It looks like Prime Minister Netanyahu is capitulating to US demands over Jerusalem.
The battle is not over. But with health care passing, Obama’s Presidency is rejuvenated while Bibi looks used up. As for AIPAC, this is a nightmare. The President who is taking them on has demonstrated he cannot be rolled.
Word in Washington is that behind the scene the deliveries of US materiel to Israel slowed early last week.
I doubt Netanyahu will last in office long. Was it really smart to publicly smack Biden’s face?
As for Obama, will he really beat both AIPAC and the entire American anti-health right in one 24 hour period?
DJ reads the health care bills (there are three of them), grinds the numbers, finds it all unduly complicated, deliberately evasive, and agrees with his House representative who is voting against it because it does little to cut costs or stop premiums from rising.
This isn't quite accurate. Bernanke only scatters money to Wall Street, not the rest of us
Then stop giving them money, Ben, and also stop protecting them, running interference for them, and refusing to release emails and documentation about them. Then people might think you actually mean what you say. Sheesh.
He sounds like the Pope talking about priestly pedophilia, we are deeply anguished that you are upset but we have no concrete plans to do anything aside from making a few unctuous noises about it and hope you don’t realize what slithering weasels we are.
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The shadow banking system is still alive and growing. According to a new paper (PDF) by the Levy Economics Institute of U Miss, the derivative exposure of Goldman Sachs was 33,823% of its assets in 2009 (as compared to 25,284% in 2008). They are still leveraged to the hilt and the US government is the backstop.
Record numbers of Californians are overwhelming food banks and county social service offices throughout the state.
One solution in Ventura County: volunteer gleaners to pick crops left behind by the commercial pickers. But they need more volunteers to get all the leftovers.
The primary goal of the project is to demonstrate that advanced control technology with energy storage can help expand the delivery of wind energy by effectively increasing the capacity of constrained transmission facilities in the area.
Power generated by the turbines will be stored for future use in the flywheels. IN addition, they flywheels aid in frequency regulation.
Congress is pretending to be investigating yet more criminality out of Goldman and out of the New York Fed, and specifically the nexus where the two streams intersect – Goldman’s very own/the Fed’s very ex-own, Stephen Friedman. We can’t wait to see how quick before this investigation quietly disappears.
Sen. Dodd calls for criminal probe into Lehman Brothers. See above, especially considering Dodd is a snake who routinely pretends to champion the little guy then reverses course at the last moment. However, they may need a few sacrificial lambs (conveniently from now-defunct investment banks) to throw to the growing mob of peasants with pitchforks outside.
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That’s just the way it is now. People’s attention is elsewhere, on the economy, healthcare, jobs. There’s no focus on the wars nor have the organizers of today’s marches changed tactics to meet our changed times. So, it’ll just be preaching to the choir and I bet not much of the choir shows up this time.
And I say that as someone who helped organize multiple, sometimes huge, anti-Iraq war protests from 2004-2007.
Also, it’s now obvious that much of the anti-Iraq war sentiment at earlier protests was really anti-Bush and many liberal and progressives don’t yet want to speak out against Obama. Add to that the organizer’s insistence on dragging in most every far left issue into the mix, as they always do, and you almost guarantee the mainstream won’t show up.
New tactics are needed, tactics that genuinely reach out to the mainstream and address their concerns. That’s how to build an authentic mass movement.
He expressed “shame and remorse” and said “your trust had been betrayed and your dignity has been violated” then managed to imply that secularization of society was at least partly to blame. Who knew that secularization was a factor in infants being beaten bloody and preteen boys being raped.
The rest is about what you’d expect from the man who, in 2001, ordered clergy under threat of excommunication to not cooperate with authorities and to never share information. There are no specific calls to action, no acknowledgment that the problem is massive and the cover-up huge. He doesn’t even call for the resignation of Cardinal Sean Brady of Ireland who was present when two victims were sworn to secrecy and who has stonewalled consistently about a viciously pedophile priest.
Larry Lessig is still working to push a Constitutional Amendment, but he’s got a new idea that’s really interesting: pass an amendment that doesn’t deny corporations are people, it just says they aren’t citizens. This would go a long way to allowing Congress to prevent unlimited corporate spending – especially by foreign interests – during the last 60 days of a campaign.
This is not about suppressing speech; on the contrary, I think we should encourage the broadest range of speech possible. Instead, this is about carefully and respectfully ensuring that our leaders are dependent on no one but the citizens whom they represent.
Marc Cooper reports from a Tea Party meeting in Arizona in support of Republican primary challenger J.D. Hawyorth against that well-known commie, Marxist McCain.
Heading this evening to a meeting of local Tea Party folks where J.D. will be the guest speaker. If there are any plans for credibile resistance to the Commie yolk being imposed by the Obama-McCain axis I will send out a coded message. Make the the diodes implanted in your neck on switched to receive mode.
It was the blog post heard ’round the world. When Charles Johnson wrote Why I Parted Ways With The Right in the space of a few minutes and posted it on his popular Little Green Footballs blog, he had no idea the firestorm it would set off. Nasty denunciations, death threats and a New York Times magazine feature article later, Charles Johnson joined me for a lively discussion about what happened to him, the Darwin-hating, know-nothing Creationists and the frenzied insanity (and racism) of the anti-Obama right.
