after taxes have enough to manipulate the voters and the govt through media propaganda. There has been a reduction in income tax in the last 25 years (from 70% to about 5-10% for most of the truly wealthy, mainly due to an outright drop in top tax rates and an increase in loopholes. This has given the rich (and the corporations, their surrogates) much more money, obviously, and they have used it to wreak havoc in America, busting unions, outsourcing jobs, increasing immigration, buying the American govt almost outright.
I say disempower them. Cut their nuts off--neuter 'em!
All taxes should be income-based. No usage or consumption taxes of any kind. And no low income person should pay ANY type of tax.
In a capitalist system like ours, the top 50% should be able to pay all taxes for everything. After all, they have like 85% of the wealth.
If you believe as I do, let's organize and focus our power to change the system. See my sig for more.
Or simply make me one of your Slashdot "friends" via the "Relation" operator on my slashdot page. As more Americans get connected, we progressives can organize together to change America.
This nonsense can be laid at the foot of corporatism. Corporatism is not only the driving force behind this latest bit of corporate slavery, but it is also behind the lack of universal healthcare in American (about the only industrialized nation not to have it), and the war machine that has been creating bloody, murderous unnecessary wars since after WW2. It is also why this country is going backwards while countries like Sweden and Denmark and Belgium are going forward.
Now, you may say, Oh, it is the Republicans doing this. Well, maybe they are in the lead, but it is really the Democrat's fault for going along with it.
I say, the way to stop Corporatism is not to attack the lead dog pulling the sled (the Republicans), but instead to starve out the party that is supposedly the opposition--the Democrats.
Now, I am a hardcore liberal, a lefty. But I am no longer voting for Democrats, except in exceptional cases. Instead, I will vote for Republicans, in order to put the Democrats out of power compeletely. I will vote Green Party when the race is not close.
Once the Democrats are out of power almost completely, then it will be a lot easier to reform the party as a true leftist party.
STOP VOTING DEMOCRAT, MY FELLOW LIBERALS!
Atlantis NEVER existed!
l antis is a legendary island in the Atlantic, west of Gibraltar, that sunk beneath the sea during a violent eruption of earthquakes and floods some 9,000 years before Plato wrote about it in his Timaeus and Critias. In a discussion of utopian societies, Plato claims that Egyptian priests told Solon about Atlantis. Plato was not describing a real place any more than his allegory of the cave describes a real cave. The purpose of Atlantis is to express a moral message in a discussion of ideal societies, a favorite theme of his. The fact that nobody in Greece for 9,000 years had mentioned a battle between Athens and Atlantis should serve as a clue that Plato was not talking about a real place or battle. Nevertheless, Plato is often cited as the primary source for the reality of a place on earth called Atlantis. Here is what the Egyptian priest allegedly told Solon:
....
From
http://skepdic.com/atlantis.html
>>>>>>>>>>>
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Many great and wonderful deeds are recorded of your state in our histories. But one of them exceeds all the rest in greatness and valour. For these histories tell of a mighty power which unprovoked made an expedition against the whole of Europe and Asia, and to which your city put an end. This power came forth out of the Atlantic Ocean, for in those days the Atlantic was navigable; and there was an island situated in front of the straits which are by you called the Pillars of Heracles; the island was larger than Libya and Asia put together, and was the way to other islands, and from these you might pass to the whole of the opposite continent which surrounded the true ocean; for this sea which is within the Straits of Heracles is only a harbour, having a narrow entrance, but that other is a real sea, and the surrounding land may be most truly called a boundless continent.
Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent, and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia. This vast power, gathered into one, endeavoured to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits; and then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind. She was pre-eminent in courage and military skill, and was the leader of the Hellenes. And when the rest fell off from her, being compelled to stand alone, after having undergone the very extremity of danger, she defeated and triumphed over the invaders, and preserved from slavery those who were not yet subjugated, and generously liberated all the rest of us who dwell within the pillars. (Timaeus)
The story is reminiscent of what Athens did against the Persians in the early 5th century BCE, but the battle with Atlantis allegedly took place in the 8th or 9th millennium BCE. It would not take much of an historical scholar to know that Athens in 9,000 BCE was either uninhabited or was occupied by very primitive people. This fact would not have concerned Plato's readers because they would have understood that he was not giving them an historical account of a real city. To assume, as many believers in Atlantis do, that there is a parallel between Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Plato's Critias and Timaeus is simply absurd. And those who think that just as Schliemann found Troy so too will we someday crack Plato's code and find Atlantis are drawing an analogy where they should be drawing the curtains. Plato's purpose was not to pass on stories, but to create stories to teach moral lessons. What can we expect next from these lost scholars? A search for the grave of Cecrops, the serpent-tailed first king of Athens? The discovery of the true trident of Poseidon?
beware the beautiful yet powerful coils of the boa constrictor....
They are too lazy to actually do any real research, and the GOp probably wanted to dampen any bnadwagon effect, and fed the media that no-youth-vote spin, and the media reported it, like the good little lapdogs they are.....
You wrote:
/rant.
Anyone get the feeling the uber rich of the world are majorly screwing the middle-class and trying to make the divide bigger.
Maybe come next election, the people should vote out all the corporate ho's in congress, senate and the white house. It's time the people get represented, instead of getting shafted. Most of the time projects fail because of bad managers. Who are the bad managers? The guys at the top define the culture and it goes down from there. Those people come from rich families with lots of inherited wealth. So while these idiot asswipes fire a bunch of workers for cheaper workers, they double their own salaries.
throughout history, it's always been a struggle between the rich and poor. any pretense otherwise is wishful thinking. The uber rich can get richer by farming out the work to other countries.
I think you have it exactly right. This article no doubt is a product conceived and created in some corporate think tank, designed to be a smoke screen, create some sort of wedge between sets of Americans. Just another foul product of the rightwing propaganda machine, funded by billions of dollars from billionaires and megacorporations. The rightwing propaganda machine consists mainly of think tanks and foundations (Heritage, Cato, American Enterprise Institute, et al.), and has thousands of scholars, writers, media consultants, etc, in its pay.
What is really sad is that you seem to be the only one here who has seen this article for what it is.
See my homepage (via my sig) for more on the rightwing propaganda machine.
I am ashamed to have you as my fellow citizen.
That is all.
So yes I agree that people should save whenever possible. But for those 35-55 year olds out there that have been "downsized", it is not reasonable to expect them to become farmers overnight.
It's all good for the upper income types and the propertied Americans and the megacorporations. As long as they have the advantage of power, wealth, and other advantages, these ups and downs and even economic depressions don't really affect them too drastically. In fact, profits are higher than ever. The era of slavery and indentured servitude was great for profit--for the slaveowners.
The sad part of all this is that if Kerry would have been smart, he would have played this issue up and made this his core issue. In my opinion he didn't and that is why he lost. Well that and the fact that his past haunted him.
I am a leftist, but I am glad that Kerry lost, even though I was devastated by Bush's victory. Kerry does not want to make too big a fuss about this, and neither do any of the other democrats. I am not sure why. Maybe they are afraid they would awaken a sleeping tiger. They really do not want to rock the boat. After all, why would they want to alter the status quo? They are on top of the world!
Now that kerry has lost, I hope the Democrats fall further out of power in 2006. That might cause them to move back to the left, economically left, that is.....
I have reinstalled FF. I uninstalled it because it seems to have a problem with multiple simultaneous downloads of tabbed pages. We will see how this version holds up. I can tell right away that this version is much faster. It seems to require less memery?
you wrote:
Sure, people don't go bankrupt from medical costs in Europe-- they just die while waiting months and months for operations that are diagnosed and taken care of in a week or so here.
Nonsense. I looked into it myself. For elective surgery they wait longer. But for nonelective, the wait is about the same. If our system is so great, why do our next door neighbors Canada prefer their universal healthcare to ours by over 90%?
And they don't get out of school and have to take a job at McDonald's-- they get out of school and don't have a job at all (have you compared unemployment rates between the US and Europe recently? 5.5% or so in the US, 8% in France, 10% in Germany).
But they count everyone who is looking for a job. And over there, if you do not have a job, you get paid by the state; a pretty good check, too, and unemployment or welfare can last for many years or even decades there. But after 6 months or so, we Americans are on our own. And then America no longer counts you in the stats. So our REAL unemployment rate is just as high as in Europe.
And in such wonderful places like France and many places in Europe, there is widespread and open anti-Semitism. Yep, Europe is quite the place to be. (/sarcasm)
Nonsense. And at least they have not killed 10,000 or more innocent civilians in an illegal war.
You got it. When I was a production assistant intern for the morning new show for a CBS affiliate, that was the first thing I did when I got into the station ni the AM---I "ripped the wires", as they say in the the parlance of teevee newsland. THe printer would print out reams of AP stories, and I would rip them into individual story pieces.
THen the producer and I would choose several for the news, and I would condense them into teevee newspeak. So, a good chunk of teevee news (and of course newspaper news) is simply AP news.
And the AP is the biggest, fattest hog in the status quo establishment media. They go back into the 1800's or thereabouts.
The Associated Press is Pure Evil, condensed down through the decades....
Big Money is relative. And the biggest money is always looking out for the status quo because it is always owned by or funded mostly by the rich, the powerful, the megacorps, etc. Thus, after any media system has reached Steady State/Equilibrium, then whenever you find BigMoney media, you have, by definition, found No Real Journalism.
Real Journalism in a steady state system exists only on the edges, the boundaries, the shoestring operations. Look there for real political debate, real discussion of the issues.
CBS and NBC, ABC, CNN, Faux News, et all are nothing both mouthpieces for the status quo. THey are the means for maintaining the stranglehold of the rich and the corporations on the rest of America.
There is more real journalism on ANY politics blog that on CBS over the course of the last DECADE.
This is MADNESS!
What are our leaders thinking?
Please, please, raise the taxes on the rich.
Stop spending so much money on the war machine, and start spending that money on healthcare for all citizens, and funding basic biomedical research! You people are all dying, and you let these politicians spend our blood sweat and tears on needless war.....
MADNESS!
Your personality seems perfectly suited to being a rightwinger!
Here are the titles of most of your last dozen posts:
eeewww..."The Nation"??? Sunday November
That's right, you moronic ignoramuses!!!
you fucking dumbass *Wednesday June 16, 02:55PM 1 1
I'm surrounded by idiots... *Saturday June 05, @09:35AM 1 4,
Try growing a brain first *Monday May 31,
this is the problem with looney liberal leftists *Wednesday April 21, @12:31PM 1 1
THe Nation certainly is leftwing in America. But in Western Europe they are centrist.
....eewwww, how extremist!
And in most western european countries, all citizens are entitled to healthcare. Here in America. 45 million go without, and someone goes bankrupt from medical costs about once every seconds (or thereabouts). In NW Europe, students do not get out of school loaded down with tens of thousands of dollars in debt, and have to work at McDonalds after that. In most NW Europe countries, their tax dollars go to things like state funded child care and education, instead of killing thousands of innocent civilians.
The campaigns are not what is important. Before you can get a good populist candidate, one who favors egalitarian change, you need to get the right set of ideas (memeset) out into the political "air". The rightwing wealthy and the mega corporations have already done that over the last 30 years using their think tanks and foundations. See here:
w .opednews.com/kall%20starting_a_progress ive_counterpa.htm
/. will no doubt tell me that CBS, NBC, PBS, et al are the leftwing meme propagation machine. I used to think so, too. But I was wrong, and so are you. Economically Leftism and social leftism are two different things. One feeds the bulldog, and the other does not.
http://www.hnn.us/articles/1244.html
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So before you can get a "candidate of the people" you need to have the voters already aware of a set of ideas that reflect his politics. What you need is a Leftwing Meme Propagation Machine which needs to be up and running YEARS before the campaign.
If you want to get a real liberal (as opposed to faux liberals like Kerry, Dean, Edwards, et al., you need to sell the idea of progressive politics to the public.
Rightwingers here on
And then when found guilty, punish him as traitors should be punished.
You are customer B. Why did you react that way?