Mc Mike
Mc Mike's JournalByzantine (Byzantian?) politically, though.
There's the good Lib Theologians who are 'duck and cover'-ing, due to Ratzinger's Latin American slap-down. Then there's the ultra-right wingers that produced an Opus Dei adherent like Clarence Thomas. I personally felt burned by the aftermath of Daniel Sheehan's Iran-Contra 'activism'.
I'd be interested to hear Umberto Eco's thoughts on the transfer of power from General Kolvenbach to Gen. Nicolas. As a piker, I could observe that Avery Dulles, SJ (J.F. Dulles' son) was made a Cardinal by JPII, while Father Tom Reese and Kolvenbach were forced out by JPII and Ratzinger.
You already have a 'second' on your motion that SJ speaks up. I vote in favor, too. +1 to your motion, and the o.p.
What ever is most nazi-like is the repugs' default position.
You may recall the involuntary sterilization scandals at inner city US health clinics, in Puerto Rico, and on reservations through the IHS. And there is a years-long waiting list to adopt healthy white babies, but we have many non-white babies and white non-babies in the foster care system.
The repugs are doing like Hitler to make the woman's body the property of the state, like a factory that's been nationalized. But they only want the white ones to bear children, and they want our sisters and brothers of color not to reproduce at all.
So they achieve two goals jailing the women you reference. They get to attack all women, to take over white womens' bodies, & they get to attack people of color. Icing on the cake for them that their pig buddies make money from the prison system, via sweetheart contracts and privatization.
Of course, the word of one anonymous individual isn't worth much.
(Reminds me of our Motown discussion.) I never taped D's lectures. Only offering a caveat, an assertion I can't prove. So my grain of salt advice could be taken with a grain of salt.
Szasz marketed himself as a progressive activist when seeking to advise me on Political Sociology thesis material. I still have a pub from him on the corporate industrial - org crime connection in illegal toxic waste disposal, with paid-off gov oversight officials looking the other way. At least we agree he isn't progressive, but everyone isn't on the same page as us:
http://news.ucsc.edu/2011/08/szasz.html
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Andrew_Szasz
The whole U. marketed itself as progressive up 'til the end of the '80's, it functioned as a 'hippy holdover' activist ghetto for the UC system (more than UCB, which was a lot bigger and more diverse, with a nastier crowd-control police force). But the grisly ultra-right underbelly of the institution was provided by Regents appointed by Govs Raygun and Deukmejian. The swinish G. Lease's hit-piece (S.C. Sentinel) on HisCon alum H. P. Newton, immediately after his murder in Oakland, was a good case in point.
By '90 the U had a 'United Colors of Benetton' - looking marketing campaign for prospective new students, they bull dozed elfland, they built Nat Sci #umpteen. It was interesting watching Fusari inveigh against student trail bike riders for the erosion harm they were causing on-campus, while 6 inches of topsoil was washing down into the parking lot of her new Environmental Studies digs at the brand new college 8 site. All three of the night proctors at the old 8 dorm-space in Porter were Birchers, one of whom had a metal arm prosthesis due to a bottle-bomb experiment he had misperformed when younger. Grisly underbelly.
Profs from the E.S. Dept could also be divvied up into good (Pepper, Cooley, Curry, O'Connor) vs misrepresentational (Lease, Farrell, Letourneax, Fusari). I never gave Gliessman's AgroEcology a shot, but the sustainable Ag co-op was good.
Some stellar profs of that time were the Smiths for His Con, King for of World Religion, Rotkin for Mass Media and Comm., Aptheker for Women's Studies, Collett at the Arboretum, half of the Soc. Dept, half of the E.S. Dept. Sluggo's surly hippy staffers were a riot. I'll still spare a coin for the seal statue's nose below nat sci 1.
Updated stats prove that Rand's post #s 72 and 90 are funnier than his #34.
He has 13 out of 92 posts, from the anti-o.p. end. Bop has 16. Those two are 'dynamic' on this o.p.
Sad that rand dropped from 16.7% to 14%, but bop rose to > 17%. Overall, the team went down from 33% to 31.5, but still receive the silver and gold medals for the anti team.
Maybe Dan Briody's 'The Halliburton Agenda'.
Briody reported that:
Johnson's deal with Herman Brown freed the Texas delegation to oppose the virulently anti-union John N. Garner, and back FDR in '40 instead, which gave freshman New Dealer Rep. Johnson leverage to win navy contracts for the Browns from Prez Roosevelt (p. 77).
The break between Brown and Johnson came when Johnson campaigned against Brown's antilabor national right-to-work legislation and also accepted the vp slot, in '60, (pp. 149 -50) after being outmaneuvered by the MA machine.
Halliburton ate Brown and Root (147) and Brown croaked (151) in '62.
Subsidiary B & R joined 3 other construction conglomerates to form a group that called themselves RMK-BRJ, in '65, which did $2 billion worth of work in Vietnam, in cost-plus contracts that B&R got 20% of. 40% of the money was stolen, $5 million was wasted in the first year of work in the country. They did 97% of the construction work in Vietnam during their 7 years of contracts. They built roads, cities, pipelines, hospitals, warehouses, bases, jetways in Da Nang, Chulai, Phangrang. (164-5.) (Seems to me that a stellar way to smuggle drugs is to do a ton of construction work on operating air-fields and their warehouses, but Briody didn't say that.)
George Brown was targeted by anti-Viet war protestors in '71, who handed him a 'special award' at a U of TX alumni honors ceremony held on his behalf -- they 'awarded' him a picture of the infamous tiger cages that were used for prison cells. Foreshadows KBR' s contract 30 years later to build GITMO prison in Cuba (pp. 166-7).
L'il bush era Halliburton KBR caused the deaths of at least 18 US soldiers and marines, electrocuted in war-zone base showers, by faulty wiring of water heaters in a cost plus contract. (Death toll as of '09, not final.) Like Blackwater-Xe-Academi, Halliburton is involved in a child sex slave trafficking scandal (source Chicago Trib 12-27-05, not blowhard Bircher A. Jones), a real one unlike O'Keefe's ACORN fake.
Tip O'Neill said Johnson was Sam Rayburn's protege, like O'Neill was John McCormack's (Boston-Austin axis), at 'The Board of Education' meetings. Which were held in the first floor of the Capitol, behind the members' dining room. Meetings were a tradition from Speaker Nick Longworth and John Nance Garner. (from O'Neill's 'Man of the House', p. 127.) That's where Johnson got his legislative savvy and connections. Johnson broke against Garner and Brown, for FDR, JFK, and labor. His insider knowledge of the Legislative branch helped him get things done as prez, as much as the Dem leg. majorities did.
MI complex contractors took America to the cleaners on Vietnam, a war which Johnson was forced to prosecute after late Nov. of '63. He used the situation to tell the big money people 'We have to give the American people something, or they'll slit your throats.' This resulted in Civil Rights, Great Society, Medicare, etc. They weren't a bribe and distraction, like Nixon's EPA and Cultural Preservation Act, but done with the same motivating factor.
WWII vet Vonnegut was really p.o. ed that they took Armistice Day,
a memorial to peace, and militarized it. The WWI vets didn't want 'The War to End All Wars' to happen again.
Separate issue: do you remember when Poppy bush was campaigning (9-7-88) and told his audience that September 7 was the anniversary of Pearl Harbor? Strange mistake for a Pacific theater WWII 'hero' to make. Previously, he had twice mislabeled Memorial Day, at the Kennebunkport Memorial Day event (5-30-88), as 'Veterans Day'.
+1 to your post for the correction Sirv, and +1 to the o.p. I just chimed in for the opportunity to bash the oil nazis.
Fire posted a vid from ABC 7, Chi, 2x
Says ~ min 12 sec 45 (14 min vid) that the bb s were travelling west along with dispersing protestors, and were forced back east by the police. They were already blocked to the south, and east. That 'kettling' makes a dispersal order unhelpful.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=710141
Wnd's eyewitness accounts are only good for the part of the field s\he was in. The photo sequence is incomplete, because it starts with the white shirted officer's helmet already off, which doesn't necessarily show an unprovoked attack on that officer. Doesn't show either side before the start of the altercation. When I see an officer with an old-style night stick, instead of the Okinawa-style grain grinder model, I think that officer is harking back to the 'good old days' of police-community relations. My opinion may be wrong, but that officer's bosses created the whole situation with the kettling.
There was no legit reason people couldn't march south in the first place. In Pgh.'s G-20 (the 9-25-09 march), the cops arbitrarily enforced bridge and street closures which clearly contradicted my State Rep.'s official route info, and the official established 'free speech' zone directly E-NE of the Convention center. Nobody was allowed to even approach the area. The cops were Keystone to a Chinese Fire drill degree. The field commanders made up the rules on the fly, to make a moving and constantly enveloping kettle around the legally permitted marchers, with overwhelming manpower on all sides, as they shunted the protest across the river from the G-20 site, tastefully out of the range of the WB and IMF big-shots.
If I saw a protestor launch an unprovoked attack on a cop, I'd do my best to restrain them, before the cops responded to the attack by ravaging the rest of the innocent protestors. All cops aren't bad, but they're bad in large groups, listening to their pin-head bosses. I don't want any physical harm to come to women or men who are on the job. But there isn't a large casualty list on the law enforcement side, and there is one on the protestors' side.
Either cops start the violence, or u.c. cops start the violence, or some agro protestor whose brain is in pawn to the system (so s\he is working for that cop system) starts the violence. So now it's obviously time for all DU hands to call each other cops, and pick which of the 3 flavors of cop they want to back, against other DU people. Sweet mother of mercy, we could screw up a 2 car funeral.
(cross posted as a re to posts 53, 60 in the link you just posted. That's ME screwing up a 2 car funeral. Sorry. Har har.)
+1, Thanks. Good analysis.
Prof. Klein's 'Shock Doctrine' talked about a lot of Third World nations turning their backs on WTO, IMF, and World Bank (pp 576-8, in her chapter 'Shock Wears Off'), by going with the ALBA (Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas.) Greece isn't 3rd world, but it might as well be.
Brazil, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Argentina, Equador, Bolivia all gave the finger to the banksters. The IMF's lending portfolio went from 80% Latin America in '05 to 1% in '07. Argentina's Kirchner said "There is life after the IMF, and it's a good life." The 'Financial Times' reported that when World Bank managers dispensed [austerity] advice to the developing world, "they were now laughed at." The Latins appear to be mirroring the Yeltsin group's strategy, when they all pulled their Republics out from under Gorbachev, and reassembled them into a new Russia, not ruled by Gorby. It would be good if Greece could join a Southern Hemisphere oriented alternative to western banksters, along with all the other nations getting bled by the financial leeches. The country is like a frog in a skillet, they have to jump some way. Why not jump toward giving their people hope? At minimum, Greece has a lot of shipping capacity to offer any new financial cooperative that they join.
Hitler's nazis promised to give the finger to banks and corporations, but were the flunkies of those financial interests. They were created by big money interests, and completely subservient to them. Fascism was defined as 'Corporatism + Reaction'. Hopefully the Greeks will see through the nazi flunkies' lies, despite their country's current level of austere misery and financial shock.
Here's an oldie but goodie,
re terror threats \ incidents from our two main political parties:
Governor Walker (repug-WI), says his office never saw that e-mail (by that other repug, from IN).
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/walkers-offi...
"Gov. Scott Walker's (R-WI) staff says that no one on the staff ever read an e-mail sent to them in February by a deputy prosecutor in Johnson County, Ind., which encouraged the Walker administration to stage a "false flag" assault or assassination attempt on Walker in order to discredit unions in the Wisconsin political battle over Walker's anti-public employee union legislation." -- Josh Michael Marshall's blog, 3/25/11.
So either an actual terror threat or incident occurs, and it's the repugs doing it to Dems, or a fake 'threat' or 'incident' occurs, and it's prefabricated by the repugs, and pinned on the Dems.
On edit, try this link instead:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/indiana-prosecutor-encouraged-false-flag-assault-on-walker-to-discredit-wisconsin-unions.php
The bosses control wages, and the workers can't control prices.
Collective bargaining is the only way to try to squeeze a living wage out of the ownership class. Your aunt is getting her talking points from repug 'christians', who get them from Ralph Reed and Rove, who get them from their rich masters.
The cost drivers for her industry are the for-profit hospital system, the parasitic insurance industry, and big Pharma. The costs for health care have gone up hundreds of percentage points, and most of the health care workers make beans. There's no profit sharing.
Even a 'non-profit' like U Pitt Med Center made $600 mil in profits in one year, while paying no taxes. They hid the profits in subsequent years by buying up local hospitals (the competition) and shutting them down; buying foreign hospitals; undertaking unnecessary building and renovation projects at their many hospitals; purchasing supplies and services from industry insiders via sweetheart contracts, with kickbacks to administrators. The unionized and non-union hospital workers still get none of the money generated by the UPMC system.
UPMC bought Children's Hospital, then built an (unnecessary) new Children's Hospital complex, causing the total amount of property in Pgh that is non-taxable because it's owned by 'non-profits' to top 40%. That means the tax-paying workers pay more taxes, and get less services to boot.
It's funny how the teabag repugs scream and cry about taxing the rich, saying 'you can't punish success, Americans want shared prosperity, not shared sacrifice.' Then the teabags scream and cry about a unionized worker making almost a living wage, saying 'how dare they make so much money, they're too prosperous, the economy is bad and we need shared sacrifice.' While Wall St and the rich are making more money than ever before. Heads-repugs win, tails-America loses.
I guess you love your aunt, and are trying to reach her with reason. Good luck, Erik.
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