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The patriarchy strikes back; it is bestial, it is brutal. It is Moloch, and it is consuming its daughters.

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From the PBS Newshour, a story so frightful that it will shake your humanity to the core, in horror that your species includes amongst it the sort who would perpetrate the foul crime described.

 

Briefly, in a spasm of rage mimiced (it is estimated) 5000 times each year, a family of rich Pakistanis stalked and murdered its daughter and grandchildren.  Her crime--she married a poor man.

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Profound Intimidation of Israel Lobby & Chuck Hagel

The U.S., supposedly the world’s only “superpower” with a defense budget over a trillion dollars this year (according to Jim Lobe greater than the combined budgets of the 10 next-most powerful militaries), recently held confirmation hearings conducted by its Senate Armed Services Committee with former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Defense. Read below the fold...

Obama’s Continuing ‘Garden Path’ to Fascism

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I wonder if Obama’s face will be carved into Mount Rushmore. Has the universe seriously become that cruelly surreal and Orwellian?

I think so.

A few days ago when I saw Obama’s likeness photoshopped onto Mount Rushmore on Al Sharpton’s show it made bitter bile burn my throat and choke me.

I then managed to scream and announce to a brother and nephew that if or when Obama ended up memorialized in such a way that would be the day I moved to another country.

“Where will you move to?” my nephew asked. Read below the fold...

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Nancy Pelosi sells us out

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Nancy Pelosi Predicts 'Democrats Will Stick With The President' On Fiscal Cliff Deal

"Well, there is a lot of understandable resistance to the chained CPI idea," Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) told The Huffington Post in a phone interview. "I think people are upset with that provision, but they want to see the overall agreement. I think everyone wants to see the final package and then weigh in."

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A New Zealand View on Black Friday

Stuff.co.nz compares America’s Black Friday to “something you might see might see amid a humanitarian crisis, a war or in the aftermath of a natural disaster.”

They link to a video which originally appeared on the Sydney Morning Herald website (the Australian accent is a giveaway): http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/79...

Read full article here: Stampedes and gun threats during Black Friday

Cross posted at The Most Revolutionary Act and Open Salon Read below the fold...

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Marie Antoinette speaks out about the greed of the peasants

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Goldman Sachs CEO: Entitlements must be contained

BLANKFEIN: You're going to have to undoubtedly do something to lower people's expectations -- the entitlements and what people think that they're going to get, because it's not going to -- they're not going to get it.

PELLEY: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid?

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Volcker Asserts US Must Trim Living Standard [The New York Times, October 17, 1979]

[Hat Tip Radio Show Host Thom Hartmann For Mentioning This Article Several Years Ago--Finally Found It!]

Just thought that it might be of interest. Today's "Grand Bargain" is just the culmination of years of planning by Washington's elite to lower Americans' standard of living. Read below the fold...

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Politics of Crony-Cowardism Landslides Politics of Courage!

“All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.” Gandhi

The majority of American voters compromised on fundamentals on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. They returned Obama to the seat of presidential power.

The Obama machine even managed to get Daniel Ellsberg and Bruce Springsteen to crony up for Obama.

Obama the war criminal. Obama the white collar corporate criminal.

Obama deserved impeachment long before this 2012 election. But we are living in what David Brooks labeled Post-Morality America. Read below the fold...

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Two of My "Tweets" Offended RT Live. I Can't Imagine Why.

I suppose these remarks could be considered not particularly constructive, but deserving of "banning?"

The one about the New Mexico Democrats was in response to Johnson bragging that 2/3's of the Democrats in New Mexico voted for him (for Governor). That was after he expounded on being the equivalent of 'a severe fiscal conservative.'

The second Tweet observes that "it took a Russian network to present the debate,." I thought that Tweet was fairly innocuous.

https://twitter.com/RestOfTheStory3/status/265656483692306432

and

https://twitter.com/RestOfTheStory3/status/265656213751091200

In my defense, I just figured out tonight how to use a "hash tag" to participate in a live Twitter feed. Guess I'd better learn to keep my sarcasm to myself. LOL! Read below the fold...

Someone 'should' do this

Saw 'The Madwoman of Chailliot' 'The Madwoman of Chailliot' last night and wish I had the graphics skills to lift the 'trial' SOLILOQUY(2nd MerriWeb definition) performed by Danny Kaye as the 'ragpicker' from the film and then substitute Romney for Danny Kaye in the graphic.
It is truly a perfect riposte to the Repub's rant about 'success' and 'business' and the last summation by Kaye is 'on point'(legalistic term meaning "Directly applicable or dispositive of the matter under consideration")

And I don't think doing such would encounter any copyright hassles as such would be considered sarcastic commentary of a parody. Read below the fold...

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Why Mass Citizen Indifference to the US Police State Monster?

James Petras and Robin Eastman Abaya in “The Rise of the Police State and the Absence of Mass Opposition” take on the tragic phenomenon of our ever-expanding police state first under Bush and now Obama, along with why so many Americans have remained, especially under Obama, so very passive about the ominous threat to all of us and/or our progeny. Read below the fold...

Former Progressive Blog Wacks Out on Zimmermania!

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TalkLeft until recently was a normal center-left board, but ever since George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin in self-defense (Yeah, right.), the site and its owner have zealously pursued all aspects of the case. Front-page entries now include:

Zimmerman Investigator felt Peer Pressure to Charge
O'Mara Requests New Judge in George Zimmerman Case
Zimmerman Open Thread

And her latest

Tuesday Night Open Thread

has this fascinating intro: Read below the fold...

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