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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Has democracy failed?
Do we need another way?
Has the human race evolved beyond its primate primal functions?
The keepers of change have chained our thinking.
The movers and makers make our minds up.
We sit and contemplate where only art acts.

Something had better change.
Something soon.

8 comments:

Bill Robertson said...: A failure ..? Perhaps. What definitely needs to change is our belief that democracy is good for everyone ..in every country.; October 29, 2008 at 9:36 PM
Agent of Truth said...: Power Corrupts. Knowledge is power. Knowledge corrupts.

Change... would be nice.; October 29, 2008 at 11:45 PM
Russell CJ Duffy said...: I would like to see democracy, which I frankly think doesn't exist, certainly not here in Great Britain and certainly not in the USA. A pretense maybe, a venner but not the real deal, mutate into more of an anarchistic society. Noy anarchy in the modern excepted sense but in the way it was meant. Individuals taking responsibility foir their own actions. Sadly, with the human race, I can never see that happening. People seem to need to have leaders.; October 30, 2008 at 5:11 AM
Strategicus said...: democracy is a political tool.....its good as long as it suits US policy and bad when it does not........having said that the british policy of divide and rule....the division of middle east after WW One......etc ....the rivalry with USSR ......all these complicated things....now just see with inflation and poverty the left is re-asserting and peace is nowhere in sight...in asia we have islamic extremism ....thanks to myopic US policies.....all these guys are students of CIA; October 30, 2008 at 6:03 AM
Strategicus said...: IS THIS DEMOCRACY ?

Wednesday, October 1, 2008
How Many Houses Does Nancy Pelosi Own ?
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi - who is leading the congressional surge to bailout the fascio-corporatist financiers and bankers of the wall street cabal - reports that she is worth between $23,000,000 and $93,000,000 (yes, that’s “millions”).

Pelosi’s reported assets include lines of credit with:

1. Bank of America $250,000 - $500,000.

2. Union Bank of California of $1,000,000 to $5,000,000 (millions again).

Additional assets include “margin accounts” with the following institutions:

1. Wells Fargo Investments...........$1.000,000 TO $5,000,000

2. WR Hambrecht & Co.................$500,000 TO $1,000,000.

Pelosi's reported “liabilities” include six (6) mortgages. The amounts are as follow:

MORTGAGE................AMOUNT

1...................................$1.000.000 TO $5,000,000.

2...................................$1.000.000 TO $5,000,000.

3...................................$500.000 TO $1,000,000.

4...................................$250.000 TO $500,000.

5...................................$1.000.000 TO $5,000,000.

6...................................$1.000.000 TO $5,000,000.

Pelosi obviously has a conflict of interest regarding the bailout of the financial and banking institutions of the wall street cabal. Fairness requires that she and all other members of congress with such extensive ties to these institutions not be allowed to vote either for or against the bailout.

Pelosi and the others should only be allowed to vote “present” on the bailout.
Posted by Robert Brooks at 9:37 AM 0 comments
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
How Many Houses Does Nancy Pelosi Own ?
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi - who is leading the congressional surge to bailout the fascio-corporatist financiers and bankers of the wall street cabal - reports that she is worth between $23,000,000 and $93,000,000 (yes, that’s “millions”).

Pelosi’s reported assets include lines of credit with:

1. Bank of America $250,000 - $500,000.

2. Union Bank of California of $1,000,000 to $5,000,000 (millions again).

Additional assets include “margin accounts” with the following institutions:

1. Wells Fargo Investments...........$1.000,000 TO $5,000,000

2. WR Hambrecht & Co.................$500,000 TO $1,000,000.

Pelosi's reported “liabilities” include six (6) mortgages. The amounts are as follow:

MORTGAGE................AMOUNT

1...................................$1.000.000 TO $5,000,000.

2...................................$1.000.000 TO $5,000,000.

3...................................$500.000 TO $1,000,000.

4...................................$250.000 TO $500,000.

5...................................$1.000.000 TO $5,000,000.

6...................................$1.000.000 TO $5,000,000.

Pelosi obviously has a conflict of interest regarding the bailout of the financial and banking institutions of the wall street cabal. Fairness requires that she and all other members of congress with such extensive ties to these institutions not be allowed to vote either for or against the bailout.

Pelosi and the others should only be allowed to vote “present” on the bailout.
Posted by Robert Brooks at 9:37 AM 0 comments; October 30, 2008 at 7:31 AM
Oberon said...: .....i don't mind if some people have more money than me......i just don't want to get screwed in the process.; October 30, 2008 at 6:45 PM
Strategicus said...: AN AMERICAN WHOSE THOUGHTS I REALLY LIKED:--

Monday, May 12, 2008
The Reality of It All
We as a nation have lost sight of the realities. What was, what was suppose to be, and what is, are not the same. We are fighting wars in places we have no place being, and giving billions of dollars in aid to countries that are becoming rich, while our country becomes poor.

We have lost sight of what America was supposed to be. We can't heal the world, while our own country lays dying in sickness and poverty, nor should we be expected to. At the same time, we shouldn't be trying to influence the whole world with our political and religious beliefs.

I quit the church because they kept wanting money for the "missions, and building fund," while they were letting people in our own community who were disabled and down on their luck suffer. My grandmother always said, "Clean up your own backyard, before you start trying to clean up others," and I am a firm believer in that.

As an American citizen, and a Vietnam veteran I am ashamed at what our country has become over the last century. All of this talk about a world economy, and the New World Order is going to be our down fall. We have allowed the left wing-liberals, and the right-wing fascist, to take over our government. Americans puts more money in other countries through government aid, and "Sunday School donations," than can be imagined, while the suffering in our own cities and villages never ends. We have allowed foreign powers, and illegal immigrants to come into our country and steal our very soul, and break our own economy. All of this as part of our desire to dominate the world through politics and religion, Sure I sympathize with the plight of people in other countries, but I believe that we have an obligation and a responsibility to take care of our own citizen first and foremost.

We have become a country that is on the one hand afraid of our own shadow; i.e the "war on terror," and on the other, a fascist regime set on an attempt at world domination. In the process we are becoming a third world country, and a welfare state.

We have allowed what were once American driven companies to become world power conglomerations, who have take good jobs, that were once America's life's force, and allowed them to be sent overseas with no penalty, and at the expense of the American citizenry. We have allowed them in their greed to form monopolies and conglomerations that that make a few men and women wealthy beyond reason in the name of capitalism, and in the process we have become no better off than our forefathers who were ruled by feudalism, where a few rich elite held sway over the masses. We have allowed our leaders to send our children and grandchildren into foreign lands to fight, and for some to die while others become hopelessly maimed, not for prevailing threats against our life, liberty, or happiness, but for the enrichment of greedy millionaires, billionaires, and the multinational conglomerations they own. We have invaded sovereign nations, influenced elections, and overthrown freely elected governments at the expense of millions of lives, all perpetrated by lies and deceit, for the benefit of nothing but greedy capitalist who desire to control the world and make peasants of all of us, while they become rich and maintain powers no man deserves.

Are there solutions to these problems? Yes, there are, but it's going to take a whole new revolution and mindset to ever do it. Why is it so unreasonable to believe that there should not be limits on the amount of wealth that any one individual or family should be allowed to accumulate? Why is it unreasonable to believe that companies and corporations should be limited on the amount of holding they can have? I am not advocating that the government should own and control everything as in communism, instead I believe that there should be equal and fair limitations set to insure that there is a fair and equal distribution of wealth in this country. I mean how many homes and cars can and do one family use and deserve? Why should one family be allowed to own ten homes across the world, while another American can't even afford to own one?

I am afraid that our forefathers and we have been sold a "pig-in-the-poke." Even our constitution was set-up and written by wealthy men, who were not willing to part with the wealth that they had accumulated at the expense of slaves, poor tradesman, and theft from the Native Americans. Many may be surprised to know that at the end of the Revolutionary War, George Washington was the richest man in America, and that men like John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson were all millionaires by todays standards. When they wrote all about freedom and liberty, it was about their freedom and liberty. Freedom and justice for all was a blatant lie. They never freed the slaves, they never gave the poor who didn't own property, and had fought alongside them in the war the right to vote, they never gave women equal rights, and they never made the Native Americans equal partners in the new venture we now call the United States of America. Only George Washington in later years was willing to free his slaves. They didn't, because they knew if they did, that they would have to relinquish part of the power and wealth that they had accumulated by their crooked dealings and at the expense of everyone they had trampled on, stole from and held in slavery.

My friends and fellow Americans you have been sold a cheap facsimile, of what could have been a great nation, and received no more than a "pig-in-the-poke" in return. Everyone owes it to their children, and their coming generations to educate themselves to what really is, and what really has been in this country, and what lies have been told, and realize what fools we have been made out to be. We as Americans owe it to ourselves and our generations to stand, and fight by whatever means are necessary to insure that what has happened is no longer allowed to continue. We must put it all on the line, and realize that in order for our country to be ever be truly great, all men and women must be able to live in a country, devoid of petty prejudice's, with respect and dignity and a true possibility to live in prosperity and freedom unabated with the shackles that now bind us. Then and only then can we rest assured that our children and their generations will have a future that is filled with hope and justice for all.

http://themanumitterpapers.blogspot.com/; October 30, 2008 at 7:22 PM
brad4d said...: Democracy is an experiment
to find supportive acceptance
of experimentation.
The test is to avoid denial,
even judgment uses discouragement
to deny advantage ideology.
Contentment responsibility means
relative care is shared.; November 2, 2008 at 11:53 AM