Don't Wanna Be An American Idiot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDR47EKTrCQ

The Subtle Differences Between Republicans And Democrats

Another day battling for the scraps of the ruling elite.

Under Bush:


The battle was between which private contractors could kill more people in Iraq and Afghanistan- for which oil giants who could exploit and reap the benfits in order for the maintenance and easy access to cheap fuel- to keep which corrupt international corporation at home making record surplus profits.


Under Obama:


The battle is between which international bank (Goldman Sachs) will inflitrate the fed and reduce interests rates to 1%- to take money from which underfunded public schools- to help eliminate their competition (Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns etc)- that will provide heavy unnecessary bonuses to which top executives running the economic heist.


Somehow this is still called a democracy?

Riddle Me This

Who exactly are the real terrorists?

http://adultthought.ucsd.edu/Culture_War/The_American_Taliban.html

Illegal Activism

Despite Mainstream Suppression, People Still Care About The Environment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHE-7_s9jj0&feature=player_embedded

10 Easy Steps Toward Becoming the CIA

Step 1: Make covert deals with middle eastern countries, exchanging arms for natural resources.

Step 2: Carefully moniter their "democratic" elections (generally support the more tyrannical candidates in order to maintain steady control of the region).

Step 3: When democracy prevails, but not in the direction you intended, send in troops to "stabilize" the area.

Step 4: Begin a rigorous ad campaign at home to make sure the public is a-ok with you attacking that nation (be sure to use words like communists, socialists, racists, terrorists etc).

Step 5: When available, be sure to support militant uprisings that have the potential to overthrow democratically elected leaders that disagree with your view.

Step 6: When the country falls into chaos, be sure to send in waves and waves of troops suppress any further uprisings.

Step 7: Construct clandestine prisons and round up "suspicious" people that might not want you in their homeland.

Step 8: Upgrade "techniques" (like simulating drowning, rubbing feces all over their bodies, rapings, beatings, attaching electrical cords to their testicles, tie them up and allow dogs to attack them etc) to get necessary information out of prisoners (such as where other people that disagree with your presence in their country might be).

Step 9: Disregard international human rights laws and treaties. NOTE: be sure not to apologise nor pay any reparations because these are signs of weakness.

Step 10: Justify all of your actions in the name of freedom and democracy.

Bush's Conservative Supreme Court Justices Strike Again

Whew! I thought for a minute there big business wasn't going to gain absolute freedom to do whatever it wants without a system of checks and balances, AND a safety net of public tax dollars. Close call...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/us/politics/22scotus.html?scp=2&sq=supreme%20court&st=cse

Obama: One Year

The radical centrist is finishing his first year in office amidst falling approval ratings, lack of promised universal health care, a late $787 trillion stimulus bill, and several wars in Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq, Pakistan. He is facing a rocky relationship with China after the Bush administration's arrogance, an escalation of violence in Afghanistan, clear flaws in the country's national security, the failure to close Guantanamo Bay and other bases, like in Okinawa.

Thousands losing their jobs every month, which means the 15% of America without health care is rising, bailouts to the banking industry with zero strings attached- the same people that nearly caused a global economic melt down, all out of the pockets of the American taxpayers.

Meanwhile, the republican opposition's sole goal is to see Obama fail miserably, without providing any alternatives, at the cost of the general public, and most specifically the working class.

Health Care
Being the largest contributor to the national deficit, health care is perhaps the most important issue on the table. How has Obama handled it?

He has given the congress the goal of re-creating the health care system, something that congress is not designed to do, these politicians are mostly reflexive players, but clearly the private system has failed and dragged taxpayers on for too long.

The feeble bill that has come out of this is one without a 'public option', has been approved of by the private insurance companies, and costs a pretty penny to make minor shifts in the health care industry that will help those with private health insurance as well as provide coverage to millions more, but it ultimately falls short of what the democrats could have done with this small window of opportunity to cut the deficit and reform the failed system.

The Economy
Obama quickly passed the Stimulus bill directly in office, in hopes that it would combat Bush's pathetic bill that failed miserably, and that it might have the same effect that the Chinese stimulus bill had on their economy, preventing them from the economic brink. But this remains to be seen.

War
Obama has continued the policy of fighting ridiculous wars that have nothing to do with America, and often conflict with the ideals of peace and freedom and democracy.
This can be seen in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq to name a few. While he has promised to decrease U.S. troops in Iraq, this too remains to be seen.
Meanwhile the majority of the population is against any of these atrocities.

To top it all off, the dominant conservative media in America continually attacks him as a "racist", after approving Sonia Sotomayor to the supreme court, labeling her a "racist". He is often called a "socialist", "Maoist", "Stalinist"- you name it they've played the name game and America's #1 News Station Fox News (owned by News Corp, who in turn owns about half of all of global media) is unrelenting in their absurd claims. First it was the false reporting on his muslim heritage, then the questioning of his American citizenship- reducing all political discourse to the mere idiocracies of yellow journalism.

Surrounded by this whole clusterfuck of propaganda, misinformation, corporatist rule, conservative bigotry, declining economy, hyper-nationalism...

One is left to wonder: Where has democracy gone in America?