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ALL LINKS OPEN A NEW WINDOW!!! Click on anything below and be INSTANTLY SMARTER! WAR ON WALL ST. The Rude Pundit completely debunks Stupid Things Being Said About President Obama's Tax Plan and Why They're Stupid Stupidity Let's get one thing straight about what President Obama said yesterday about raising revenue as part of a deficit reduction plan that he submitted to the joint committee from Congress that's going to tell us all how much dog food we have to eat in order to survive the economic apocalypse: He did not just say, "Rich people pay more." What he did say was that he will "veto any bill that changes benefits for those who rely on Medicare but does not raise serious revenues by asking the wealthiest Americans or biggest corporations to pay their fair share." You got that? You can change Medicare, he said, but the rich and the huge have to pay more, too. If that's class warfare, as the GOP is howling, or warfare of any kind, it's like saying that the United States began World War II by telling the Nazis, "Okay, you can have Europe. But America is off limits." Or it's like getting a divorce and agreeing to give up the house, but you get to keep the cat and one of your kidneys. In other words, it's the least he could do, but in our turd-filled litter box of political discourse, to propose what amounts to less than what Reagan asked of the wealthy and big corporations is progressive. (By the way, you don't get the litter box with the cat.) Indeed, if anything, the motherfuckin' tea leaves are aligning towards actual class warfare in this country, as poll after poll show that a large majority of Americans think, "Well, shit, yeah, rich people can pay more. So why the fuck don't they?" If we're not back in a recession yet, but 60% or more of people believe that the wealthy should pay as much as they were paying in 2000. If Congress cuts Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security without making millionaires pay more, then they may as well get the stormtroopers ready for the actual unemployed and starving class warriors to kick some ass. Rich people like Warren Buffet and Bill Clinton understand this. Rich assholes like the dicksack from Congress who said that he's only got a few hundred thousand dollars left to feed his family think they can convince the teabag yahoos to take to the front lines for them. But none of this pierces the veil of stupid and greedy that modern conservatives live under. For example... Rude Pundit has more, MUCH more, ruder than that and distills the current situation like nobody else. Richard Wolff @ guardian.co.uk has The truth about 'class war' in America Republicans claim, in Orwellian fashion, that Obama's millionaire tax is 'class war'. The reality is that the super-rich won the war Republicans and conservatives always fight back against proposals to raise taxes on corporations and rich individuals by making two basic claims. First, such proposals amount to un-American "class warfare", pitting the working class against corporations and the rich. Second, such proposals would take money for the government that would otherwise have been invested in production and thus created jobs. Neither logic nor evidence supports either claim. The charge of class war is particularly obtuse. Consider simply these two facts. First, at the end of the second world war, for every dollar Washington raised in taxes on individuals, it raised $1.50 in taxes on business profits. Today, that ratio is very different: for every dollar Washington gets in taxes on individuals, it takes 25 cents in taxes on business. In short, the last half century has seen a massive shift of the burden of federal taxation off business and onto individuals. Second, across those 50 years, the actual shift that occurred was the opposite of the much more modest reversal proposed this week by President Obama; over the same period, the federal income tax rate on the richest individuals fell from 91% to the current 35%. Yet, Republicans and conservatives use the term "class war" for what Obama proposes – and never for what the last five decades have accomplished in shifting the tax burden from the rich and corporations to the working class. ... The final irony of loose talk about class war is this: the Republican and conservative voices opposing all tax increases for corporations and the rich thereby provoke, as Buffett intimated and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg more explicitly warned last week, a renewal of class consciousness in the US. Then, Washington might learn what class war really is. Ever wonder who will be voting on the so-called "Buffet Rule"? Here's a hint. Remember back in 2008 when JOHN "Crazy Train" MCCAIN couldn't remember where all his houses were? We let NPR's Andrea Seabrook ask and answer Who's Weighing Tax On Rich? Congress' Millionaires (via Minnesota Public Radio) The number of Americans who are millionaires is pretty low — about 1 percent of the population. (Yo Andrea! You left out a VERY IMPORTANT STATISTIC explained by Joe Stiglitz in Vanity Fair back in May Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% "The upper 1 percent of Americans are now taking in nearly a quarter of the nation’s income every year. In terms of wealth rather than income, the top 1 percent control 40 percent." -Ed.) Members of Congress who are millionaires? Nearly 50 percent. That's according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan watchdog group that tracks money in politics. Of the 435 members of the House, "244 current members of Congress are millionaires — that's about 46 percent and that includes 138 Republicans and 106 Democrats," says Center for Responsive Politics spokesman Michael Beckel. Beckel is talking about net worth, the total amount of money and assets lawmakers have, according to their own financial disclosure forms. In fact, there are probably many more millionaires in Congress, since lawmakers don't have to include the value of their family home and other details. Beckel says this wealth already makes life pretty different for lawmakers than it is for the constituents they represent. A member of Congress is more likely to be hit by the tax hike they're considering. Now the Buffett rule is not aimed at millionaires per se — but at people who earn an income of at least $1 million a year. Some in Congress come under this category too. But people much more likely to get hit by the Buffett rule? The donors. "We don't know how many political donors are millionaires, but we do know that it takes a certain amount of disposable income to make contributions," Beckel says. ... Roger Pilon of the libertarian think tank the Cato Institute says just the opposite. "They're not going to be affected or corrupted by any single small contribution," Pilon said. "In fact, the more money there is, the less potential there is for such corruption." Hoo wee what a whopper! We want some of what Pilon is smoking! Say don't the Kook Bros "earn" more than a $million/yr? And don't they fund "think tanks" like Cato and ALEC too? MICHAEL HUDSON updates on another aspect of the robosigning mortgage fraud that nearly brought down the whole shebang this time focusing on Countrywide BEFORE BofA bought them iWatch News investigative series reveals legacy of corruption that still plagues Bank of America In the summer of 2007, a team of corporate investigators sifted through mounds of paper pulled from shred bins at Countrywide Financial Corp. mortgage shops in and around Boston. By intercepting the documents before they were sliced by the shredder, the investigators were able to uncover what they believed was evidence that branch employees had used scissors, tape and Wite-Out to create fake bank statements, inflated property appraisals and other phony paperwork. Inside the heaps of paper, for example, they found mock-ups that indicated to investigators that workers had, as a matter of routine, literally cut and pasted the address for one home onto an appraisal for a completely different piece of property. Eileen Foster, the company’s new fraud investigations chief, had seen a lot of slippery behavior in her two-plus decades in the banking business. But she’d never seen anything like this. “You’re looking at it and you’re going, Oh my God, how did it get to this point?” Foster recalls. “How do you get people to go to work every day and do these things and think it’s okay?” .... We know! LET'S ASK THE S.E.C.! Remember MATT TAIBBI's SHREDDED JUSTICE: Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes? Clearly this is EVIDENCE of the same fraud culture at work. Now it looks like The Slime Team is out for NY AG Schneiderman Are Private Investigators Being Used to Intimidate New York Attorney General Schneiderman’s Staff? YVES The New York Post has a salacious story about Alisha Smith, a lawyer with the New York attorney general’s office, who is a dominatrix in her private life. Frankly, many of the skills honed by being a domme probably come in handy in litigation (such as knowing exactly how much pain and humiliation to administer when). The problem isn’t with her having a kinky private life per se; it is the allegation by the Post that she may have gotten paid for performing at S&M parties...After l’affaire Spitzer, readers in comments have repeatedly noted that Schneiderman had better be squeaky clean since he would be targeted by private investigators, as Spitzer clearly was. This Post “story” looks to have been the result of private investigators going after Schneiderman’s staff, with the intent of intimidating them and embarrassing and discrediting him. This report is even less specific than the one the Post filed on the maid who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of rape and clearly came from private investigators in the employ of DSK. .... It’s hard to see how Schneiderman can protect his staff from this sort of search for dirt. And if Smith is vindicated, she can’t sue the Post and continue in her day job (the time demands and the exposure both argue against it). So if the claim that she is taking money proves to be scurrilous, the Post and its sources are unlikely to suffer for releasing this hit job. ZEROHEDGE has a Guest Post: Why The Fed's "Silver Bullet" Won't Kill The Beast by Lance Roberts of StreetTalkLive.com Yesterday Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke pulled out the last bullet in his arsenal reaching back almost 50 years in a hope that just maybe this "silver bullet" will kill the vampiric drain of excess debt on the economy. Unfortunately, silver bullets don't kill vampires. There is more to this analogy than just the approaching Halloween season. Our problem isn't low interest rates - it is excess debt which literally drains the demand for more credit. The recent release of the NFIB Small Business Survey showed this as businesses stated that acces to credit is not an issue. "Poor sales" are their number one concern and the lack of demand on their businesses do not warrant adding on more leverage. The number of businesses currently thinking this is a "good time to expand" is at some of the lowest levels on record. Likewise, consumers, are trying to pay down debt as worries about job security, rising food and energy costs and stagnant wages reduce their desire to consume and make debt reduction a priority. The excess debt that has been accumulated over the last 30 years as interest rates were in a steady decline, lending standards were reduced and massive pools of available credit were supplied has now begun the inevitable unwinding process. Ben wrongfully believes that by lowering interest rates on longer dated maturities it will cut long-term interest rates boosting investment in both housing and business. The reality is that interest rates are already at levels twice as low as they were the last time "Operation Twist" was implemented and if the lowest rates in 50 years aren't spurring a demand for credit in the economy - it is doubtful that a further decline will do the trick. ... In reality, while the Fed still clings to failed Keynesian policies and the White House to failed "spend our way to prosperity" measures - the average American is slowly being sucked dry by declining wages and rising inflation. Those same policies combined with regulatory reform acts that are yet to be written, threats of higher taxes, poor sales and political turmoil have pushed businesses and entrepreneurs into defensive positions. Unfortunately, those entities and individuals also happen to be the only ones that actually have the ability to create jobs - not the government. And commenter LetThemEatRand counters, "No mention in this article about one of the critical reasons consumer and public debt rose so far so fast, e.g., the gutting of the Middle Class by off-shoring and the replacement of real income with debt spending to sustain a (false) living standard. The author calls for fewer regulations on business as a solution? It is the lack of any meaningful regulation including a trade policy that doesn't favor off-shoring that allows giant companies to make ever increasing profit margins and pay ever larger CEO bonuses by hiring slave labor in China and elsewhere while Western economies implode. Welcome to serfdom. "Hey serfs. The King needs fewer rules and we need you to contribue more and the King less. You good with that? I thought so."" Well said! AutomaticEarth's Ilargi explains Bernanke's Reckless Abandon What makes this so remarkable is that it should be clear to anyone with a pulse and some control of any of their senses left, that Bernanke's upcoming speech is completely inconsequential for more than a very short and fleeting moment in time. The Fed can't save our economies or banks from the upcoming recession slash depression anymore than it can send a rocketship to Andromeda. The Federal Reserve is impotent when it comes to saving the economy, even if it tries with all its might not to show it. It flaunts its fictional capacity and ability to come up with new and creative well-calculated measures to influence everything from A to Z like once upon a time the emperor flaunted his new clothes. And no matter how badly any and all of its previous measures have failed, the vast majority among us still praises the subtly elegant materials and their dream-provoking shine. We don't want reality, we want to believe. .... Well, neither QE1, nor for that matter any other of the Fed's measures of the past few years, have done anything at all to stop housing prices from plunging, to make sure people get hired again, or to make our children's futures look less bleak. And it has failed to accomplish all of this while spending on and lending to the global financial system some $10-$20 trillion in American "wealth", public funds. It’s simply not true that with different policy decisions, the day could be saved. The choices lie elsewhere: are we going to use the people's money to "save the financial system", or will we use it to alleviate the misery of the people themselves? To date, the choice Washington, Brussels et al have opted for is abundantly clear: not one choice has been made based on what is best for the people. Instead, the people are told that it’s in their best interest if their money is used to prop up failed and bankrupt institutions. And so far, the people buy this baloney. Everyone wants to believe that it's possible to be saved from hardship. Even if they are thrown step by step into hardship while being "rescued". It’s time we all understand that the interests of the financial world are diagonally opposed to our own interests. This might not have been true if a rescue were possible, but it's not. It’s not even either/or: the financial system is profoundly broke, and governments and central banks cannot fork over enough leveraged credit to make it sound again. The world of finance will have to fess up to its losses, it must default and be restructured, many of its components must disappear never to be heard from again. And the last thing that should happen is for more public funds to be thrown down the banking drain. Alas, the last thing that should happen is the only thing that does. ... Right now, the only time when one of the leading political and/or regulatory bodies in the world volunteers to give you a glimpse of reality, it's to extort ever and even more of your money. The IMF came out with a dire report this week, but only so it can argue for more stimulus (which simply means more money being transferred from the public to the private sector). The IMF represents the financial sector; it does unequivocally not represent you, no matter what claims it may make to the contrary. It's nonsense to claim that what benefits the financial sector would automatically benefit you as well. The opposite is true. To understand and process that fact, however, you will first need to figure out that the entire financial sector is indeed bankrupt. It doesn't seem to be, perhaps, at first glance, but it's not all that hard to see it for what it is. Go read the rest NOW! Here's a surprise nobody saw coming TBTF banks downgraded by Moody’s by Bankrate.com's Claes Bell From Shannon Bond at the Financial Times: Moody's downgraded the credit ratings of Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo, three of the biggest US banks, over concerns that the US government would be less likely to rescue the lenders if they faced failure.... This may sound like a bad thing, and it is, at least for investors, bondholders and depositors in excess of FDIC limits at those institutions. But it's actually a good thing from the standpoint of U.S. taxpayers. And the BBC reports French bank ratings downgraded by Moody's Credit rating agency Moody's has downgraded two French banks after reviewing their exposure to Greek debt. Credit Agricole was cut from Aa1 to Aa2 and Societe Generale from Aa2 to Aa3. A third bank, BNP Paribas, was kept on review for a possible downgrade. Quips Kai Ryssdal on Wednesday's APM Marketplace, "So here’s the question: If everybody’s downgraded — the government, big banks — is anybody downgraded? Think about that for a second." Hmmmmm. Good week for Moody's, eh? Remember last July BTV noted per the Guardian UK's Ian Traynor Greece set to default on massive debt burden, European leaders concede Viviane Reding, the EU justice commissioner, said: "Europe can't allow three private US enterprises to destroy the euro." Either their "cartel" was smashed or "independent" European and Asian ratings agencies would be set up. "We can't have a situation where a cartel of three US enterprises decides the fates of entire national economies and their citizens," she said. How's THAT workin' out for ya, Viviane? We go to Trader Mark at IBTimes.com for Roubini: It's Time for Greece to Leave the EU With its creditors demanding ever more draconian cuts in spending and growth a distant memory, Nouriel Roubini is calling on Greece to default and exit the euro. "The recent debt exchange deal Europe offered Greece was a rip-off," said Roubini in a commentary in Tuesday's Financial Times. "If you take into account the large sweeteners the plan gave to creditors, the true debt relief is close to zero." The major problem, in Roubini's view, is a lack of growth and competitiveness, which can only be overcome by currency depreciation. "A return to a national currency and a sharp depreciation would quickly restore growth and competitiveness, as it did in Argentina and many other emerging markets that abandoned their currency pegs," he said. Analysts at UBS recently estimated the cost of leaving the euro for a peripheral member of the euro zone such as Greece could cost between 40 percent to 50 percent of gross domestic product in the first year alone, but Roubini believes the situation could be managed—albeit with some heavy losses for euro zone banks. (well there is the rub Mr. Roubini - remember, banks are people too. Oh wait, that is just in the U.S.) "Overnight, the foreign liabilities of Greece's government, banks, and companies would surge," said Roubini. "Yet these problems can be overcome. Argentina did so in 2001, when it converted its dollar debts into pesos. The U.S. did something similar in 1933, when it depreciated the dollar and repealed the gold clause." You can read all of Roubini's comments at the Financial Times link (free signup to enter). We now turn our attention to Wall Street as the Arab Spring may be turning into the AMERICAN AUTUMN. First go to AdBusters.org for the genesis of this action. Then go to their homepage OccupyWallSt.org for up-to-date info. And you may catch some LIVE STREAMING at livestream.com. Plus our intrepid jen sez "Lots of links in lambert's post here. Click over to access." Occupy Wall Street Thursday which is excellent. So this is really funny. Unbelievably CLE OH's own NewsNet5 decides they're gonna send one of their Anchor Babes to see what's up with this in NYC. Watch this vid: 'Occupy Wall Street' protest website mentions Cleveland A puzzled Ellen McGregor reports "Participants say they will stay until the "one demand" is met. But it's not clear what that one demand is." Typical lazy "journalism" by the CorporoMedia. OccupyWallSt responds:
A Message From Occupied Wall Street (Day Five) This is the fifth communiqué from the 99 percent. We are occupying Wall Street.
  • On September 21st, 2011, Troy Davis, an innocent man, was murdered by the state of Georgia. Troy Davis was one of the 99 percent. Ending capital punishment is our one demand.
  • On September 21st, 2011, the richest 400 Americans owned more wealth than half of the country's population. Ending wealth inequality is our one demand.
  • On September 21st, 2011, four of our members were arrested on baseless charges. Ending police intimidation is our one demand.
  • On September 21st, 2011, we determined that Yahoo lied about occupywallst.org being in spam filters. Ending corporate censorship is our one demand.
  • On September 21st, 2011, roughly eighty percent of Americans thought the country was on the wrong track. Ending the modern gilded age is our one demand.
  • On September 21st, 2011, roughly 15% of Americans approved of the job Congress was doing. Ending political corruption is our one demand.
  • On September 21st, 2011, roughly one sixth of Americans did not have work. Ending joblessness is our one demand.
  • On September 21st, 2011, roughly one sixth of America lived in poverty. Ending poverty is our one demand.
  • On September 21st, 2011, roughly fifty million Americans were without health insurance. Ending health-profiteering is our one demand.
  • On September 21st, 2011, America had military bases in around one hundred and thirty out of one hundred and sixty-five countries. Ending American imperialism is our one demand.
  • On September 21st, 2011, America was at war with the world. Ending war is our one demand.
    On September 21st, 2011, we stood in solidarity with Madrid, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Madison, Toronto, London, Athens, Sydney, Stuttgart, Tokyo, Milan, Amsterdam, Algiers, Tel Aviv, Portland and Chicago. Soon we will stand with Phoenix, Montreal, Cleveland and Atlanta. We're still here. We are growing. We intend to stay until we see movements toward real change in our country and the world. You have fought all the wars. You have worked for all the bosses. You have wandered over all the countries. Have you harvested the fruits of your labors, the price of your victories? Does the past comfort you? Does the present smile on you? Does the future promise you anything? Have you found a piece of land where you can live like a human being and die like a human being? On these questions, on this argument, and on this theme, the struggle for existence, the people will speak. Join us.We speak as one. All of our decisions, from our choice to march on Wall Street to our decision to continue occupying Liberty Square, were decided through a consensus based process by the group, for the group. Note: Our use of the one demand is a rhetorical device. This is not an official list of demands. Click Here to learn more about how you can participate in the democratic process of choosing the "one demand".
Sounds good to us! Sign up NOW! Following up on last week's disgusting Tea Bagger reaction to letting an uninsured comatose 30-year-old man die National Nurses United released this press release: Nurses Say Letting Uninsured Patients Die Is No Laughing Matter Following Abhorrent Audience Cheers National Nurses United said the gruesome reaction from many in the audience is a reminder of the growing collapse of civil society in America, and the need for more humane policies. One such step would be to expand Medicare to cover all Americans so that no one has to be in danger of losing their life because they are uninsured. Nor is it an academic question. Nearly 45,000 deaths in the U.S. every year are associated with lack of health insurance, according to a study this year by Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Health Alliance published by the American Journal of Public Health. “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. Ross called the reaction antithetical to the very essence of nursing. “Everything we do is geared toward preventing illness, and getting people well. If no one cares whether our patients get well, what are we doing advocating for them and fighting for them?” A broader question, says NNU Executive Director RoseAnn DeMoro, is “one of national identity: Do we have — or even want — a country, a nation of common purpose and support — or just a collection of amoral individuals?” NNU Co-President Deborah Burger, RN said the idea of “deciding whether someone deserves medical treatment based on their pocket book is abhorrent. Does that mean we should take someone off life support if they are in an accident just because they are uninsured? For nurses that would be unconscionable, and should not be part of any society I want to be in.” “Healthcare should be a right for everyone, not just a privilege for the few, a point nurses would debate with anyone,” said Ross. Deborah Burger RN and co-president of the California Nurses Association and National Nurses United pens more at The Nation A Nation Worried Sick New research from Janet Currie of Princeton and Erdal Tekin of Georgia State asserts a direct correlation between foreclosure rates and health declines in four states. For every 100 foreclosures there was a 7.2% rise in ER visits and hospitalizations for hypertension, an 8.1 percent increase for diabetes and 12 percent more visits related to anxiety among 20-49 year olds. We hear the corporate mantra—“we have no confidence” – and it makes us sick. “No confidence” in a government that cannot act because revenue is gone, used up to bailout financial institutions? The same institutions paying out billions in bonuses, again? Where tax rates are low and loopholes ubiquitous, to the point where some elites are even saying, “tax us”? “No confidence” in consumers? When wages are flat and 25 million Americans are looking for fulltime work? Impoverish tens of millions and wonder why they do not shop? “No confidence” in a society holding onto trillions of dollars, in an act of cash hoarding of historic proportions? Two trillion dollars sitting in corporate coffers, yet CEOs paralyzed due to their “lack of confidence” in America? The same CEOs being paid multi-million dollar salaries to figure out how to unravel their payrolls? Companies with $1.5 trillion in profits overseas, unwilling to bring that money back to America without a special tax break? “No confidence,” say banks, as a way to explain galloping foreclosure rates? The same banks that showed no initiative in following through on promises to assist these same families? To use the bailout money we gave them – they are still holding $500 billion, according to economist Robert Pollin -- to keep people in their homes? And about millions of lost homes? The Princeton/Georgia State study reports a 39 percent increase in ER admissions for suicide attempted post-foreclosure. “No confidence” in the richest country in the world? By far? Where S&P 500 companies averaged 13 percent return on their money last year? It is enough to make you sick. And that is exactly what’s happening. Their “lack of confidence” is a convenient way to explain the draining of the country’s working capital and its low tax revenue—and, with it, hope in a future. The elites give no mercy in today’s America, as our fundamental state of health – even among our children – takes a backseat to Wall Street’s insatiable appetite for privileged lifestyle. Who, we might ask, will be the first trillionaire? There’s a story pitch the national media would invite. A fair and equitable tax system, where wealthy corporations and individuals start to pay their share, is the start. A Wall Street transaction tax – and other nations’ versions – now exist in 40 countries and at seven major stock exchanges. A tax was passed by the parliament of the European Union. Good jobs, retirements, schools, quality health care for all… let’s fund it. That’s why thousands of nurses hit the streets on September 1, and asked congressmen and senators in 61 locales: support a tax on Wall Street transactions – they can certainly afford it – and get the healing of Main Street underway. Without it, this nation of sickness will get much sicker. Ask a nurse.
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We leave this week's Last Word to Little Steven Van Zandt of E-Street Band fame and Siruis/XM's Underground Garage radio show (some of you might remember Little Steven as Silvio Dante in HBO's "The Sopranos"). Little Steven tones down his politics on the radio mostly but a couple of Sundays ago they had "The Summer Soupy Shuffle" and Steven explained they had all the shows on an iPod and were letting it "shuffle" basically a "greatest hits" type show. And he re-aired this missive from Show 213 originally aired April 30 2006! Hear it on Segment 5 of Underground Garage Show 491 "The Summer Soupy Shuffle" here! Our transcript:
    "What is the Exit Strategy?" this guy asks me. Exit Strategy. It's a new term, isn't it? I don't remember hearing about it ten, fifteen years ago. They're not referring to war, you know: illegal occupations, police actions or any other mindless pointless excursions into foreign lands. That's a different rant. We're talking about business. We had met with a businessman. We were seeking investment in our company because we can change the world very, very slowly like we are doing now, which is fine. Or we can bring back massive amounts of fun, timeless substance and life-changing quality entertainment much quicker with a little assistance. Well perhaps we'll stumble into a true patron who understands what we're doing and seizes the opportunity. But until then we must tolerate the occasional meeting with every sci-fi writer's worst nightmare: The Contemporary Businessman.
    Yes I'm talking about the pillars of our community: The investment bankers, hedge fund wizards, the Wall Street geniuses, the venture capital gang. Our leaders! The guys who control our destinies on a daily basis. The men that get rid of the pesky content guys and annoying marketing people and replaced them all with accountants. And they all want to know, "What's the Exit Strategy?" These are the visionaries who can see into the future, all the way to the next fiscal quarter. What a vast array of talent they must have to inspire us, to motivate us, to help us realize our potential, to have created this world we now live in where everyone is so happy, filled with joy and satisfaction, knowing we spend every day doing something worthwhile, leaving a solid, safe, secure, blissful existence for generations to come.
    So what's an Exit Strategy exactly? It's the only reason for existence. That's all it is. It's investing in a company or buying one or merging a couple of them, cutting costs wherever possible which will cause the cheerleader vampires on Wall Street to move the stock price up creating the illusion of profit and then you sell it and move on. Exodus baby! And you know what? Let's leave behind a wing on a hospital or something like that because that's the least we can do in memory of the hundreds of thousands of workers we fired.
    Now is as good a time as any I suppose to list those talents of the men controlling the world right now. Let's see. Cutting costs, that's one. Um, cutting costs. Cutting costs. Firing people. Cutting costs. Paying people less, that's a good one. And oh yeah cutting costs. What do you mean cutting costs isn't a talent? Ah you're on to it, eh? In actuality it's a sickness. It's a disease. You wanna know the dirty little secret of the business world? These guys have no talent. They don't make anything anymore. They don't develop anything. They have no sense of quality or timelessness or long-term good for the culture or pride of work because they don't work for a living. They run from one deal to the next leaving behind destroyed families, shoddier and shoddier products, and depleted pension funds. And their time deficit disorder and quality deficit disorder is affecting all of us every day. What are they running to?
    Here's a little news for you guys: You can run but you can't hide. There's a revolution coming and it won't be led by rag-tag demonstrators in the streets. It will be led by guys like Warren Buffet, quality guys who think nothing but long-term. Guys that sit right next to you at those con-fab retreats but deep down really don't like you. Meanwhile you're screwing up our country, our world, our environment, our daily life and the futures of our kids. And ya know what? There ain't no exit strategy from the truth of that.


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»»» TROY DAVIS coverage on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 @ Democracy NOW! WATCH the whole show NOW Democracy NOW Wednesday RELATED Democracy Now! Special Report from Troy Davis Execution: Did Georgia Kill an Innocent Man? Sept 22, 2011
»»» Shon Meckfessel, friend of released hikers WATCH NOW Freed in Iran: U.S. Hikers Urge Freedom for All Political Prisoners Sept 22, 2011
»»» Ali Abunimah, co-founder of the website The Electronic Intifada and Mouin Rabbani of the Institute for Palestine Studies @ Democracy NOW! WATCH NOW Debate: Does U.N. Statehood Bid Advance or Undermine Palestinian Struggle? Sept 23, 2011
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»»» GRITtv @ www.grittv.org with Laura Flanders
»»» NEW SHOW Global Green USA Launches Global Warming “I AM” Campaign Green USA has launched the I AM Campaign to raise awareness about the serious threats Americans face from rising sea levels, and challenge citizens to take action in their communities. Joined by actors, athletes and musicians including: Mark Ruffalo, Adrian Grenier, Orlando Bloom, Serena Williams, James Cameron, Billy Morrison, Mark McGrath, Kevin Bacon, and Kyra Sedgwick among others, I AM highlights coastal cities in the U.S. and the world from New Orleans to New York City, from Tokyo to Jakarta, from San Francisco to Boston; that are in danger due to sea level rise.
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»»» NASCAR on ESPN The Chase moves to Loudon New Hampshire Motor Speedway! Coverage begins at 2 pm et
»»» MLB on TBS AL East Showdown! First game of a doulbeheader as Red Sox Nation holds their breath! Red Sox @ Yankees! 1 pm et PROGRAMMING NOTE: TBS will televise ALL of the First Round of the MLB Playoffs! Get yer hot dogs and cracker jacks ready!
»»» Football Night in America on NBC Steelers at Colts! Coverage begins at 7 pm et
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CONSUMER WATCHDOGI WANT TO HELP COUNT ME IN! I want to help with a California ballot measure that will rollback health insurance rates by 20% and create a public option alternative to private insurance companies. Please keep me informed and let me know what I can do. SIGN UP NOWI WANT TO HELP Entire San Francisco Chronicle Front Page story from Thu Aug 25, 2001 at link!
October2011.org October 2011 is the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan and the beginning of the 2012 federal austerity budget. It is time to light the spark that sets off a true democratic, nonviolent transition to a world in which people are freed to create just and sustainable solutions. Take this pledge at October2011.org
    "I pledge that if any U.S. troops, contractors, or mercenaries remain in Afghanistan on Thursday, October 6, 2011, as that occupation goes into its 11th year, I will commit to being in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., with others on that day or the days immediately following, for as long as I can, with the intention of making it our Tahrir Square, Cairo, our Madison, Wisconsin, where we will NONVIOLENTLY resist the corporate machine by occupying Freedom Plaza to demand that America's resources be invested in human needs and environmental protection instead of war and exploitation. We can do this together. We will be the beginning."
Do it NOW!
CHANGE.ORG The First Cause: A Plan to Claim Food As Food We're losing the right to manage our own health. Even the right to choose our food is being stolen. We can stop it, but only by ending the basis on which it's being done—not by addressing each action. A new website has been set up to allow people to post responses from politicians, along with their own articles: Free Choice - Health Defining food as food is not the only issue that must be tackled, but it's a key one. As it gets rolling, we'll start others. We are literally in a battle for our lives!
If you're in Europe, click HERE to sign the petition.
If you're in the United States, click HERE to sign the petition. Do it NOW!
UPDATE! Watch this interview with constitutional law attorney Jonathan Emord on ProjectCamelotLive JONATHAN EMORD INTERVIEW
CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE American Majority Rejects Washington Austerity Consensus – And We Demand Media Coverage by Roger Hickey, President, Campaign for America's Future: No more silent majority. The Campaign for America’s Future is joining with the Center for Economic and Policy Research (whose Co-Director, Dean Baker blogs regularly about economic bias in the media) and with FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) to monitor the media’s coverage and representation of the American Majority views as they go into covering the big deficit fight. But we want to enlist YOU too. Send us accounts of unbalanced coverage in the national media and in your local newspapers and television. Call up reporters, editors, assignment people and tell them when they are under-representing the views of the American Majority. We should have at least half the experts, pundits, quotes and real people represented in their coverage. In a debate as important as the one we are going into, we can’t allow the media to ignore the American Majority. Much more at www.ourfuture.org
MOVE TO AMEND! www.movetoamend.org SIGN HERE NOW! Also visit Rep Alan Grayson's site www.savedemocracy.net And Alan Grayson is running again in FL-8! Help out at CongressmanWithGuts.com
SUPPORT THE TROOPS WHO REFUSE TO FIGHT See CourageToResist.org UPDATE! Manning-Lamo Chat Logs Revealed at wired.com plus The Deeply Personal Details in New Bradley Manning Chat Logs and Bradley Manning Support Network Much more at link.
UPDATE! See Peter B Collins PBC Podcast 294 Afghan Update–Rabbani Assassination, US Night Raids Expand; Bradley Manning Update; Gary Chew Reviews ‘Moneyball’s
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  • This Week (ABC) with Christiane Amanpour
    Fact Checking ABC's "This Week" at NPR "On the Media" - Jake Tapper, interim host of ABC's "This Week," liked the idea of fact-checking his guests' comments, so he set up a partnership with Politifact, a non-partisan fact-checking organization. See Politifact Statements ABC News 'This Week'
    • White House Senior Advisor David Plouffe
    • Top Palestinian activist Hanan Ashrawi
    • British Prime Minister David Cameron
    • ROUNDTABLE: George Will, former Obama economic adviser and University of Chicago professor Austan Goolsbee, top investment manager PIMCO CEO Mohamed El-Erian, and Chrystia Freeland of Thompson Reuters
    • ROUNDTABLE II: Republican strategist Mary Matalin, Democratic strategist Donna Brazile and ABC News Political Director Amy Walter, George Will

  • Face The Nation (CBS) Host Bob Schiefer
    • Debbie Wasserman Schultz of the Democratic National Committee
    • Reince Priebus of the Republican National Committee
    • ROUNDTABLE: CBS News chief White House correspondent Norah O'Donnell, CBS News political analyst John Dickerson and Mark Zandi, the chief Economist of Moody's Analytics.

  • 60 Minutes (CBS)
    • The counter terrorism bureau - Scott Pelley brings viewers on a personal tour conducted by Police Commissioner Ray Kelly of what may be the world's most sophisticated terror defense forces - the New York City Police Department's counter terrorism unit. Robert Anderson, Pat Milton and Nicole Young are the producers.
    • The murder of an American Nazi - Lesley Stahl reports on the murder of a neo-Nazi leader and captures a growing subculture of hate playing out in America's backyards and alongside the border - where neo-Nazis patrol in order to keep illegal immigrants out. Shachar Bar-On is the producer.
    • Parker and Stone - Steve Kroft talks to Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of Comedy Central's "South Park" and gets to watch the process that each week produces another scathing and hilarious episode for the biggest hit on basic cable television. Now the disrespectful duo also have the biggest hit on Broadway, the musical comedy "The Book Of Mormon." Graham Messick is the producer.

  • Meet the Press (NBC) Host David Gregory
    Meet the Facts at NPR "On the Media" - Last December, NYU professor Jay Rosen proposed something simple yet revolutionary: why don't the Sunday morning chat shows fact check their guests? After "Meet the Press" host David Gregory declined, two college students launched a website to do it for him. One of them, Chas Danner, explains what they're trying to accomplish. See their website MeetTheFacts.com updating soon!
    • Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
    • New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg
    • ROUNDTABLE: Former Secretary of Education, William Bennett; former Secretary of Health and Human Services and current president of the University of Miami, Donna Shalala; PBS’s Tavis Smiley; and the CEO of the Special Olympics, Tim Shriver.

  • State of the Union With Candy Crowley (CNN)
    At 9 AM ET, Candy talks to the power players: politicians, business leaders and international newsmakers who will make Monday morning's headlines. At NOON ET, Candy wraps it all up with fresh interviews and the best of the earlier hours.
    • Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia
    • Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee
    • Indiana’s Republican Governor Mitch Daniels
    • ROUNDTABLE: USA Today’s Washington bureau chief Susan Page and TIME Magazine’s deputy bureau chief, Michael Crowley

  • HEAD ON RADIO with Bob Kincaid
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    Headon Radio with Bob Kincaid 6 PM Eastern, 3 PM Pacific, 2300 GMT. Duration: 3 hrs. To be part of the conversation on Head-on Radio, call toll-free (877) 443-2366, or use our Liberal community line at 304-658-3333. Email: bob [at] headonradio [dot] com.
    • PRAYER MEETIN' WEDNESDAY!!!!! Uber-pope Bob knows! Last one for awhile as Bob takes care of his own activism and leads by example! Listen HERE (mp3)!
    Amen to the White Rose Society! Donate to Head On HERE!

  • YOUR GREEN NEWS REPORT
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    The Green News Report with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen: 6 minutes of green news, politics, analysis & snarky comment!
    Go see greennews.bradblog.com!
    'Green News Report' - September 22, 2011 IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Superbugs are on the rise! And Monsanto is helping!; Extreme drought and climate change affecting power plants in the US!; PLUS: It's 'Dirty Air Week' in the U.S. House, the scariest place of all!!! ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!
    IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see link): Former Solyndra employees allege mismanagement; Solyndra executives will plead 5th in hearings; US will implement international standards for oil market transparency; BP Oil not degrading on Gulf floor; CERN Study: Are cosmic rays causing global warming? [No.]; $44m settlement in SF Bay oil spill; Interior Dept. confronts growing costs of wild horse control; World Bank: Ditch fossil fuel subsidies to fight climate change; Monsanto wins lawsuit against soybean farmer; Toxic BPA turning up in children's soup cans; Typhoon Roke spares Fukushima nuclear plant; Russia extends life of aging reactors; Rick Perry's dirty deals with Big Coal; TX, KS sue EPA over air pollution rule ... PLUS: Foreign land grabs in Africa threaten greater poverty ... Visit BradBlog.com to see who counts yer votes! Reference yer background/research at Who's Counting? too.

  • The Peter B. Collins Show PODCAST!
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    Listen at PeterBCollins.com!
    The Peter B. Collins Show covers American news and politics from the Left Coast. Veteran talk radio personality Peter B. Collins, based in San Francisco, delivers fresh interviews, commentary and analysis on a range of important topics, with views and voices you don’t often find in the corporate media.
    • PBC Live! Weekly on KGO PBC Live! Weekly on KGO Your humble host has been remiss in keeping you apprised of his other media activities. Since February, I’ve been hosting a regular weekly show on KGO, the leading San Francisco talk station with a huge coverage area–at night, you can hear it anywhere on the West Coast. TFN (till further notice), you can hear me every Friday night–or, more precisely, Saturday morning, from 1-5 am (PDT) on 810-AM or streaming at www.kgoradio.com. If you’d like to be alerted each week, sign up on Facebook as a fan of “Peter B. Collins Show” or you can follow me on Twitter, @pbcsf
    • PBC Podcast 293 Boiling Frogs: Paul Thompson, Part 3: History of ‘al Qaeda’ Before 9/11 Paul Thompson returns as our guest in this Boiling Frogs interview, co-hosted with Sibel Edmonds. This is Part 3 of our three-part one-of-a-kind interview series with author and researcher Paul Thompson.
    • PBC Podcast 294 Afghan Update–Rabbani Assassination, US Night Raids Expand; Bradley Manning Update; Gary Chew Reviews ‘Moneyball’ Journalist/historian Gareth Porter returns, with commentary on the killing of Rabbani and the expansion of night raids on civilians; Jeff Paterson of Courage to Resist gives us the latest on Pfc. Bradley Manning’s detention and upcoming court martial; film reviewer Gary Chew on Moneyball.

  • Ring of Fire Radio
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    Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/ hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder
    Ring of Fire Radio - GoLeft TV - Robert F. Kennedy, Mike Papantonio, Sam Seder - Politics, Commentary, and News.
    This Week on Ring of Fire! September 16, 2011.
    • This week on Ring of Fire: Bobby will tell us why the Troy Davis execution this week was so haunting to him, and we’ll learn about the events from Bobby’s past that have shaped his views on capital punishment.
    • Democratic strategist and syndicated columnist Karl Frisch will join us to talk about the GOP’s class genocide
    • And we’ll talk with Robert Segal, one of the leaders of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations that have been taking place this week.
    • Join our blog at www.ringoffireradio.com. You can now SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST by clicking on the “Podcast” tab at the top of the Ring of Fire blog. Please help support progressive radio by signing up!
    Ring of Fire Radio Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm (4 pm on XM 167) featuring The PAP Attack! "We’ll bring you the stories that the mainstream media didn’t feel like reporting this week."
    • VIDEO! Papantonio: The Class War That Needs To Happen If you’ve listened to any conservative media outlets in the last few weeks, you’ve probably heard them talking about class warfare. But they aren’t talking about the poor or middle class – they’re talking about the alleged class warfare being waged against millionaires and billionaires. While this kind of rhetoric isn’t winning over the millions of Americans who are out of work, it HAS given Democrats the upper hand in the battle for 2012. By focusing on preserving the American system of social safety nets, Democrats can once again be victorious in national elections.
    • VIDEO! Sam Seder: Occupy Wall Street Takes On Corporate Greed and Corruption This week, thousands of protesters took to the streets in New York City to protest the greed and corruption of Wall Street. The groups were made up of people of all ages who are sick and tired of being taken advantage of and looked over by billionaires and millionaires who have taken our economy and jobs hostage.
    • VIDEO! Papantonio: Hatred Wins At Republican Debate Mike Papantonio and Ed Schultz discuss the real winner of the Fox News Republican debate. It wasn’t Perry, Romney, or even Rick Santorum – it was Republican hatred.

  • Majority Report with Sam Seder Streaming LIVE weekdays 11:30 am et @ Majority.fm!
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    Marshall Curry on his If A Tree Falls Documentary & the Earth Liberation Front [09•19•11]
    Justin Wedes of the NYC General Assembly LIVE from Occupy Wall Street [09•19•11]
    Ryan Grim of Huffington Post on...Obama's Populist Turn? [09•20•11]
    Former U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson on the Tea Party & Class Warfare [09•21•11]
    Will Bunch on the Media Blackout of #OccupyWallStreet [09•22•11]
    Cliff Schecter and Sam Seder discuss the GOP Debate & the 'booing' of a Gay Soldier [09•23•11]
    MORE Podcast Interviews at majorityreport.official.fm!

  • On the Edge with Max Keiser Podcasts and more @ MaxKeiser.com!
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    "HI Y'ALL! Tell the people! Tell the people!"
    WHO IS MAX KEISER? Max Keiser is a financial expert, Prediction Markets analyst, inventor and filmmaker. He is the creator of the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) the first Prediction Market. Max Keiser co-hosts “The Truth About Markets” on ResonanceFM 104.4 in London. He also produces and presents documentary films covering markets and finance for Al Jazeera’s “People & Power” series. Max Keiser started his career on Wall Street in 1983. He is the creator of KarmaBanque a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power.
    • VISIT PirateMyFilm.com!!! Crowd Funding for Pirates! VIDEO! Inequality could cause American Spring by maxkeiser #occupywallst is the latest chapter in GIABO that got into full swing when Tunis erupted, that had been building since the real estate market popped in 2006 and the global unwind got going bringing with it austerity and QE (all of which we predicted would happen starting in 2003). After being in Dublin, Athens, Cairo and Beirut recently I am watching the action on Wall St. and the first thing that I am struck by is that activists there believe that they just figured out this ‘Wall St. is killing us narrative’ and that their protest is the most important in the world suddenly. Yes, it’s ON WALL ST. but Wall St. itself, that is to say, the derivatives business and the WMFD’s, are no longer there. They are traded in powerful hubs in various global hot spots with London being the epicenter more than Wall St. But putting that aside, let’s face it, the US is by and large the beneficiary of the financial terrorism it creates and it’s tough to see these protesters as victims. Maybe next year when gas is $7 or $8 and unemployment has doubled again we’ll see something a bit more rough and tumble. But welcome NY to the global fight… You’ve got a toe in the water, let’s see what develops.
    • VIDEO! OCCUPY WALL STREET PROTESTERS’ ARRESTS
    • VIDEO! Nomi Prins has a new book and cool video; “Black Tuesday.” Link to her new book Black Tuesday [Paperback] on Amazon
    • VIDEO! Financial Flashback: What Max Keiser predicted in 2007
    The Federal Reserve is a criminal syndicate buying debt that the government eagerly creates and sells for spending money that dumps the debt on us civilians. READ The Federal Debt As Criminal Scam, The Federal Reserve As Criminal Syndicate at zerohedge
    AGW deniers get exactly nothing for pandering to the Koch Brothers but they made billions off your faux ignorance and easily manipulated aspirations READ Getting Rich Off The Poor: How The Koch Brothers Wealth Grew 43% Since 2010 at politicususa.com
    Is The US Monetary System On The Verge Of Collapse? READ Monetary Madness at zerohedge.com
    Depression by the numbers READ Depression By The Numbers – A Poverty Bulletin from ProPublica Our Sputtering Economy by the Numbers: Poverty Edition
    • KEISER REPORT [KR186] Keiser Report – Dollar-Trapped! Stacy Summary: We interview Bill Still.
    [KR187] Keiser Report: Troika Tanks, Junta Bots & a Run on French Banks Stacy Summary: We interview Reggie Middleton about a run on French banks. I notice today that Pimco’s El-Erian is also talking about a run on French banks. He must have watched the Keiser Report when it aired from late last night PDT. We know you’re taking our shtick Mr. El-Erian, we’ve got our eye on you!
    • ON THE EDGE [OTE122] On the Edge with Karl Denninger We interview Karl Denninger. You can pre-order his book, Leverage, here. The book comes with a Foreword from Charles Hugh Smith who will be interviewing soon when he is in Paris!
    • ON THE EDGE [OTE124] On the Edge with David McWilliams We’re On the Edge with David McWilliams! Topics are European debt crisis, the IMF occupation of Ireland, the ongoing Nama crime wave and KILKENOMICS 2011.
    • THE TRUTH ABOUT MARKETS [TaM-1217] The Truth About Printing Dollars Stacy Summary: Here is the latest Truth About Markets. Recorded in the park with Richard Bluestein. We talk about the emergency dollar loans, ‘jobs killer’ memes and transaction taxes. Download show HERE (mp3)
    • THE TRUTH ABOUT MARKETS [TaM-1218] The Truth About Markets – 24 September 2011. Download show HERE (mp3)
    Donations to ResonanceFM here.

  • ANTIWAR RADIO with Scott Horton
    antiwarradio.jpg LIVE (9-11am Pacific, 12pm - 2pm Eastern) Plenty of archives too!
    Listen at antiwar.com/radio
    Michael Scheuer September 18, 2011: Michael Scheuer, 22-year veteran of the CIA and former head analyst at the CIA’s bin Laden unit, discusses why Ron Paul is right on foreign policy and Rick Santorum is a “gasbag;” how US military occupations and support for Israel and autocratic Arab governments radicalize Muslims in a way our “degenerate” culture fails to; why the 9/11 Commission report is a whitewash; how the Bush and Obama administrations fulfilled Osama bin Laden’s goals for him; why the war of civilizations (if it happens) should be labeled “made by the Ivy League;” why Arab Spring reformist governments need to worry if the US will let them remain in power or not; and why US government officials act like the heirs of the French Revolution when they travel the world, spreading democracy at the barrel of a gun. This interview was broadcast on KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles on September 16th.
    Pepe Escobar September 22, 2011: Pepe Escobar, journalist and author of "Obama Does Globalistan", discusses his article “Libya: to King Sarkozy, the spoils” about how France helped instigate the uprising in Libya and stands ready to profit from regime change; the lack of a “plan B” for Libya’s conquerors since Gaddafi slipped away (apparently in a hi-tech stealth SUV); why Libya’s (relative) wealth and high living standards may be undermined by a tribalistic and fundamentalist Islamic government; and why Libya may soon get an Iraq-style Coalition Provisional Authority and a cape-wearing puppet president.
    Philip Giraldi Septmber 23, 2011: Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses his article “Tapping the Israeli Embassy” about what Shamai Leibowitz learned while working as an FBI counterintelligence translator; the allied groups that make up the “Bomb Iran” lobby; catching Jane Harman and an unnamed congressman from Indiana acting like Israeli operatives; and how Israel’s “perception management” campaign makes Americans believe Iran is a dire threat and must be defeated in war.
    Many more interviews at Antiwar Radio!

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Tea Bagger Canards Dontcha just get SO TIRED of the SAME lies, untruths, half-truths and general BS being repeated OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN in the U.S. Corporate "News" Media? Much debunking to follow but FIRST here's an update on the Robo-signers from Bloomberg c/o Seattle Times Sept 9 Electronic mortgage-registry firm wins in appeal "The plaintiffs' claims that focus on the operation of the MERS system ultimately fail because the plaintiffs have not shown that the alleged illegalities associated with the MERS system injured them or violated state law," the three-judge appeals panel said. Kyle Ransom over at StockMarketReview.com offers this advice: How-to Defeat MERS After Arizona Homeowners Lose Foreclosure Appeal In a letter from Judge Conseulo Callahan writing from the unanimous three-judge panel, said that “Mortgage Electronic Registration System is a legitimate way for lenders to store deeds when the loans are transferred from one lender to another.” This is where Improper Mortgage Securitization comes into play. Why every homeowner facing foreclosure, foreclosure defense lawyers, and forensic loan auditors need to understand when securitization is flawed. Most importantly those trying to stop or void foreclosure need to know how to explain when improper mortgage securitization exists! The problem with MERS is that while they are setup to store deeds when loans are transferred from one lender to another which is legitimate but if securitization is improper the holder receiving transfer is NOT a Holder In Due Course. Now it becomes a universal problem for MERS because this is a violation of Uniform Commercial Code. Find out more at gofightforeclosure.com. Associated Press reporters DINA CAPPIELLO & HARRY R. WEBER scoop US gov't prepares to release BP oil spill report Meanwhile, interviews and documents obtained by The Associated Press show a BP scientist identified a previously unreported deposit of flammable gas that could have played a role in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but the oil giant failed to divulge the finding to government investigators for as long as a year. While engineering experts differ on the extent to which the two-foot-wide swath of gas-bearing sands helped cause the disaster, the finding raises the specter of further legal and financial troubles for BP. It also could raise the stakes in the multibillion-dollar court battle between the companies involved. "This is a critical factor, where the hydrocarbons are found," Rice University engineering professor Satish Nagarajaiah said. "I think further studies are needed to determine where this exactly was and what response was initiated by BP if they knew this fact." ... Based on the initial information, regulators approved BP's well sealing plan, which called for placing the top of the cement at roughly 17,300 feet below the surface of the water. The cement was pumped April 19, the day before the explosion. But Skripnikova said that after she flew back from the rig, she and others re-examined the analysis, and on the day of the explosion she identified the shallower gas zone. That would have meant the cement should have been placed at just under 17,000 feet below the surface of the water. She said she did not relay that information to drilling engineers on the Deepwater Horizon and warn them to hold off proceeding with the abandonment. She suggested in her deposition that she thought the information would be passed up the chain. BP was already $60 million over budget and stopping operations at that point and coming up with a new cement design would have meant millions of extra dollars in costs. Now some addenda from last week you should read.

And Glenn Greenwald dissects the right-wing's hissy fit Paul Krugman set off last weekend The meaning of political rituals like 9/11 Day On 9/11 Day, Paul Krugman provoked a wave of petulant, angry condemnation for pointing out just some of the valid reasons that day is now inextricably linked with the shameful acts done in its name by the U.S. Though I continuously defended Krugman on Twitter, I had no intention of writing about this pseudo-controversy because it was little more than what Digby describes as a standard formulaic "hissy fit" from right-wing warmongers who long ago ceased having the power to stigmatize people for such heresies (the apex of this absurd spectacle occurred when the man widely admired around the world as The Nation's Moral Conscience -- Donald Rumsfeld -- announced that he was cancelling his subscription to The New York Times in protest of Krugman's "repugnant" post). But then yesterday, I read what is one of the most self-evidently inane posts the Internet has ever produced: this must-be-read-to-be-believed sermon from Mother Jones' Rick Ungar condemning Krugman and demanding that other progressives join with him and the Right in these denunciations. Just for sheer entertainment, I really encourage you to read the whole thing; my favorite part is when Ungar decrees that 9/11 Day is "a day when Americans of all stripes should have been giving thanks to both President Bush and President Obama for doing whatever it is they do that has protected us from a tragic repeat of the events of September 11, 2001." On so many levels, that's just the funniest sentence ever (and we now bow our heads in reverent gratitude toward our Leaders, George Bush and Barack Obama, and solemnly thank them for doing whatever it is they do -- no matter what that might be -- to Keep Us Safe). But there is a point raised by Ungar's finger-wagging that I do actually think is worth addressing. He writes that while he agrees with the substance of Krugman's criticism, it was his timing that was so offensive, because 9/11 Day "was decidedly not a day that needed to be about politics." This notion -- that 9/11 Day was nothing more than an apolitical grieving ceremony, akin to a private funeral, and Krugman's sin was one of etiquette: it just wasn't the day for politics -- is a common one. But it's completely wrong, and quite destructive to accept. Everything about 9/11 Day -- like all political rituals -- was deeply politicized to its core. ... Not just 9/11 Day but everything connected to it was constructed to deliver and implant a very politicized message, over and over. ... Everything about 9/11 -- how it's talked about, how it's described, how it's commemorated -- is all designed to impart very specific political messages, and that's been true since the day it happened. .... Read the rest of Greenwald's spot-on analysis at the link. CNN gave up their "Most trusted name in news" claim and showed their true colors by co-hosting the "Tea Baggers Ball" an assortment of Neocons, Corporatists, Christian Dominionists, "Free"-traders, Global-climate-change-deniers and other misfits from the far-right lunatic fringe hell bent on destroying American Democracy. Of course Tea Bag Nation has been wholly funded by the Kook Brothers, ALEC, and a host of their well-funded "think" tanks like CATO, AEI, and the rest, which we've covered extensively. (Catch Brad Freidman's excellent NEW BLOCKBUSTER on the Kooks 'Inside the Koch Brothers 2011 Summer Seminar': Part 1 of My 2-Part Exclusive at MOTHER JONES [Now UPDATED with comment from the Kochs, finally, as given to ABC News & more...]) Remember when Rep. Alan Grayson pointed out the Republicans' Health Insurance "plan" on the floor of the Peoples' House? Here's the vid GO WATCH NOW. Grayson had THIS to say about the reprehensible behavior of not just the crowd, but the "candidates" and the "media" in this case Wolf "Mossad Agent" Blitzer:
    "What do you tell a guy who is sick, goes into a coma and doesn't have health insurance? Who pays for his coverage? Are you saying society should just let him die?" Wolf Blitzer asked. "Yeah!" several members of the crowd yelled out. (vid & story here)
Alan Grayson Blasts Tea Party Debate Audience's Reaction To Health Care Question: 'It's Sadism' HuffPost asked Grayson what he thought of the crowd cheering for the death of the uninsured man."My speech was about the fact I had been listening to the Republicans for months, and they literally had no plan to help all those millions of people who can’t see a doctor when they’re sick. So I said, in sort of a wry manner, that their plan was "don’t get sick." All I really wanted to do was just call attention to the stark absence of a Republican plan. But Fox, trying to take the heat off Joe Wilson and Sarah Palin I guess, transmogrified that into a charge that Republicans want to kill people. What you saw tonight is something much more sinister than not having a healthcare plan. It's sadism, pure and simple. It's the same impulse that led people in the Coliseum to cheer when the lions ate the Christians. And that seems to be where we are heading -- bread and circuses, without the bread. The world that Hobbes wrote about -- "the war of all against all."" Robert Parry ConsortiumNews.com notes how CNN Panders to the Tea Party CNN, which likes to boast that it’s America’s non-ideological cable news network, revealed in its Republican presidential debate collaboration with the Tea Party Express the hidden political reality behind “centrist” journalism – a never-ending pandering to the Right. The basic truth about mainstream journalism is that the careerists who dominate the national news media are keenly attuned to where the worst career dangers lie and steer away accordingly. And, by far, the biggest risk to a journalist’s career is to be deemed “liberal” by the Right’s powerful attack machine. So, while CNN would surely recoil from a suggestion that it co-sponsor a Democratic debate with, say, Moveon.org, the “No Bias, No Bull” network saw no problem in associating its journalistic credibility with the far-right Tea Party. ... Among mainstream journalists, there is almost no career danger from offending the American Left because it is viewed as essentially powerless, lacking any significant media clout of its own. ....CNN, which the Right has sometimes smeared as the “Communist News Network,” can now cite its collaboration with the Tea Party as valuable right-wing “cred.” ... CNN’s behavior fits into a larger pattern which has frequently denied the American people the relevant facts and the clear analysis that are needed in a democratic society – because to do otherwise would invite devastating right-wing attacks on the journalists. .... With its new collaboration with the right-wing Tea Party, CNN appears to be reentering the “who-can-pander-to-the-Right-the-most” sweepstakes. William Rivers Pitt piles on with The Cult of Death at TruthOut.com There's more than a bit of sad irony in this. "Tea Party" people like to think of themselves as a grassroots "movement" born of, so they believe, a national sense of horror at the fact that Barack Obama is president. They peddled the farcical idea that Mr. Obama's birth certificate didn't exist, that he is a secret socialist fascist communist Muslim Islamist terrorist mole...but in the main, they are nothing more than useful idiots following the beat of drummers who couldn't care less about them at the end of the day. And yes, "idiots" is the proper word. These "Tea Party" people profess to be representatives of average Americans, despite being a complete creation of the 0.1% wealthy elite. They claim government is too big, even as many of them hail from states (think Texas) that would utterly collapse without federal funding. They bring guns to public rallies. They like Medicare, until they are reminded that Medicare is a government program. And they are Christians, members of the faithful, who enjoy executions and who think uninsured people should be left to die. Correction: they are "Christians," because it is impossible to build any kind of bridge between the teachings of Jesus and the beliefs these people espouse at the top of their lungs. They are not Christians, but are in fact a death-worshipping cult. The best response to the vile display broadcast by CNN on Monday night was provided by former Florida Rep. Alan Grayson, who has had more than a few go-rounds with this particular breed of cat. Nobel Laureate PAUL KRUGMAN boils it down to Free to Die ...So the freedom to die extends, in practice, to children and the unlucky as well as the improvident. And the right’s embrace of that notion signals an important shift in the nature of American politics....Now, however, compassion is out of fashion — indeed, lack of compassion has become a matter of principle, at least among the G.O.P.’s base. And what this means is that modern conservatism is actually a deeply radical movement, one that is hostile to the kind of society we’ve had for the past three generations — that is, a society that, acting through the government, tries to mitigate some of the “common hazards of life” through such programs as Social Security, unemployment insurance, Medicare and Medicaid. Are voters ready to embrace such a radical rejection of the kind of America we’ve all grown up in? I guess we’ll find out next year. For those still in the reality-based community we go to Glenn Kessler at WaPo for Fact checking the CNN and Tea Party Express debate in Tampa and also Politifact's Bill Adair Fact-checking the CNN/Tea Party Express GOP debate so head over there for some FACTS. One of the all-time canards the GOP love to trot out is "the private sector is more efficient than government" hence the privitization drive, from privatizing schools across the U.S., selling off roads and prisons (like Guv Kasich in Ohio) and even entire towns (like Guv Snyder in Michigan) to the military hiring contractors like Blackwater/XE or Triple Canopy (see Brave New Film's Iraq For Sale) and so on. Ron Nixon at NYT reports Government Pays More in Contracts, Study Finds (h/t jen) Despite a widespread belief that contracting out services to the private sector saves the federal government money, a new study suggests just the opposite — that the government actually pays more when it farms out work. The study found that in 33 of 35 occupations, the government actually paid billions of dollars more to hire contractors than it would have cost government employees to perform comparable services. On average, the study found that contractors charged the federal government more than twice the amount it pays federal workers. The study was conducted by the Project on Government Oversight, a nonprofit Washington group. ... But POGO said its study did not just compare the salaries of the two sectors; instead it focused on what the government actually pays contractors to perform services versus how much it would cost to have that work done by in-house staff members. “That’s a big difference,” said Scott Amey, POGO’s general counsel. “We compared the full compensation paid to federal government and private sector employees to the billable rates in federal service contracts. Across the board you see that it cost government more to pay for contractors.” For example, the study found that, on average, the federal government paid contractors $268,653 per year for computer engineering services, while government workers in the same occupation made $136,456. ... Paul C. Light, a professor at New York University who has studied the contractor work force, said he found the POGO study interesting. “Contracting out to the private sector is often oversold as the answer to better services, better performance and better cost,” Mr. Light said. “But doing this type of analysis shows that it’s not the case.” Here's another shocker from the reality-based community Robert Reich Debunks 6 Big GOP Lies about The Economy a NationofChange Video Report. WATCH NOW! Then Zerohedge tells us that Median Male Worker Makes Less Now Than 43 Years Ago AND a Record Number Americans, Or 46.3 Million, Lived In Poverty Last Year; 49.9 Million Without Health Insurance. Those are some shocking numbers! Click over there for the gory details. Washington's Blog asks Can We Build Our Own Economy From the Ground Up? Lots to read here too with plenty of links and good ideas. Robert Sheer provides more reality in One Betrayal Too Many Some of us who voted for Obama thought he was no Clinton, but he was and is, as was demonstrated in his first days in office when he appointed two key veterans of the Clinton Treasury Department, Lawrence Summers and Timothy Geithner, to head up the Obama economic team. Geithner, as treasury secretary, is the point man for the administration’s push to pass the so-called American Jobs Act, which the president hyped in his Sept. 8 speech to Congress and the nation. It was pure Clinton bull: I feel your pain while I help the superrich pick your pocket. Space permits only one example, that of General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt, whom Obama selected to head his “Jobs Council of leaders from different industries who are developing a wide range of new ideas to help companies grow and create jobs.” Was that some cruel joke? GE under Immelt has grown and created jobs, but they are abroad rather than in our own troubled country. As a result, by the end of last year, only 134,000 of GE’s workforce of 304,000 were based in the United States; the remainder—and 82 percent of the company’s profit—were sheltered abroad. Now for one of the BIGGEST LIES out there The real threat to Social Security by Susie Madrak It’s the payroll tax, stupid
    “The Ponzi scheme is a sideshow. It’s an outrageous claim designed to undermine confidence in the program,” says Nancy Altman, co-director of Strengthen Social Security, a progressive group trying to save the program. Altman knows her onions when it comes to Social Security, having assisted Alan Greenspan, who headed a bipartisan commission in 1983 that put Social Security on a sound financing footing. Altman wasn’t keen on the payroll tax holiday agreed to last December, telling NPR that this “could eventually lead to the unraveling of Social Security.” If Republicans make this permanent, it could spell real trouble for Social Security, she said. I asked Altman if she had changed her mind. Nope, she hadn’t, and discussed the red flags that the public and the press should think about as another payroll tax cut zooms through Congress. The payroll tax cut now in effect reduced the amount of contributions employees pay from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent, and left in place employers’ contributions, also 6.2 percent. This time around the president is proposing that workers pay a payroll tax of only 3.1 percent—a fifty percent reduction from the 6.2 percent rate that has been in effect for two decades. Employers would also be relieved of making payroll contributions on the first $5 million of their payroll, a move targeted at small employers. Altman says these cuts would not be a big deal if they were temporary, but she believes they’ll stick around. “Congress has been reluctant to increase marginal tax rates by a modest amount on the very wealthiest Americans; it’s hard to believe they would be eager to allow Social Security contributions to double on the lowest-income, working Americans,” she said.
Oh there's more you need to read. Let's remember FICA is not a TAX it's an INVESTMENT in YOUR OWN SS contribution. And the 2% "tax break" enacted last year? For someone making $50K/yr this works out to about $20/week; if you make LESS than that your "tax break" is obviously less too. This so-called "economic boost" will hardly affect most peoples' bottom line for food, housing and energy expenses as many are trying to pay down debt as well. We wrote our U.S. Senators demanding an "Opt In/Opt Out" so workers can decide if they'd rather pay the difference directly into their OWN SS ACCOUNT or take home that extra ten bucks now. The Banksters and the Capitalists looted Social Security and they DON'T WANT TO PAY IT BACK. Prairie2 sums it up President Perry knows who he will bomb first Unemployment continues to track upward with seasonally adjusted initial claims of 428,000 last week, an increase of 11,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 417,000. This is above what is considered the “new normal” of 400,000 claims per week. Prior to the beginning of the New Republican Great Depression, the “normal” number of claims was 275,000. Continued efforts to cut wages by firing workers and replacing them at half pay from the vast pool of the desperate un-employed has pushed the “normal” number up. So even as the number climbs we don’t know if no jobs are being created, or if there are just more low wage jobs being created. More than half the states had increased claims, the largest increases in initial claims for the week ending September 3 were in Kansas, North Carolina, Washington, New Jersey, and Texas. Wait a minute, Texas has more claims? Where was the “job creator”? Have you noticed that in one breath that Texas Governor Perry will berate President Obama’s efforts to “create” jobs as doomed to failure since everybody knows the government can’t create jobs. But, he will in the next breath proclaim that Obama has destroyed 2.5 million jobs while in office, while at the same time, he (Perry, the government of Texas) has created a million jobs. “Irony” is a country in the Middle East that President Perry will bomb. New foreclosure actions jumped 33% in August, but the number is still lower than the same month last year. This is considered an indication that banks are becoming more aggressive in initiating foreclosures again after the slowdown caused by flap over the handling of foreclosures in ways best described as criminal. Several more Attorneys General have joined NY’s AG in rejecting a 50 state settlement joined by the Obama Adm with the banks over the mortgage scandal where there isn’t supposed to be any prosecution. ... This phony paperwork is often exposed only because the signatures don’t match. The lack of valid signatures is because they have been signed by minimum wage workers passed off as bank officers, and as notaries public who “witnessed” the fake signatures and fabricated affidavits. If you or I submitted this sort of fraud to a court we would be rewarded with long prison term. But, we aren’t rich bankers. We just get to pay for it. Of course the "bread and circuses, without the bread" will be on display on the Sunday Morning Funnies with Triangulator-In-Chief BILL CLINTON on The Big Three ABC's This Anampout, NBC's Meet the David and CBS's Face the Bob. This Anampout also scores with TONY BLAIR and Face the Bob gets fave brick target DARTH CHENEY while State of Candy referees DICK DURBIN vs LINDSEY GRAHAM and FAKE SNOOZE recruits HERMAN CAIN to spread more of the lies outlined above. Your Sunday Morning will be better spent right here at BTV with SAM SEDER's interview with ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. and News Dissecter DANNY SCHECTER plus Ring of Fire with JOSHUA HOLLAND and world news interviews at AntiWarRadio with PHILLIP GERALDI and CHRIS FLOYD and Peter B, Max and the rest! And check out TAVIS SMILEY and CORNELL WEST's "Interdependence Day" with videos on their front page. Be sure to watch PROFESSOR CORNELL WEST on Democracy NOW! After being in first place for over half the season The Brick TeeVee Crew threw in the towel on the Tribe's 2011 season after the Tigers pancaked them into oblivion winning seven straight over the Wahoos. Key injuries to Sizemore, Choo, Hafner, Santana and others left Manager MANNY ACTA playing a line-up of Triple-A hopefuls and Major League journeymen that inevitably caught up with him. Despite the parent club raiding players from Columbus The Clippers won their ninth Governors' Cup with a 4-1 victory over Lehigh Valley. Go Clippers! The BTV Victory Garden is winding down but we have a bumper crop of eggplant and tomatoes and tomatillos and hot peppers! Hot BTV Salsa coming up soon! And we planted some lettuce and spinach here in late summer to see what pops up before we close it down. And one of our neighbors grew a gazillion fresh peaches so we'll be busy getting these into jars and such. Yum! Enjoy your Sunday and your week!


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    • PBC Live! Weekly on KGO PBC Live! Weekly on KGO Your humble host has been remiss in keeping you apprised of his other media activities. Since February, I’ve been hosting a regular weekly show on KGO, the leading San Francisco talk station with a huge coverage area–at night, you can hear it anywhere on the West Coast. TFN (till further notice), you can hear me every Friday night–or, more precisely, Saturday morning, from 1-5 am (PDT) on 810-AM or streaming at www.kgoradio.com. If you’d like to be alerted each week, sign up on Facebook as a fan of “Peter B. Collins Show” or you can follow me on Twitter, @pbcsf
    • PBC Podcast 290 Legalize It? Psychiatrist/Author of “Cannabinomics” Says Tipping Point is Near; Tired of “Awesome”? Arthur Plotnik Gives 6,000 Alternates Dr. Glenn Fichtner, author of "Cannabinomics", reviews the medical uses of marijuana, the failure of the drug war, and what he calls the marijuana policy tipping point; Arthur Plotnik’s delightful book "Better Than Great: A Plenitudinous Compendium of Wallopingly Fresh Superlatives" prompts a fun discussion of language and vocabulary.
    • PBC Podcast 291 Searching for Answers About Google? Steven Levy on His New Book ‘In The Plex’ Wired magazine Senior Editor Steven Levy is our single guest for this podcast, talking about his new book "In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives".
    • PBC Podcast 292 Inside Scientology: Author Janet Reitman and Attorney Ford Greene Go Behind the Hubbard Curtain; Chew Reviews “Higher Ground” Janet Reitman, author of Inside Scientology: The Story of America’s Most Secretive Religion and Ford Greene, the attorney who has helped people escape from Scientology and other cult groups.

  • Ring of Fire Radio
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    Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/ hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder
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    This Week on Ring of Fire! September 16, 2011.
    • Frances Beinecke, president of the NRDC will be joining us to discuss the Republicans jobs plan – which includes slashing environmental protections and funding for the EPA.
    • Tamara Draut from Demos dot org will be joining us to talk about the struggles facing the American middle class
    • Journalist Adam Lee will tell us about the threat posed by the rapidly expanding group of science-denying Christian dominionists in America.
    • And investigative journalist Joshua Holland will tell us how Wall Street billionaires are trying to convince the middle class that they need to sacrifice more, while Wall Street insiders continue to make billions.
    • Join our blog at www.ringoffireradio.com. You can now SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST by clicking on the “Podcast” tab at the top of the Ring of Fire blog. Please help support progressive radio by signing up!
    Ring of Fire Radio Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm (4 pm on XM 167) featuring The PAP Attack! "We’ll bring you the stories that the mainstream media didn’t feel like reporting this week."
    • VIDEO! Papantonio: America’s Income Disparity Explained While 68.3 million Americans struggle to get enough food to eat and wages are declining for 90 percent of the population, US millionaire household wealth has reached an unprecedented level. According to an extensive study by auditing and financial advisory firm Deloitte, US millionaire households now have $38.6 trillion in wealth. On top of the $38.6 trillion, they have an estimated $6.3 trillion hidden in offshore accounts.
    • VIDEO! Sam Seder: The Future of Libya Moammar Gaddafi’s 42-year reign as dictator in Libya was brought to an end by a combination of civilian uprising, and limited military support from a coalition of allied forces, including the United States. But with Gaddafi gone, the country is now facing an era of uncertainty, with no clear leader and no clear way forward. Sam Seder discusses the situation in Libya, and some possible challenges we could see in the near future, with Steve Clemons, Washington editor at large for The Atlantic.
    • VIDEO! Papantonio: Bachmann’s Warped Worldview The presidential candidacies of Rick Perry and Michelle Bachmann have already proved one thing about the 2012 election – the religious right is going to once again play a massive role in electing Republicans. Both Perry and Bachmann have developed their worldviews based on the Re-Constructionist movement within the religious right, a movement that believes in a strict, literal interpretation of the Bible. Mike Papantonio talks about how dangerous the religious right will be in 2012 with Frank Schaeffer, author of the new book “Sex, Mom, and God: How the Bible’s Strange Take on Sex Led to Crazy Politics-and How I Learned to Love Women (and Jesus) Anyway.”

  • Majority Report with Sam Seder Streaming LIVE weekdays 11:30 am et @ Majority.fm!
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    RJ Eskow of Campaign for America's Future on raising the Medicare Eligibility Age [09•12•11]
    Spencer Ackerman talks Palestinian Statehood [09•13•11]
    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talks EPA Ozone Levels [09•14•11]
    Cliff Schecter and Sam Seder talk a Progressive Gameplan Going Forward [09•16•11]
    MORE Podcast Interviews at majorityreport.official.fm!

  • On the Edge with Max Keiser Podcasts and more @ MaxKeiser.com!
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    "HI Y'ALL! Tell the people! Tell the people!"
    WHO IS MAX KEISER? Max Keiser is a financial expert, Prediction Markets analyst, inventor and filmmaker. He is the creator of the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) the first Prediction Market. Max Keiser co-hosts “The Truth About Markets” on ResonanceFM 104.4 in London. He also produces and presents documentary films covering markets and finance for Al Jazeera’s “People & Power” series. Max Keiser started his career on Wall Street in 1983. He is the creator of KarmaBanque a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power.
    • VISIT PirateMyFilm.com!!! Crowd Funding for Pirates!
    • VIDEO! MAX KEISER ON RADIO 5 LIVE 11TH SEPTEMBER 2011 Exactly as I warned about in this interview… Inflation On The Rise After Cost Of Food, Clothing And Energy Soars (huffpo uk edition)
    • VIDEO Financial Facism Max Keiser talks about Financial Fascism
    Worst Year in U.S. History For Natural Disasters, A Billion+ Dollar Disaster Every Month> by stacyherbert - READ This Has Been The Worst Year For Natural Disasters In U.S. History at TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com There has been a natural disaster that has caused at least a billion dollars of damage inside the United States every single month so far this year. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, there have been 10 major disasters in the United States this year. On average, usually there are only about 3 major disasters a year. At this point, disasters are happening inside the United States so frequently that there seems to be no gap between them. We just seem to go from one major disaster to the next. Last year, FEMA declared an all-time record of 81 disasters inside the United States. This year, we are on pace for well over 100. We just got done dealing with Hurricane Irene, and now we are dealing with historic wildfires in Texas and unprecedented flooding up in the northeast part of the country. This has been the worst year for natural disasters in U.S. history, and we still have nearly four months left to go.
    • KEISER REPORT [183] Keiser Report: Confidence Game Interview with Alex Schaefer
    • KEISER REPORT [KR184] Keiser Report – Debt Carpet Bombing We interview Zeus Yiamouyiannis
    • KEISER REPORT Keiser Report: Flaming Banks, Burned-Out Economy Stacy Summary: We interview Aaron Krowne of ML-Implode.com
    • ON THE EDGE [OTE122] On the Edge with Karl Denninger We interview Karl Denninger. You can pre-order his book, Leverage, here. The book comes with a Foreword from Charles Hugh Smith who will be interviewing soon when he is in Paris!
    • ON THE EDGE On the Edge with Danny Schechter Max and Danny Schechter, the News Dissector, discuss Obama’s job bill, the mainstream financial media and #occupywallstreet
    • THE TRUTH ABOUT MARKETS [TaM-1215] The Truth About Market Prolapse. Download show HERE (mp3)
    • THE TRUTH ABOUT MARKETS [TaM-1216] The Truth About Tony Blair’s Remote-Controlled Eyeball. Download show HERE (mp3) Stacy Summary: With special guest, Madge Weinstein!!
    Donations to ResonanceFM here.

  • ANTIWAR RADIO with Scott Horton
    antiwarradio.jpg LIVE (9-11am Pacific, 12pm - 2pm Eastern) Plenty of archives too!
    Listen at antiwar.com/radio
    Philip Giraldi September 14, 2011 Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses the CIA’s failure to disclose information on the 9/11 hijackers living in San Diego (before the deed) to the FBI; why government incompetence and inefficiency can explain events (like 9/11) that seem to be deliberately planned or allowed to happen; the major implications for US alliances over a possible veto on the Palestinian state UN resolution; why Israel is worried about (potential) Palestine’s creation along 1967 borders, as well as access to the ICC and UNESCO; and declining relations between Israel and Turkey.
    Chris Floyd September 14, 2011Chris Floyd, author of Empire Burlesque – High Crimes and Low Comedy in the Bush Imperium , discusses his article “What Lies Beneath: The Essence of Modern America in Somalia’s Blood-drenched Soil” the US “dual track policy” of simultaneously funding the weak central government and the warlords – guaranteeing some influence no matter who carries the day; how imperial hubris has convinced American politicians they have the right to decide who is and isn’t suitable to rule Somalia; and a reminder that American lives are no more important than Somali lives (which should give us pause, as over 100,000 have been needlessly killed).
    Richard Silverstein September 14, 2011: Richard Silverstein, writer of the Tikun Olam blog, discusses his article “Secret trial revelations prompt US-Israeli diplomatic storm” about the Israeli agenda revealed by FBI translator and whistleblower Shamai Leibowitz; why a DOJ prosecution should be anticipated, despite the First Amendment protection of journalists publishing classified information; why government employees interested in protecting the US should be prepared to pay a steep price for patriotism; how the media spun the story as “US spies on Israel!” while saving the actual content for later paragraphs; how Israel manages to control Congress and run US Middle East foreign policy; how the Israeli government gets op-eds published in American newspapers and starts lawsuits against American companies boycotting Israel’s goods; and why there was likely a deal between Obama’s electoral transition team and Israel to stop Operation Cast Lead two days before the inauguration.
    Mark Sheffield September 15, 2011: Mark Sheffield of the Policy on Point blog discusses his post “Arab Spring, Israeli Fall” how Hosni Mubarak’s departure has freed Egyptians to protest against Palestinian mistreatment; the Obama administration’s demand that Egypt crack down on protesters, making it clear democracy won’t be tolerated if it is used to criticize Israel; why the rift between Turkey and Israel, the major regional powers and former close allies, is a big deal; and indications that US pro-Israel policy is getting increasingly more costly in terms of alliances and influence.
    Kevin Zeese September 15, 2011: Kevin Zeese, Executive Director of VotersForPeace and Co-Chair of Come Home America, discusses Come Home America’s tripartite approach to building a successful, broad-based antiwar movement; the notable signatories from all over the political spectrum who have signed the letter urging President Obama and the Congress to end the wars right now; why war is good for the economy – if you happen to own a bank or Lockheed Martin; Obama’s fundraising events that cost more for admission than the average American earns in a year; and why the peace movement needs to shatter the perception carried forward from the Vietnam-era, that only leftist hippies too lazy and cowardly to fight would oppose war.
    Dean Ahmad Septmber 15, 2011: Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, founder of the Minaret of Freedom Institute, discusses the differences and commonalities of the three major Abrahamic religions; why Islam’s theological distinctions don’t make all Muslims into budding terrorists – despite what the Islamophobes would have you believe; the many Muslims (devout and secular alike) participating in the Arab spring movement against despotic governments – nearly all supported by the US and Israel; how Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri developed an expanded version of the Five Pillars of Islam, to include a militarized conception of jihad; and why American Muslims cherish the “land of opportunity” and certainly don’t “hate us for our [and their] freedoms.”
    Many more interviews at Antiwar Radio!

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