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freshwest's JournalFirst thing Ryan knows has to happen: 'You gotta get the state legislatures RED.'
And some still say there's no difference between parties, huh?Ryan sure thinks so, and wants those state legislatures to ratify an amendment to end birth citizenship.
He doesn't want to ratify the ERA, or end the electoral game of Citizen United. Unlike the Democratic Party, he has no interest in extending rights.
No, he wants to deny voting and other rights to people born here. The rights that his ancestors were given. Anyone who thinks when that line is crossed it will end there, is a fool.
After that they'll go after the women's vote, the non-property owner's vote, and finally get back to the pre-Civil War way of voting. No social mobility, no right to vote to change policies that effect lives.
They've already proven their intent to disenfranchise the poor, elderly, disabled and all minorities. It won't stop there, so we have to stop them from dragging this country backward.
Thanks for another episode in the life of our internet hero. Sorry, can't watch it right now.
Thanks for transcribing.I truly love this video, though. Go, Julian, Go!
The Tribulation, the persecution and killing of Christians in Revelations by the anti-Christ Obama.
That is a powerful narrative that is engrained into millions of children and the GOP has found a way to harness that belief.
The evidence is all around us, they say, from climate change to oil spills, sexuality they call unnatural, murders, drugs, this and that and on and on. You cannot remove this from the subconscious of most of them.
Talk radio and television preys upon these things continuously with psychological tools. They see things happening in the real world and call it fulfillment of prophecy.
It means just what Beck says it means, store goods, surround yourself with believers, reject all others as of satan, then arm yourself for the coming attacks, get as far away as you can from any kind of government.
Most of these folks don't have a strong grasp of scripture but are addicted to media. So it begins, 'accused of horrible things,' lies will be told about Christian leaders, and 'destroy us' is sending Christians to FEMA camps and next the slaughter of Christians.
Thus he inoculates the right wingers from any facts that go against the narrative. This is Conspiracy Theory at its most effective, since the storyline has existed for centuries and all he has to do is add to it.
Beck loves to focus on Nazis and the Holocaust to hide behind those victims and get that anxiety going here. 'Get out of your comfort zone' means to become a Christian Nationalist, secede from the USA, the only way to live while the forces of darkness (in more than one way) take over Earth.
Alex Jones and the NWO, same thing. It's all the same, all the way to the 'Zionist Bankster Cabal' stuff, that comes straight out of the old 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion' pushed by Third Reich, Stormfront, etc.
He's 'preaching to the choir.'
Let's just clear the air here (Warning, Glen Beck's Boston Nazis video):
Glenn Beck compares hunt for Boston Marathon bomber to Nazi GermanyApril 29, 2013 By Michael Ross
You had to know he would get around to it sooner or later.
This morning on his radio program, Glenn Beck spent several minutes discussing a photo reportedly taken during the hunt for suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev which shows a police officer riding in a Humvee who appears to be aiming his rifle up at the person taking the photo through a window...
Beck then claimed to find the image particularly disturbing because it reminded him of something he learned when visiting Auschwitz, which was that the Nazis would murder anyone who dared to so much as look out the window when they came to haul away Jewish families living in a neighborhood.
Glenn Beck compares the manhunt for the Boston Marathon bomber to the Nazis. Credit: Rightwingwatch.org
"So there were no eyewitnesses to anything because they had trained them," said Beck. "You make that mistake one time and the entire neighborhood and the town realize when they say stay in the house, they mean stay in your house. When they say don't look out the window, don't approach a window, don't look at what's going on, you don't or they'll kill you..."
A lot more goodies at link:
http://www.examiner.com/article/glenn-beck-compares-hunt-for-boston-marathon-bomber-to-nazi-germany
How very original...
He knows the intent of the Founders. WHO LOVES the Constitution? BARACK OBAMA, that's WHO!
Thanks for the link and tweet!
Thanks to The Obama Diary for the picture!
Obama Dares Graduates to Reject Cynical Voices (FULL VIDEO)
Published on May 5, 2013
President Barack Obama told college graduates Sunday that only their generation can break the cycle of a political system consumed by "small things" that works for the benefit of a few. (May 5)
He is calling these graduates to take on the task set for us by the Founding Fathers. But it is not only for those leaving college. The future is theirs - and ours - to win or lose.
An excellent video clip of this was posted by hue in the V&MM forum. Please K&R his video there and get it on the Greatest Page, my BOG friends:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017116732
FYI: This is a post in the BOG, or Barack Obama Group, which is A SAFE HAVEN for supporters of our President and his policies.
That would be me, see my other reply this thread.
Plenty of anti-semitism in the false flag videos on the Boston bombing. Alex Jones quickly made the Israeli claim. Others claim the bombing was a joint operation by Obama, the FBI and Mossad working at the orders of the 'Zionist Bankster Cabal and AIPAC.' Such speech results in violence world wide. This article came out early:
Friday, Apr 19, 2013 2:30 PM
Alex Jones: Suspects “look Israeli”
The conspiracy broadcaster wonders if the Jewish state may have had something to do with the Boston bombings
By Alex Seitz-Wald
In a video posted early this morning laying out a baroque narrative we can’t make heads or tails of, conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones came dangerously close to espousing a Jewish conspiracy theory, speculating that the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing might be Israelis.
Claiming that he had identified the suspect who remains at large, Jones boasted, “the media doesn’t even have this yet. The FBI will probably give it to them in a day.” In fact, the AP and cable news networks identified the two suspects just two or three hours later as Chechen brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
But despite supposedly knowing the ID of the suspect, Jones wasn’t above speculating about their nationality. “These guys kind of look like Israelis. I’m not saying Israel is involved in it, we don’t have any evidence of that. It’s just that they kind of look Israeli,” he said while pointing to an image of the suspects on a computer screen. He added that they could be “North African” or “Spanish-Muslims.” He did not speculate they were Chechens.
He also called MIT, where the suspects reportedly killed a police officer, “mind control central.”
http://www.salon.com/2013/04/19/alex_jones_on_chechen_suspects_these_guys_kind_of_look_like_israelis/
Video in question here:
FBI Orders You Not To Look At This!
He's got fans everywhere and says this stuff 24/7. Next month is his annual radio show talking about how the Israelis bombed the USS Liberty. It's no mystery what breeds this.
It's a variation from Paine's plan for those who have lost the means of production to others.
His Agrarian Justice was printed in its entirety on the SSA website in 2009:
http://www.ssa.gov/history/paine4.html
It is the first in the list here:
http://www.ssa.gov/history/histdocs.html
A search of the site shows more about the philosophy and history of SSA:
http://www.ssa.gov/history/index.html
I'd read it years before in high school history class. My latest search results found it here:
Thomas Paine’s Radicalism
http://riversong.wordpress.com/thomas-paines-radicalism/
A read of several authors we were taught in school are there at that link. I'm unsure why they use the term 'radical.' It is a natural effect of people being displaced by capital or by conquest. Those accumulations can still benefit the whole. But humans are no less human to one who believe as Paine and many of us do in the Rights of Man and should not bound by wealth, a social construct.
The accumulation of land or other valuables is often unjust. Yet we are human beings and part of a whole. Conservatives once admitted the justice of this and supported taxes for it. But we've been dragged into a cesspool by 'cranky billionaires' who demonize those they robbed while following Ayn Rand.
Full justice between classes is unlikely to ever be met, due to different starting points in life. The 'radical' link does not care much for the faulty 'progressive' solution, but the living cannot wait for the perfect solution or utopia. Socialism in the Americas was an outgrowth of utopianism, but a consensus on how to get there has not been made, and possibly never will be.
I love this OP. The removal of power from an intermediary that can be corrupted and steal value. An unconditional and firm level of support is the justice which frees the river of human creativity. An unspoken baseline is what we need to achieve while fending off the sociopathic billionaires and their poisonous teachings.
David Korten speaks of an inverse pyramid of power, in which each person's ability and ideas will expand up from each person outward to solve world problems. Without a baseline set without judgement, we will never get the peace and justice that Thomas Paine calls for.
Not presupposing anyone at DU hasn't been taught or read these ideas years ago, but here are some links. These were basic studies in the sixties and seventies in public school but I don't know what is taught now. It was the foundation of our beliefs about civil rights and how government should be:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrarian_Justice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_of_Man
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Reason
Thanks for bringing these ideas. I hope this heralds a turnabout in the conditions of women in India, not forced to live lives dictated as they have been, or sacrifice their lives in unsafe factories as we saw recently.
IDK. The only real negativity I see is on the net and news. The people where I live are unfailingly
kind and generous, forward looking and tolerant.They have struggles but they don't sink down into a pit of bitterness and despair. And I have seen many die way before their time in my life, people that I would give anything to just see the love in their eyes, for only one more moment, to hear their voice. It cannot be.
I know that it sounds nuts, but I've found in my later years that people give you back the same energy that you give to them. Complete strangers even.
And I am not looking as I once did, my step is no longer the lope that I enjoyed that showed my pleasure with life. I have little money and possibly less of the pleasures that many take for granted. And my friends and family are no different.
I've found that all or nothing, always and never, are not really true in our infinite existance. Some years back I began to talk with people around the world. Their lives were not without pain or loss. But they showed me their lives, and even when we discuss climate change and destruction, is not all there is. Not even in this country.
I remember being glad to see that there were millions of acres of land that was not polluted, not turned over to commerical use, suburbia, concrete, auto exhaust. And there are many beautiful places in the Americas as well. But we don't see that much, our focus is too narrow. Yet they are there, co-existing with our visions of misery.
I am deeply concerned at what I see as the finer or delicate and loving things in life being swept away, but deliberately choose to not associate with loud, rude or aggressive persons. They are a tiny minority where I live, and have settled into what I only can describe as lower or earthly vibration, all things are heavy and dark with them. That's not the majority of people, not even the median.
I also know we are each made for our time, the resonance or songs that we sing like birds calling out to each other in the trees, wanting to hear the echo of memory. There is a sense of bereavement when one's family or friends or songs that we once sang with them disappear from our mileau. Even if it sounds gloomly, it is inevitable, we are made for only a season.
Charles Sanders Pierce said:
'If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when every thing in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.'
Another person said:
Put that way, death can be seen as a blessing. A way to hold on to some of your ideals and beliefs, to not get completely embittered by life.
All things pass, pain and evil, pleasure and great. That's all I have to say, but probably have said too much.
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