September 26, 2008 archive

An Alternative To the Bush Bailout

A friend sent this to me, and I want it all over the Web. Wanna help America? Demand this program.

http://gentillygirl.com/2008/0…

Overnight Caption Contest

Bail-out blackmail

Original article, by Mick Brooks, via Socialist Appeal (UK):

Last week US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson unveiled a dramatic plan to arrest the present financial crisis and prevent future economic catastrophe.

Dreaming The World Into Being

cross posted from The Dream Antilles

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Q’ero Shamans Don Francisco (l) and Don Humberto (r)

A Q’ero shaman from high in the Peruvian Andes will visit my home in early October to share the wisdom that the Inka Elders have kept alive for thousands of years.  I’m really excited again to welcome to my home my Q’ero spiritual brother, Don Francisco, and Shaman friends from across the US.

McCain & Forced Removal of Navajo: ’74 – ’96 (Edited)

Just what was one method of forced removal McCain used to bring about this?


ACSA study reveals that after assembling a team of “pro-Peabody Western Coal” Indians and obtaining a false “Hopi-Navajo” Tribal Counsel designation by the Bureau of Indian Affairs for these paid Tribal representatives, in the period 1974-1996, Senator McCain was able to get large bands of the Dineh-Navajo relocated off their lands, so that Peabody Western could mine the coal under their farms at nominal expense. Common Cause has suggested McCain was indirectly compensated by street name cash contributions to his Federal Election Fund during three Presidential runs, and through family business with Las Vegas Casinos who benefited from the coal driven power he supplied.

In 1974 the U.S. Government legally endorsed genocide when Congress passed Public Law 93-531, which enabled Peabody Coal Company to strip mine Black Mesa by ripping the traditional Navajo and Hopi peoples from the land.

Let’s talk about the Bennet Freeze.

Lucky Pony Party

the other day edger put his finger on my problem…..

and yesterday was just a horrible day for me.

but i had a coupla very good friends remind me, in very different ways, to count my blessings.

you see, i’d forgotten. I’m dizzy from all this spinning….

Court Smacks Palin Down on Native Alaskan Moose Hunt



Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, avid helicopter hunter and lifetime NRA member, has opposed native subsistence rights ever since she came into office.  Tuesday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said “Thanks but no thanks” to her ongoing efforts to ban indigenous moose harvest.

Federal trust responsibility for Native people meant that the Federal Subsistence Management program followed all appropriate procedures in its ruling for moose harvest by the Cheesh-na Athabaskans of the tiny inland village of Cristochina.

“Palin’s attack here has targeted (among others) the Ahtna Indian people in Chistochina; and although the federal court last year rejected this challenge, too, Palin has refused to lay down her arms,” wrote Kendall-Miller and her husband, Lloyd Miller, another prominent Native rights attorney.

The State’s challenge was rejected on straightforward legal grounds.  It seems unlikely that the Supreme Court will hear a further appeal should Palin take time out from the campaign trail to pursue it.  This decision will probably stand.  With more GOP judges appointed?  Perhaps not…

Zero Honesty, Zero Future

It is after all that simple.  Proof of the secret government/Bilderburg/Illuminati/Globocorp in total control of the entire world can be found in any of the talking points of media lackeys and their designed confinement of this “debate” to the intelligence level of a five year old.  Please don’t torture us anymore, go back to the nuclear confrontation with Russia, please.  I can point to any “news” screen and tell my grandson “asshole”, “retard”, or even “agent of the Illuminati”.

The solution?  Many people need a maximum security cell in a prison like Attica with a 6′ 5 295 pound black guy with a huge desire for sex named Bubba.  This was from 2006.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/…

http://www.dailykos.com/story/…

What day is it? Well it’s 1929.

Hello, RE Max, what do you have in line with a David Koresh style survivalist compound?  It has to be isolated and some plantable fields to grow food.

Golden years?  Pension from Enron sans bank to cash severance check.  The breadlines of October.

A flawed business model

As I expressed in an essay earlier this week, I continue to try to understand the risk our economy is facing that has led to all the focus on whether or not to support a bailout plan. I don’t think that anyone has yet made a clear case to the American people about what’s at stake here. I must admit that I didn’t listen to the President last night and haven’t really read much about what he said. But I think that, like most Americans, I wouldn’t believe what he had to say anyway.

So I continue to try to read and learn what I can in order to better understand what’s happening. The reality I’m finding is that predictions are pretty garbled in econospeak and tend to be focused on what will happen to corporate America. But there are some themes that are getting through this non-economist’s brain that have me asking some questions.

Here’s an example from Steven Levitt’s Freakonomics column in the NYT.

The concern for the man on Main Street is…the collective inability of major financial institutions to find funding.

As their own funding dries up, the remaining financial firms will be much more cautious in extending credit to normal firms and individuals. So even for people whose own circumstances have not much changed, the cost of the credit is going to rise. For an individual or business that falls behind on payments or needs an increase in short-term credit because of the slowing economy, credit will be much harder to obtain than in recent years.

This is going to slow growth. We have not seen this much stress in the financial system since the Great Depression, so we do not have any recent history to rely upon in quantifying the magnitude of the slowdown.

 

Rocket surgeons: Republicans and epic stupidity

Is it just me, or are these guys just epically stupid?

Try this one:

Rocket Science

Lots of people I greatly respect, from Glenn Greenwald to dday, are wondering aloud whether Sarah Palin is an ignoramus or whether she is carefully avoiding revealing her true beliefs. And while I do think there is plenty of the latter going on, it is also now terrifyingly obvious that the former is also true. So, I’ll say it: Sarah Palin is an idiot. Steve Soto was right when he immediately recognized her deer-in-the-headlights vacant stare. Because you can see it in her eyes. You can see it in how she struggles to come up with even the most basic evasive answers. Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of watching her jaw-dropping interviews is that you can actually see her thinking. Or trying to think. And it is not pretty.

There is a pervasive myth in the corporate media that Bush is actually much smarter than he seems. The rationale, such as it is, insists that because he has clever Machiavellian political instincts, there’s something deeper and more sophisticated going on than most people realize. But what the purveyors of this drivel don’t realize is that they, themselves, are not particularly smart. At its most base level- which is the level on which Bush, McCain, Palin, and the entire ratfucking Rovian Republican paradigm operate- the level of a sewer- politics is actually pretty simple. It requires a fierce lust for power and attention, but no more intellectual nuance than does playground bullying. It’s not about issues or ideas, it’s about knocking heads against walls and making people bleed. And that’s what this brand of politics has given us- a president, and now a nominee for vice-president, with the intelligence, maturity, and capacity for greatness of generic playground bullies.

Sarah Palin is an idiot. It’s okay to say it. Because it’s true.

Anti-Trust – Resurrect Sherman

Well, I’m a little late to the party, but that should be OK.

It seems as if Wall Street is going to get much of what they want in this upcoming bailout bill, but they’re not going to get all of it.

From Handout to Bailout

It looks like our elected officials showed a bit of spine and common sense in taking this from ‘handout’ to bailout and have placed some checks and balances on the handing over of $700 large to the extortionists on Wall Street.

But the key aspect of this situation is that it was still extortion.

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