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US created more jobs abroad in 2010
Friday, December 31, 2010
Dear Editor,
A new study by the Economic Policy Institute has found that US-based companies created more jobs overseas this year than they did inside the United States. Overseas, 1.4 million jobs were created, versus less than one million in the United States. At the firm DuPont, the number of US employees has shrunk by nine per cent since 2005, while its work force grew by 54 per cent in Asia-Pacific countries. At Caterpillar, more than half of the 15,000 people hired this year were outside the United States.
Not only is the US robbing the poor countries who can no longer sell their goods to America, but they are robbing their own public who can no longer buy cheap foreign products. The US refuses to help the poor countries by buying their cheap products, insisting on protecting their own rich wages and industries. It's just plain greed and selfishness. If governments were to worry more about feeding their people or feeding the other poor and needy of the world instead of arming themselves or fighting their neighbours, then there wouldn't be nearly so many undernourished people.
Ted Rudow III, MA
California, USA
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Dear Editor: A new study by the Economic Policy Institute has found that U.S.-based companies created more jobs overseas this year than they did inside the United States. Overseas, 1.4 million jobs were created, versus less than 1 million in the United States. At DuPont, the number of U.S. employees has shrunk by 9 percent since 2005, while its work force grew by 54 percent in Asia-Pacific countries. At Caterpillar, more than half of the 15,000 people hired this year were outside the United States.
Not only is the United States robbing the poor countries that can no longer sell their goods to us, but it also is robbing its own public who can no longer buy cheap foreign products. The U.S. refuses to help poor countries by buying their cheap products, insisting on protecting its own rich wages and industries. It's just plain greed and selfishness. If governments were to worry more about feeding their people or feeding the other poor and needy of the world instead of arming themselves or fighting their neighbors, then there wouldn't be nearly so many undernourished people.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Dear Editor: A new study by the Economic Policy Institute has found that U.S.-based companies created more jobs overseas this year than they did inside the United States. Overseas, 1.4 million jobs were created, versus less than 1 million in the United States. At DuPont, the number of U.S. employees has shrunk by 9 percent since 2005, while its work force grew by 54 percent in Asia-Pacific countries. At Caterpillar, more than half of the 15,000 people hired this year were outside the United States.
Not only is the United States robbing the poor countries that can no longer sell their goods to us, but it also is robbing its own public who can no longer buy cheap foreign products. The U.S. refuses to help poor countries by buying their cheap products, insisting on protecting its own rich wages and industries. It's just plain greed and selfishness. If governments were to worry more about feeding their people or feeding the other poor and needy of the world instead of arming themselves or fighting their neighbors, then there wouldn't be nearly so many undernourished people.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Thursday, December 30, 2010
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Adding further to the mounting problems facing our state, California's credit rating is the lowest in the nation. The state pays a 1.1 percent interest rate—1.1 percent higher than other states—which leads to an added $12 billion in interest to pay off $54 billion in debts.
Jerry Brown's newly named controller, John Chiang, says the state does not appear to be facing a cash crisis through the end of the fiscal year, but thereafter, "we see a very different story."
Rich people have borrowed themselves into debts that they can never repay. Poor people have done the same. Middle-class people have done the same. So if the slightest little thing gets out of balance or goes off in any way, the whole thing crashes like a bunch of dominoes! Everyone loses, except the ones who loaned the money and now own everything. The mortgages that were sold to banks, pension funds and investors were packaged in such a complex way that they practically defied understanding. As a result, many financial firms aren't even sure how much money they've lost yet—or how much the remainder of their mortgage-backed assets are worth.
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Adding further to the mounting problems facing our state, California's credit rating is the lowest in the nation. The state pays a 1.1 percent interest rate—1.1 percent higher than other states—which leads to an added $12 billion in interest to pay off $54 billion in debts.
Jerry Brown's newly named controller, John Chiang, says the state does not appear to be facing a cash crisis through the end of the fiscal year, but thereafter, "we see a very different story."
Rich people have borrowed themselves into debts that they can never repay. Poor people have done the same. Middle-class people have done the same. So if the slightest little thing gets out of balance or goes off in any way, the whole thing crashes like a bunch of dominoes! Everyone loses, except the ones who loaned the money and now own everything. The mortgages that were sold to banks, pension funds and investors were packaged in such a complex way that they practically defied understanding. As a result, many financial firms aren't even sure how much money they've lost yet—or how much the remainder of their mortgage-backed assets are worth.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Friday, December 24, 2010
Peace continues to elude us.
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December 15, 2010
Although peace has been the goal of mankind for thousands of years – and the desire for peace is never so great as it is at Christmas – it seems that our ability to find or establish peace continues to elude us.
Today, after the end of the Cold War, bloody hostilities continue on nearly every continent, reaching global proportions once again after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, in New York City, Washington and Pennsylvania. As Pete Seeger’s well-known folk song from the ‘60s asked, “Where have all the flowers gone? … When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?” True peace on every level – from international conflicts to our personal lives – has become more difficult than ever to achieve. “And in Bethlehem today, children fear, yet still they play while mothers cry and fathers pray for peace to come again. And around the weary world echoes the refrain:
“‘Christmas in Bethlehem, when shall true love reign?’ One day soon the Prince of Love, will return from skies above, and his power shall overcome all pain and tears and war. Then shall songs of joy and praise ring out from shore to shore. Christmas in Bethlehem, peace on Earth once more. Christmas in Bethlehem, peace on Earth once more.”
Ted Rudow III, MA
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Sam Bahour
“Restructure the mediation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict”
December 15, 2010
Although peace has been the goal of mankind for thousands of years – and the desire for peace is never so great as it is at Christmas – it seems that our ability to find or establish peace continues to elude us.
Today, after the end of the Cold War, bloody hostilities continue on nearly every continent, reaching global proportions once again after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, in New York City, Washington and Pennsylvania. As Pete Seeger’s well-known folk song from the ‘60s asked, “Where have all the flowers gone? … When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?” True peace on every level – from international conflicts to our personal lives – has become more difficult than ever to achieve. “And in Bethlehem today, children fear, yet still they play while mothers cry and fathers pray for peace to come again. And around the weary world echoes the refrain:
“‘Christmas in Bethlehem, when shall true love reign?’ One day soon the Prince of Love, will return from skies above, and his power shall overcome all pain and tears and war. Then shall songs of joy and praise ring out from shore to shore. Christmas in Bethlehem, peace on Earth once more. Christmas in Bethlehem, peace on Earth once more.”
Ted Rudow III, MA
Menlo Park, California, United States
International Herald Tribune and The Daily Star are available every morning in: Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman
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From its first publication in 1843, A Christmas Carol has charmed and inspired millions. Less well known is the fact that this little book of celebration grew out of a dark period in the author’s career-and, in some ways, changed the course of his life forever . In a very real sense, Dickens popularized many aspects of the Christmas we celebrate today, including great family gatherings, seasonal drinks and dishes and gift giving. Even our language has been enriched by the tale. Who has not known a “Scrooge,” or uttered “Bah! Humbug!” when feeling irritated or disbelieving. And the phrase “Merry Christmas!” gained wider usage after the story appeared. A Christmas Carol may become an even more relevant tale as people cope with what is expected to be an economically bleak holiday season. Fast forward to 2010, and America is in an acute economic crisis. There are a number of similar themes, including the increasing gap between the rich and poor. People in the working class are losing their homes or struggling to heat their homes, and we're going into the holiday season with anticipated layoffs and high unemployment. For many, it looks like a pretty dreary Christmas. The message in A Christmas Carol also says it's not just good enough to donate money, but individuals need to get involved, as Scrooge learns in the end. This is a message we can all keep in mind this year. You never lose by giving.
Ted Rudow III,MA
December 22, 2010
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From its first publication in 1843, A Christmas Carol has charmed and inspired millions. Less well known is the fact that this little book of celebration grew out of a dark period in the author’s career-and, in some ways, changed the course of his life forever . In a very real sense, Dickens popularized many aspects of the Christmas we celebrate today, including great family gatherings, seasonal drinks and dishes and gift giving. Even our language has been enriched by the tale. Who has not known a “Scrooge,” or uttered “Bah! Humbug!” when feeling irritated or disbelieving. And the phrase “Merry Christmas!” gained wider usage after the story appeared. A Christmas Carol may become an even more relevant tale as people cope with what is expected to be an economically bleak holiday season. Fast forward to 2010, and America is in an acute economic crisis. There are a number of similar themes, including the increasing gap between the rich and poor. People in the working class are losing their homes or struggling to heat their homes, and we're going into the holiday season with anticipated layoffs and high unemployment. For many, it looks like a pretty dreary Christmas. The message in A Christmas Carol also says it's not just good enough to donate money, but individuals need to get involved, as Scrooge learns in the end. This is a message we can all keep in mind this year. You never lose by giving.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Sunday, December 19, 2010
What's Next for Iran?
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"Containment is off the table ... not to just neutralize their nuclear program, but to sink their navy, destroy their air force and deliver a decisive blow to the Revolutionary Guard, in other words neuter that regime." ~ Sen. Lindsey Graham
With a resurgent and radical right-wing moving into Washington, the pressure will be on President Obama to “confront” Iran over it's alleged nuclear weapons program...
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A conversation with ALI FERDOWSI
Professor and Chair, Department of History and Political Science
Notre Dame de Namur University
"Containment is off the table ... not to just neutralize their nuclear program, but to sink their navy, destroy their air force and deliver a decisive blow to the Revolutionary Guard, in other words neuter that regime." ~ Sen. Lindsey Graham
With a resurgent and radical right-wing moving into Washington, the pressure will be on President Obama to “confront” Iran over it's alleged nuclear weapons program...
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Dickens tale relevant in today’s gloomy economy
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From its first publication in 1843, “A Christmas Carol” has charmed and inspired millions. Less well-known is the fact that this little book of celebration grew out of a dark period in the author’s career and, in some ways, changed the course of his life forever.
In a very real sense, Dickens popularized many aspects of the Christmas we celebrate today, including great family gatherings, seasonal drinks and dishes and gift giving. Even our language has been enriched by the tale. Who has not known a Scrooge, or uttered “Bah! Humbug!” when feeling irritated or disbelieving. And the phrase “Merry Christmas!” gained wider usage after the story appeared.
“A Christmas Carol” may become an even more relevant tale as people cope with what is expected to be an economically bleak holiday season. Fast-forward to 2010, and America is in an acute economic crisis. There are a number of similar themes, including the increasing gap between the rich and poor. People in the working class are losing their homes or struggling to heat their homes, and we’re going into the holiday season with anticipated layoffs and high unemployment. For many, it looks like a pretty dreary Christmas.
The message in “A Christmas Carol” also says it’s not just good enough to donate money, but individuals need to get involved, as Scrooge learns in the end. This is a message we can all keep in mind this year. You never lose by giving.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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From its first publication in 1843, “A Christmas Carol” has charmed and inspired millions. Less well-known is the fact that this little book of celebration grew out of a dark period in the author’s career and, in some ways, changed the course of his life forever.
In a very real sense, Dickens popularized many aspects of the Christmas we celebrate today, including great family gatherings, seasonal drinks and dishes and gift giving. Even our language has been enriched by the tale. Who has not known a Scrooge, or uttered “Bah! Humbug!” when feeling irritated or disbelieving. And the phrase “Merry Christmas!” gained wider usage after the story appeared.
“A Christmas Carol” may become an even more relevant tale as people cope with what is expected to be an economically bleak holiday season. Fast-forward to 2010, and America is in an acute economic crisis. There are a number of similar themes, including the increasing gap between the rich and poor. People in the working class are losing their homes or struggling to heat their homes, and we’re going into the holiday season with anticipated layoffs and high unemployment. For many, it looks like a pretty dreary Christmas.
The message in “A Christmas Carol” also says it’s not just good enough to donate money, but individuals need to get involved, as Scrooge learns in the end. This is a message we can all keep in mind this year. You never lose by giving.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
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A Christmas Carol
From its first publication in 1843, A Christmas Carol has charmed and inspired millions. Less well known is the fact that this little book of celebration grew out of a dark period in the author’s career-and, in some ways, changed the course of his life forever . In a very real sense, Dickens popularized many aspects of the Christmas we celebrate today, including great family gatherings, seasonal drinks and dishes and gift giving. Even our language has been enriched by the tale. Who has not known a “Scrooge,” or uttered “Bah! Humbug!” when feeling irritated or disbelieving. And the phrase “Merry Christmas!” gained wider usage after the story appeared.
A Christmas Carol may become an even more relevant tale as people cope with what is expected to be an economically bleak holiday season. Fast forward to 2010, and America is in an acute economic crisis. There are a number of similar themes, including the increasing gap between the rich and poor. People in the working class are losing their homes or struggling to heat their homes, and we're going into the holiday season with anticipated layoffs and high unemployment. For many, it looks like a pretty dreary Christmas.
The message in A Christmas Carol also says it's not just good enough to donate money, but individuals need to get involved, as Scrooge learns in the end. This is a message we can all keep in mind this year. You never lose by giving.
Ted Rudow III,MA
December 15, 2010
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A Christmas Carol;"Fair Game"; Ishmael Reed’s New York Times Op-Ed; Beware the Evil Republicans
A Christmas Carol
From its first publication in 1843, A Christmas Carol has charmed and inspired millions. Less well known is the fact that this little book of celebration grew out of a dark period in the author’s career-and, in some ways, changed the course of his life forever . In a very real sense, Dickens popularized many aspects of the Christmas we celebrate today, including great family gatherings, seasonal drinks and dishes and gift giving. Even our language has been enriched by the tale. Who has not known a “Scrooge,” or uttered “Bah! Humbug!” when feeling irritated or disbelieving. And the phrase “Merry Christmas!” gained wider usage after the story appeared.
A Christmas Carol may become an even more relevant tale as people cope with what is expected to be an economically bleak holiday season. Fast forward to 2010, and America is in an acute economic crisis. There are a number of similar themes, including the increasing gap between the rich and poor. People in the working class are losing their homes or struggling to heat their homes, and we're going into the holiday season with anticipated layoffs and high unemployment. For many, it looks like a pretty dreary Christmas.
The message in A Christmas Carol also says it's not just good enough to donate money, but individuals need to get involved, as Scrooge learns in the end. This is a message we can all keep in mind this year. You never lose by giving.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Editor,
Adding further to the mounting problems facing the state, California’s credit rating is the lowest in the nation. So the state pays 1.1 percent interest (an interest rate 1.1 percent higher than other states), which leads to an added $12 billion to pay off $54 billion in debts over the life of loans.
Controller John Chiang said that the state does not appear to be facing a cash crisis through the end of the fiscal year on June 20, but thereafter, “we see a very different story.” But even if the state could eliminate Medi-Cal, which is going to be $18 billion, it will not be enough to retire the deficit.
The rich, the poor and the middle class have all borrowed themselves into debts that they can never repay. So if the slightest little thing gets out of balance or goes off in any way, the whole thing is poised to crash like a bunch of dominoes. Everybody loses but the ones who loaned the money and now own everything. The mortgages which were sold to banks, pension funds and investors were packaged in such a complex way that they practically defied understanding. As a result, many financial firms aren’t even sure how much money they’ve lost yet — or how much the remainder of their mortgage-backed assets are worth.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Editor,
Adding further to the mounting problems facing the state, California’s credit rating is the lowest in the nation. So the state pays 1.1 percent interest (an interest rate 1.1 percent higher than other states), which leads to an added $12 billion to pay off $54 billion in debts over the life of loans.
Controller John Chiang said that the state does not appear to be facing a cash crisis through the end of the fiscal year on June 20, but thereafter, “we see a very different story.” But even if the state could eliminate Medi-Cal, which is going to be $18 billion, it will not be enough to retire the deficit.
The rich, the poor and the middle class have all borrowed themselves into debts that they can never repay. So if the slightest little thing gets out of balance or goes off in any way, the whole thing is poised to crash like a bunch of dominoes. Everybody loses but the ones who loaned the money and now own everything. The mortgages which were sold to banks, pension funds and investors were packaged in such a complex way that they practically defied understanding. As a result, many financial firms aren’t even sure how much money they’ve lost yet — or how much the remainder of their mortgage-backed assets are worth.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Monday, December 13, 2010
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December 13, 2010
Congress convinced lots of poor people to voluntarily give up some of the few things they had to make them even poorer and the rich even richer, so the rich could have more and more and the poor less and less. These are called “taxes” and “profits” and “interest.”
The poor of the world really suffer from the policies of the rich. It’s more than a lack of political will; it’s plain old selfishness and greed, combined with a lack of love or even simple concern for the poor.
The rich are about to reap the cruelties and poverties they themselves have sown amongst the poor, while the meek and the poor shall inherit the earth.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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December 13, 2010
Congress convinced lots of poor people to voluntarily give up some of the few things they had to make them even poorer and the rich even richer, so the rich could have more and more and the poor less and less. These are called “taxes” and “profits” and “interest.”
The poor of the world really suffer from the policies of the rich. It’s more than a lack of political will; it’s plain old selfishness and greed, combined with a lack of love or even simple concern for the poor.
The rich are about to reap the cruelties and poverties they themselves have sown amongst the poor, while the meek and the poor shall inherit the earth.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Issues Beyond Palo Alto, posted by Ted Rudow III,MA, a member of the Palo Alto High School community, on Dec 10, 2010
Poor suffer, rich benefit
Congress convinced lots of poor people to voluntarily give up some of the few things they had to make them even poorer and the rich even richer, so the rich could have more and more and the poor less and less. These are called “taxes” and “profits” and “interest.”
The poor of the world really suffer from the policies of the rich. It’s more than a lack of political will; it’s plain old selfishness and greed, combined with a lack of love or even simple concern for the poor.
The rich are about to reap the cruelties and poverties they themselves have sown amongst the poor, while the meek and the poor shall inherit the earth.
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Issues Beyond Palo Alto, posted by Ted Rudow III,MA, a member of the Palo Alto High School community, on Dec 10, 2010
Poor suffer, rich benefit
Congress convinced lots of poor people to voluntarily give up some of the few things they had to make them even poorer and the rich even richer, so the rich could have more and more and the poor less and less. These are called “taxes” and “profits” and “interest.”
The poor of the world really suffer from the policies of the rich. It’s more than a lack of political will; it’s plain old selfishness and greed, combined with a lack of love or even simple concern for the poor.
The rich are about to reap the cruelties and poverties they themselves have sown amongst the poor, while the meek and the poor shall inherit the earth.
Who were the terrorists of yesteryear?
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Who were the terrorists of yesteryear? Both sides had their share of terrorists. Rome as a whole was a terrorist state, conquering nations, seizing their riches and enslaving their peoples, imposing their will on captive populations, and ruling with violence and bloodshed. It was the world empire of that day, the superpower, and it did as it wished. You call those who commit violence for political purposes terrorists, and Rome as a whole, as an empire, did this. Terrorists are not always little armed individuals or groups who commit atrocities. The biggest and worst terrorists are nations who commit atrocities with their armies, who wage what they call war but which differs from terrorism only in scale, for war is often terrorism on a massive scale, conducted with planes and tanks and bombs and tens of thousands of soldiers. Yet war is somehow considered more palatable by the world, for it is conducted by national terrorists, while terrorism is condemned because it is conducted by individual terrorists.
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Who were the terrorists of yesteryear? Both sides had their share of terrorists. Rome as a whole was a terrorist state, conquering nations, seizing their riches and enslaving their peoples, imposing their will on captive populations, and ruling with violence and bloodshed. It was the world empire of that day, the superpower, and it did as it wished. You call those who commit violence for political purposes terrorists, and Rome as a whole, as an empire, did this. Terrorists are not always little armed individuals or groups who commit atrocities. The biggest and worst terrorists are nations who commit atrocities with their armies, who wage what they call war but which differs from terrorism only in scale, for war is often terrorism on a massive scale, conducted with planes and tanks and bombs and tens of thousands of soldiers. Yet war is somehow considered more palatable by the world, for it is conducted by national terrorists, while terrorism is condemned because it is conducted by individual terrorists.
Ted Rudow III, MA
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International Herald Tribune and The Daily Star are available every morning in: Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman
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America’s economy was built on war and is maintained on war, or what they often call "defence spending" nowadays. It is money that goes into the pocket of big business, who are enthusiastic backers of a big military because they profit from it. The former president, Dwight D Eisenhower, old soldier that he was knew the system well and called it "the military-industrial complex", warning the United States of its influence. His warning a half-century ago didn’t do much good, as we can see.
So, I wonder what their excuse will be for the next war against Iraq. We know what their reasons are going to be: to save Israel and the oil and stop the terrrorist. How self-righteous nations can get before a war, so righteous and so convinced that they are right and the other fellow’s the criminal, the devil who needs to be conquered. The conqueror writes the history books. Didn’t you ever read 1984? Whoever wins the war, they write the books, so you will never hear the truth of what really happened. It is happening now.
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So, I wonder what their excuse will be for the next war against Iraq. We know what their reasons are going to be: to save Israel and the oil and stop the terrrorist. How self-righteous nations can get before a war, so righteous and so convinced that they are right and the other fellow’s the criminal, the devil who needs to be conquered. The conqueror writes the history books. Didn’t you ever read 1984? Whoever wins the war, they write the books, so you will never hear the truth of what really happened. It is happening now.
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Congress convinced lots of poor people to voluntarily give up some of the few things they had to make them even poorer and the rich even richer, so the rich could have more and more and the poor less and less. These are called “taxes” and “profits” and “interest.”
The poor of the world really suffer from the policies of the rich. It’s more than a lack of political will; it’s plain old selfishness and greed, combined with a lack of love or even simple concern for the poor.
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Poor suffer, rich benefit
Congress convinced lots of poor people to voluntarily give up some of the few things they had to make them even poorer and the rich even richer, so the rich could have more and more and the poor less and less. These are called “taxes” and “profits” and “interest.”
The poor of the world really suffer from the policies of the rich. It’s more than a lack of political will; it’s plain old selfishness and greed, combined with a lack of love or even simple concern for the poor.
The rich are about to reap the cruelties and poverties they themselves have sown amongst the poor, while the meek and the poor shall inherit the earth.
Ted Rudow III, MA
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Despite sustained denials by the Pentagon, the leaked cables from WikiLeaks confirm that U.S. military special operations forces have been secretly working with the Pakistani military to conduct offensive operations and coordinate drone strikes in the areas near the Afghan border.
Pentagon spokesperson Geoff Morrell called it "conspiratorial" and explicitly denied that US special operations forces were doing anything other than "training" in Pakistan. But in recent years, they go to war for commercial reasons, they're trade wars. Nearly every one of America's wars was fought under different excuses, even as far back as the Civil War. Before every war, there's a long period of mental conditioning and psychological preparation.
Roosevelt was informed ahead of time that the Japanese were going to strike Pearl Harbour, even of the hour, and this all came out years afterwards, but he never did a thing and never let the information out to the Armed Services or anything because he knew that was the only thing that would make the American people mad enough to go to war. So Sunday morning came, Dec 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbour, and, as usual, the military services all took the day off. Of course then this was played up into big propaganda: “A horrible atrocity, the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbour,” “a terrible slaughter,” “a stab in our back” and all of this stuff, and it did it. It made the Americans mad enough, and the very next day Congress met and declared war - WWII.
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Despite sustained denials by the Pentagon, the leaked cables from WikiLeaks confirm that U.S. military special operations forces have been secretly working with the Pakistani military to conduct offensive operations and coordinate drone strikes in the areas near the Afghan border.
Pentagon spokesperson Geoff Morrell called it "conspiratorial" and explicitly denied that US special operations forces were doing anything other than "training" in Pakistan. But in recent years, they go to war for commercial reasons, they're trade wars. Nearly every one of America's wars was fought under different excuses, even as far back as the Civil War. Before every war, there's a long period of mental conditioning and psychological preparation.
Roosevelt was informed ahead of time that the Japanese were going to strike Pearl Harbour, even of the hour, and this all came out years afterwards, but he never did a thing and never let the information out to the Armed Services or anything because he knew that was the only thing that would make the American people mad enough to go to war. So Sunday morning came, Dec 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbour, and, as usual, the military services all took the day off. Of course then this was played up into big propaganda: “A horrible atrocity, the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbour,” “a terrible slaughter,” “a stab in our back” and all of this stuff, and it did it. It made the Americans mad enough, and the very next day Congress met and declared war - WWII.
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In the mid-1930s, the great threat to Western democracies was the expansion of fascism, already on display in Germany and Italy. Fearing the same fate for Spain, volunteers from more than 50 countries came to fight. The international brigades were disbanded and allowed to leave Spain in late 1938 when Franco's forces, supported heavily by Germany and Italy, were on the verge of victory. Communism never was the opposite of the fascism of Mussolini's and Hitler's brownshirts. Both possessed the same totalitarian nature. There was only one distinct difference between the two: communism was internationalist, while fascism was ultranationalist.
American fascism has proved it is not one bit interested in the democratic process! The rich of the world, who back the forceful fearful fascist governments to protect them, the capitalists who claim to be proponents and the supporters of democracy are hypocrites. The fascist but so-called democratic governments will be no more democratic than the solidly communist countries when faced with total socialism.
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In the mid-1930s, the great threat to Western democracies was the expansion of fascism, already on display in Germany and Italy. Fearing the same fate for Spain, volunteers from more than 50 countries came to fight. The international brigades were disbanded and allowed to leave Spain in late 1938 when Franco's forces, supported heavily by Germany and Italy, were on the verge of victory. Communism never was the opposite of the fascism of Mussolini's and Hitler's brownshirts. Both possessed the same totalitarian nature. There was only one distinct difference between the two: communism was internationalist, while fascism was ultranationalist.
American fascism has proved it is not one bit interested in the democratic process! The rich of the world, who back the forceful fearful fascist governments to protect them, the capitalists who claim to be proponents and the supporters of democracy are hypocrites. The fascist but so-called democratic governments will be no more democratic than the solidly communist countries when faced with total socialism.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Issues Beyond Palo Alto, posted by Ted Rudow III,MA, a member of the Palo Alto High School community, on Dec 3, 2010 at 11:41 am
Despite sustained denials by the Pentagon, the leaked cables from WikiLeaks confirm that U.S. military special operations forces have been secretly working with the Pakistani military to conduct offensive operations and coordinate drone strikes in the areas near the Afghan border.
Pentagon spokesperson Geoff Morrell called it "conspiratorial" and explicitly denied that US special operations forces were doing anything other than "training" in Pakistan.
But in modern years, recent years, they go to war for commercial reasons, they're trade wars. Nearly every one of America's wars were for some kind of trade advantage or money or for territory-which of course were always fought under different excuses, even as far back as the Civil War. Roosevelt was informed ahead of time that the Japanese were going to strike Pearl Harbor, even of the hour, and this all came out years afterward, but he never did a thing and never let the information out to the Armed Services or anything because he knew that was the only thing that would make the American people mad enough to go to war. So Sunday morning came, Dec. 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor, and, as usual, the military services all took the day off. Of course then this was played up into big propaganda: “A horrible atrocity, the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor” and “a terrible slaughter,” “a stab in our back” and all of this stuff, and it did it. It made the Americans mad enough, and the very next day Congress met and declared war — WWII
Before every war, there's a long period of mental conditioning and psychological preparation. You never saw how self-righteous nations can get just before a war! So righteous and so convinced that they are right and the other fellow's the criminal, the devil who needs to be conquered! "FROM WHENCE COME WARS?"
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Issues Beyond Palo Alto, posted by Ted Rudow III,MA, a member of the Palo Alto High School community, on Dec 3, 2010 at 11:41 am
Despite sustained denials by the Pentagon, the leaked cables from WikiLeaks confirm that U.S. military special operations forces have been secretly working with the Pakistani military to conduct offensive operations and coordinate drone strikes in the areas near the Afghan border.
Pentagon spokesperson Geoff Morrell called it "conspiratorial" and explicitly denied that US special operations forces were doing anything other than "training" in Pakistan.
But in modern years, recent years, they go to war for commercial reasons, they're trade wars. Nearly every one of America's wars were for some kind of trade advantage or money or for territory-which of course were always fought under different excuses, even as far back as the Civil War. Roosevelt was informed ahead of time that the Japanese were going to strike Pearl Harbor, even of the hour, and this all came out years afterward, but he never did a thing and never let the information out to the Armed Services or anything because he knew that was the only thing that would make the American people mad enough to go to war. So Sunday morning came, Dec. 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor, and, as usual, the military services all took the day off. Of course then this was played up into big propaganda: “A horrible atrocity, the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor” and “a terrible slaughter,” “a stab in our back” and all of this stuff, and it did it. It made the Americans mad enough, and the very next day Congress met and declared war — WWII
Before every war, there's a long period of mental conditioning and psychological preparation. You never saw how self-righteous nations can get just before a war! So righteous and so convinced that they are right and the other fellow's the criminal, the devil who needs to be conquered! "FROM WHENCE COME WARS?"
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Dear Editor: Civilians have borne the brunt of modern warfare, with 10 civilians dying for every soldier in wars fought since the mid-20th century, compared with nine soldiers killed for every civilian in World War I, according to a 2001 study by the International Committee of the Red Cross. But it does seem to suggest numbers that are roughly in line with those compiled by several sources, including Iraq Body Count, an organization that tracked civilian deaths using press reports -- a method the Bush administration repeatedly derided as unreliable and producing inflated numbers. In all, the five-year archive lists more than 100,000 dead from 2004 to 2009, though some deaths are reported more than once, and some reports have inconsistent casualty figures.Iraq Body Count, which did a preliminary analysis of the archive, estimated that it listed 15,000 deaths that had not been previously disclosed anywhere. You just can't imagine people in this supposedly civilized age actually going to war. Their whole culture is to blame. A culture that says war is all right, that it's legitimate to tear bodies apart and destroy the lives of men, women and children. You just can't imagine civilized people talking calmly about it. War is insanity. They're declaring war in the name of peace.
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Dear Editor: Civilians have borne the brunt of modern warfare, with 10 civilians dying for every soldier in wars fought since the mid-20th century, compared with nine soldiers killed for every civilian in World War I, according to a 2001 study by the International Committee of the Red Cross. But it does seem to suggest numbers that are roughly in line with those compiled by several sources, including Iraq Body Count, an organization that tracked civilian deaths using press reports -- a method the Bush administration repeatedly derided as unreliable and producing inflated numbers. In all, the five-year archive lists more than 100,000 dead from 2004 to 2009, though some deaths are reported more than once, and some reports have inconsistent casualty figures.Iraq Body Count, which did a preliminary analysis of the archive, estimated that it listed 15,000 deaths that had not been previously disclosed anywhere. You just can't imagine people in this supposedly civilized age actually going to war. Their whole culture is to blame. A culture that says war is all right, that it's legitimate to tear bodies apart and destroy the lives of men, women and children. You just can't imagine civilized people talking calmly about it. War is insanity. They're declaring war in the name of peace.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Thursday Dec 2nd, 2010
Despite sustained denials by the Pentagon, the leaked cables from WikiLeaks confirm that U.S. military special operations forces have been secretly working with the Pakistani military to conduct offensive operations and coordinate drone strikes in the areas near the Afghan border.
Pentagon spokesperson Geoff Morrell called it "conspiratorial" and explicitly denied that US special operations forces were doing anything other than "training" in Pakistan. Countries used to go to war just for pride over some incident because they were offended or one king made a bad remark about another king.
But in modern years, recent years, they go to war for commercial reasons, they're trade wars. Nearly every one of America's wars were for some kind of trade advantage or money or for territory-which of course were always fought under different excuses, even as far back as the Civil War. Roosevelt was informed ahead of time that the Japanese were going to strike Pearl Harbor, even of the hour, and this all came out years afterward, but he never did a thing and never let the information out to the Armed Services or anything because he knew that was the only thing that would make the American people mad enough to go to war. So Sunday morning came, Dec. 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor, and, as usual, the military services all took the day off. Of course then this was played up into big propaganda: “A horrible atrocity, the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor” and “a terrible slaughter,” “a stab in our back” and all of this stuff, and it did it. It made the Americans mad enough, and the very next day Congress met and declared war — WWII
Before every war, there's a long period of mental conditioning and psychological preparation. You never saw how self-righteous nations can get just before a war! So righteous and so convinced that they are right and the other fellow's the criminal, the devil who needs to be conquered! "FROM WHENCE COME WARS?"
Ted Rudow III,MA
Military Madnessby Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Thursday Dec 2nd, 2010
Despite sustained denials by the Pentagon, the leaked cables from WikiLeaks confirm that U.S. military special operations forces have been secretly working with the Pakistani military to conduct offensive operations and coordinate drone strikes in the areas near the Afghan border.
Pentagon spokesperson Geoff Morrell called it "conspiratorial" and explicitly denied that US special operations forces were doing anything other than "training" in Pakistan. Countries used to go to war just for pride over some incident because they were offended or one king made a bad remark about another king.
But in modern years, recent years, they go to war for commercial reasons, they're trade wars. Nearly every one of America's wars were for some kind of trade advantage or money or for territory-which of course were always fought under different excuses, even as far back as the Civil War. Roosevelt was informed ahead of time that the Japanese were going to strike Pearl Harbor, even of the hour, and this all came out years afterward, but he never did a thing and never let the information out to the Armed Services or anything because he knew that was the only thing that would make the American people mad enough to go to war. So Sunday morning came, Dec. 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor, and, as usual, the military services all took the day off. Of course then this was played up into big propaganda: “A horrible atrocity, the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor” and “a terrible slaughter,” “a stab in our back” and all of this stuff, and it did it. It made the Americans mad enough, and the very next day Congress met and declared war — WWII
Before every war, there's a long period of mental conditioning and psychological preparation. You never saw how self-righteous nations can get just before a war! So righteous and so convinced that they are right and the other fellow's the criminal, the devil who needs to be conquered! "FROM WHENCE COME WARS?"
Ted Rudow III,MA
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And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see.And I beheld, and to a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny; and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine (Revelation 6:5-6 KJV.).
This black horse’s rider with the pair of balances in his hand symbolizes the rich capitalists who have a major impact on world conditions through their manipulation of national economies. Only one other verse in the Bible pictures a man with balances or scales: The merchant uses dishonest scales; he loves to defraud (Hosea 12:7 NIV).
Another prophet, Amos, also said the merchants the wealthy capitalists of his day who were robbing the poor instead of helping them set forth wheat, making the ephah [unit of measure] small, and the shekel [price] great and falsifying the balances by deceit.
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And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see.And I beheld, and to a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny; and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine (Revelation 6:5-6 KJV.).
This black horse’s rider with the pair of balances in his hand symbolizes the rich capitalists who have a major impact on world conditions through their manipulation of national economies. Only one other verse in the Bible pictures a man with balances or scales: The merchant uses dishonest scales; he loves to defraud (Hosea 12:7 NIV).
Another prophet, Amos, also said the merchants the wealthy capitalists of his day who were robbing the poor instead of helping them set forth wheat, making the ephah [unit of measure] small, and the shekel [price] great and falsifying the balances by deceit.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see.And I beheld, and to a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny; and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine (Revelation 6:5-6 KJV.).
This black horse’s rider with the pair of balances in his hand symbolizes the rich capitalists who have a major impact on world conditions through their manipulation of national economies. Only one other verse in the Bible pictures a man with balances or scales: The merchant uses dishonest scales; he loves to defraud (Hosea 12:7 NIV).
Another prophet, Amos, also said the merchants the wealthy capitalists of his day who were robbing the poor instead of helping them set forth wheat, making the ephah [unit of measure] small, and the shekel [price] great and falsifying the balances by deceit.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see.And I beheld, and to a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny; and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine (Revelation 6:5-6 KJV.).
This black horse’s rider with the pair of balances in his hand symbolizes the rich capitalists who have a major impact on world conditions through their manipulation of national economies. Only one other verse in the Bible pictures a man with balances or scales: The merchant uses dishonest scales; he loves to defraud (Hosea 12:7 NIV).
Another prophet, Amos, also said the merchants the wealthy capitalists of his day who were robbing the poor instead of helping them set forth wheat, making the ephah [unit of measure] small, and the shekel [price] great and falsifying the balances by deceit.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/11/25/3207902/jerry-brown-thanksgiving.html?pageNum=2&mi_pluck_action=page_nav#Comments_Container#ixzz16oII4jcV
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In the mid-1930s, the great threat to Western democracies was the expansion of fascism, already on display in Germany and Italy. Fearing the same fate for Spain, volunteers from more than 50 countries came to fight.
The international brigades were disbanded and allowed to leave Spain in late 1938 when Franco’s forces, supported heavily by Germany and Italy were on the verge of victory. Communism never was the opposite of the fascism of Mussolini’s and Hitler’s Brown shirts.
Both possessed the same totalitarian nature. There was only one distinct difference between the two: Communism was internationalist, while fascism was ultranationalist.
American Fascism has proved it is not one bit interested in the democratic process!
The rich of the world, who back the forceful fearful fascist governments to protect them, the capitalists who claim to be proponents and the supporters of democracy, are hypocrites.
The fascist but so-called democratic governments will be no more democratic than the solidly communist countries when faced with total socialism.
Ted Rudow III, MA
Menlo Park, California, United States
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In the mid-1930s, the great threat to Western democracies was the expansion of fascism, already on display in Germany and Italy. Fearing the same fate for Spain, volunteers from more than 50 countries came to fight.
The international brigades were disbanded and allowed to leave Spain in late 1938 when Franco’s forces, supported heavily by Germany and Italy were on the verge of victory. Communism never was the opposite of the fascism of Mussolini’s and Hitler’s Brown shirts.
Both possessed the same totalitarian nature. There was only one distinct difference between the two: Communism was internationalist, while fascism was ultranationalist.
American Fascism has proved it is not one bit interested in the democratic process!
The rich of the world, who back the forceful fearful fascist governments to protect them, the capitalists who claim to be proponents and the supporters of democracy, are hypocrites.
The fascist but so-called democratic governments will be no more democratic than the solidly communist countries when faced with total socialism.
Ted Rudow III, MA
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Black Friday is overrated
By Amaris Dominguez
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November 22, 2010
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It’s that time of year again, when people quickly recover from their Thanksgiving-induced food comas and set off on a shopping frenzy in the wee hours of the morning.
Yes — Black Friday is approaching.
Nov. 26, otherwise known as Black Friday, marks the beginning of the Christmas shopping season.
Stores extend their hours and offer major savings to consumers looking for the best deals on gifts for others and themselves.
It marks the time when people leave their manners and common courtesy at home....
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Ted Rudow III,MA says:
November 23, 2010
And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see.And I beheld, and to a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny; and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine (Revelation 6:5-6 KJV.).
This black horse’s rider with the pair of balances in his hand symbolizes the rich capitalists who have a major impact on world conditions through their manipulation of national economies. Only one other verse in the Bible pictures a man with balances or scales: The merchant uses dishonest scales; he loves to defraud (Hosea 12:7 NIV).
Another prophet, Amos, also said the merchants the wealthy capitalists of his day who were robbing the poor instead of helping them set forth wheat, making the ephah [unit of measure] small, and the shekel [price] great and falsifying the balances by deceit.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Black Friday is overrated
By Amaris Dominguez
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November 22, 2010
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Amaris Dominguez, staff writer
It’s that time of year again, when people quickly recover from their Thanksgiving-induced food comas and set off on a shopping frenzy in the wee hours of the morning.
Yes — Black Friday is approaching.
Nov. 26, otherwise known as Black Friday, marks the beginning of the Christmas shopping season.
Stores extend their hours and offer major savings to consumers looking for the best deals on gifts for others and themselves.
It marks the time when people leave their manners and common courtesy at home....
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Ted Rudow III,MA says:
November 23, 2010
And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see.And I beheld, and to a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny; and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine (Revelation 6:5-6 KJV.).
This black horse’s rider with the pair of balances in his hand symbolizes the rich capitalists who have a major impact on world conditions through their manipulation of national economies. Only one other verse in the Bible pictures a man with balances or scales: The merchant uses dishonest scales; he loves to defraud (Hosea 12:7 NIV).
Another prophet, Amos, also said the merchants the wealthy capitalists of his day who were robbing the poor instead of helping them set forth wheat, making the ephah [unit of measure] small, and the shekel [price] great and falsifying the balances by deceit.
Ted Rudow III,MA
class of 1996
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A Thanksgiving Day editorial column told of a schoolteacher who asked her class of first-graders to draw a picture of something they were thankful for. She thought of how little these children from poor neighborhoods actually had to be thankful for. But she knew that most of them would draw pictures of turkeys or tables with food. The teacher was taken aback with the picture Douglas handed in a simple, childishly drawn hand.
But whose hand? The class was captivated by the abstract image. "I think it must be the hand of God that brings us food," said one child.
"A farmer," said another, "because he grows the turkeys."
Finally, when the others were at work, the teacher bent over Douglas' desk and asked whose hand it was. "It's your hand, teacher," he mumbled.
She recalled that frequently at recess she had taken Douglas, a scrubby, forlorn child, by the hand. She often did that with the children. But it meant so much to Douglas. Perhaps this was everyone's Thanksgiving, not for the material things given to us but for the chance, in whatever small way, to give to others.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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A Thanksgiving Day editorial column told of a schoolteacher who asked her class of first-graders to draw a picture of something they were thankful for. She thought of how little these children from poor neighborhoods actually had to be thankful for. But she knew that most of them would draw pictures of turkeys or tables with food. The teacher was taken aback with the picture Douglas handed in a simple, childishly drawn hand.
But whose hand? The class was captivated by the abstract image. "I think it must be the hand of God that brings us food," said one child.
"A farmer," said another, "because he grows the turkeys."
Finally, when the others were at work, the teacher bent over Douglas' desk and asked whose hand it was. "It's your hand, teacher," he mumbled.
She recalled that frequently at recess she had taken Douglas, a scrubby, forlorn child, by the hand. She often did that with the children. But it meant so much to Douglas. Perhaps this was everyone's Thanksgiving, not for the material things given to us but for the chance, in whatever small way, to give to others.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Dear Editor: A Thanksgiving Day editorial column told of a schoolteacher who asked her class of first-graders to draw a picture of something they were thankful for. She thought of how little these children from poor neighborhoods actually had to be thankful for. But she knew that most of them would draw pictures of turkeys or tables with food. The teacher was taken aback with the picture Douglas handed in a simple, childishly drawn hand.
But whose hand? The class was captivated by the abstract image. "I think it must be the hand of God that brings us food," said one child.
"A farmer," said another, "because he grows the turkeys."
Finally, when the others were at work, the teacher bent over Douglas' desk and asked whose hand it was. "It's your hand, teacher," he mumbled.
She recalled that frequently at recess she had taken Douglas, a scrubby, forlorn child, by the hand. She often did that with the children. But it meant so much to Douglas. Perhaps this was everyone's Thanksgiving, not for the material things given to us but for the chance, in whatever small way, to give to others.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Dear Editor: A Thanksgiving Day editorial column told of a schoolteacher who asked her class of first-graders to draw a picture of something they were thankful for. She thought of how little these children from poor neighborhoods actually had to be thankful for. But she knew that most of them would draw pictures of turkeys or tables with food. The teacher was taken aback with the picture Douglas handed in a simple, childishly drawn hand.
But whose hand? The class was captivated by the abstract image. "I think it must be the hand of God that brings us food," said one child.
"A farmer," said another, "because he grows the turkeys."
Finally, when the others were at work, the teacher bent over Douglas' desk and asked whose hand it was. "It's your hand, teacher," he mumbled.
She recalled that frequently at recess she had taken Douglas, a scrubby, forlorn child, by the hand. She often did that with the children. But it meant so much to Douglas. Perhaps this was everyone's Thanksgiving, not for the material things given to us but for the chance, in whatever small way, to give to others.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Palo Alto
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Thanksgiving traditions die like the turkey
By Kristen Pearson
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November 21, 2010
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This Thursday the aroma of a turkey dinner being cooked and the sounds of the Cowboys football game will fill homes all over the U.S.
Unfortunately, those smells and sounds will not fill my house this year.
Every year after dinner, our family hangs out, eats pie and my two sisters and best friend come over to watch a movie.
Not this year.
I realize that things change as we get older — people move away or die and traditions grow cold and stale, but I never thought this would happen to me.
I was wrong and naive to think such things couldn’t touch me.-----
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Ted Rudow III,MA says:
November 22, 2010
A Thanksgiving Day editorial in the newspaper told of a schoolteacher who asked her class of first-graders to draw a picture of something they were thankful for. She thought of how little these children from poor neighborhoods actually had to be thankful for. But she knew that most of them would draw pictures of turkeys or tables with food. The teacher was taken aback with the picture Douglas handed in-a simple, childishly drawn hand.
But whose hand? The class was captivated by the abstract image. “I think it must be the hand of God that brings us food,” said one child.
“A farmer,” said another, “because he grows the turkeys.”
Finally when the others were at work, the teacher bent over Douglas’ desk and asked whose hand it was. “It’s your hand, Teacher,” he mumbled.
She recalled that frequently at recess she had taken Douglas, a scrubby, forlorn child, by the hand. She often did that with the children. But it meant so much to Douglas. Perhaps this was everyone’s Thanksgiving, not for the material things given to us but for the chance, in whatever small way, to give to others.
Ted Rudow III,MA
class of 1996
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By Kristen Pearson
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November 21, 2010
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This Thursday the aroma of a turkey dinner being cooked and the sounds of the Cowboys football game will fill homes all over the U.S.
Unfortunately, those smells and sounds will not fill my house this year.
Every year after dinner, our family hangs out, eats pie and my two sisters and best friend come over to watch a movie.
Not this year.
I realize that things change as we get older — people move away or die and traditions grow cold and stale, but I never thought this would happen to me.
I was wrong and naive to think such things couldn’t touch me.-----
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Ted Rudow III,MA says:
November 22, 2010
A Thanksgiving Day editorial in the newspaper told of a schoolteacher who asked her class of first-graders to draw a picture of something they were thankful for. She thought of how little these children from poor neighborhoods actually had to be thankful for. But she knew that most of them would draw pictures of turkeys or tables with food. The teacher was taken aback with the picture Douglas handed in-a simple, childishly drawn hand.
But whose hand? The class was captivated by the abstract image. “I think it must be the hand of God that brings us food,” said one child.
“A farmer,” said another, “because he grows the turkeys.”
Finally when the others were at work, the teacher bent over Douglas’ desk and asked whose hand it was. “It’s your hand, Teacher,” he mumbled.
She recalled that frequently at recess she had taken Douglas, a scrubby, forlorn child, by the hand. She often did that with the children. But it meant so much to Douglas. Perhaps this was everyone’s Thanksgiving, not for the material things given to us but for the chance, in whatever small way, to give to others.
Ted Rudow III,MA
class of 1996
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American Fascism has proved it is not one bit interested in the democratic process! The rich of the world, who back the forceful fearful fascist governments to protect them, the capitalist who claim to be proponents and the supporters of democracy, are hypocrites. The fascist but so-called democratic governments will be no more democratic than the solidly communist countries when faced with total socialism.
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American Fascism has proved it is not one bit interested in the democratic process! The rich of the world, who back the forceful fearful fascist governments to protect them, the capitalist who claim to be proponents and the supporters of democracy, are hypocrites. The fascist but so-called democratic governments will be no more democratic than the solidly communist countries when faced with total socialism.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Ted Kennedy was the sponsor of the 1973 HMO Act. HMOs did exist prior to 1973, so Kennedy didn't "create" them. What he did do was be as visible of a champion as anyone in the act that made HMOs prominent on the American landscape. It should be noted that Nixon signed the 1973 Act.
But it found this Watergate tape—has nothing to do with Watergate, it’s one of the Nixon tapes—at the Archives, National Archives, where Nixon and Ehrlichman are discussing whether or not to support this HMO concept. And Ehrlichman says to Nixon, "You’re going to love this, because this is private enterprise. This isn’t like some freebie thing." Nixon goes, "Oh, I like that. Tell me about it." And then Ehrlichman says, "Well, this is how it’s going to work, these HMOs. They’re going to make more money by providing less care. The less care they give them, the patients, the more money the company makes." Nixon goes, "Ooh, not bad!"
" I believe that the healthcare bill that was enacted by the current Congress will kill jobs in America, ruin the best healthcare system in the world, and bankrupt our country. That means that we have to do everything we can to try to repeal this bill and replace it with commonsense reforms that will bring down the cost of health insurance." John Boehner
We believe that the people in this country would like to see their tax dollars spent for healthcare, public education, jobs programs, and environmental cleanup, not more military weapons. Furthermore, acts of aggression or war without Congressional approval, with no public debate, and with minimal, censored information generated by the Pentagon and the Obama's administration are those of a totalitarian state, not a democracy.
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Ted Kennedy was the sponsor of the 1973 HMO Act. HMOs did exist prior to 1973, so Kennedy didn't "create" them. What he did do was be as visible of a champion as anyone in the act that made HMOs prominent on the American landscape. It should be noted that Nixon signed the 1973 Act.
But it found this Watergate tape—has nothing to do with Watergate, it’s one of the Nixon tapes—at the Archives, National Archives, where Nixon and Ehrlichman are discussing whether or not to support this HMO concept. And Ehrlichman says to Nixon, "You’re going to love this, because this is private enterprise. This isn’t like some freebie thing." Nixon goes, "Oh, I like that. Tell me about it." And then Ehrlichman says, "Well, this is how it’s going to work, these HMOs. They’re going to make more money by providing less care. The less care they give them, the patients, the more money the company makes." Nixon goes, "Ooh, not bad!"
" I believe that the healthcare bill that was enacted by the current Congress will kill jobs in America, ruin the best healthcare system in the world, and bankrupt our country. That means that we have to do everything we can to try to repeal this bill and replace it with commonsense reforms that will bring down the cost of health insurance." John Boehner
We believe that the people in this country would like to see their tax dollars spent for healthcare, public education, jobs programs, and environmental cleanup, not more military weapons. Furthermore, acts of aggression or war without Congressional approval, with no public debate, and with minimal, censored information generated by the Pentagon and the Obama's administration are those of a totalitarian state, not a democracy.
Friday, November 19, 2010
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Friday Nov 19th, 2010
In the mid-1930s, the great threat to Western democracies was the expansion of fascism, already on display in Germany and Italy. Fearing the same fate for Spain, volunteers from more than 50 countries came to fight.
The international brigades were disbanded and allowed to leave Spain in late 1938 when Franco's forces, supported heavily by Germany and Italy were on the verge of victory. Communism never was the opposite of the fascism of Mussolini's and Hitler's Brownshirts. Both possessed the same totalitarian nature. There was only one distinct difference between the two: Communism was internationalist, while fascism was ultranationalist.
American Fascism has proved it is not one bit interested in the democratic process! The rich of the world, who back the forceful fearful fascist governments to protect them, the capitalist who claim to be proponents and the supporters of democracy, are hypocrites. The fascist but so-called democratic governments will be no more democratic than the solidly communist countries when faced with total socialism.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Friday Nov 19th, 2010
In the mid-1930s, the great threat to Western democracies was the expansion of fascism, already on display in Germany and Italy. Fearing the same fate for Spain, volunteers from more than 50 countries came to fight.
The international brigades were disbanded and allowed to leave Spain in late 1938 when Franco's forces, supported heavily by Germany and Italy were on the verge of victory. Communism never was the opposite of the fascism of Mussolini's and Hitler's Brownshirts. Both possessed the same totalitarian nature. There was only one distinct difference between the two: Communism was internationalist, while fascism was ultranationalist.
American Fascism has proved it is not one bit interested in the democratic process! The rich of the world, who back the forceful fearful fascist governments to protect them, the capitalist who claim to be proponents and the supporters of democracy, are hypocrites. The fascist but so-called democratic governments will be no more democratic than the solidly communist countries when faced with total socialism.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Ted Kennedy was the sponsor of the 1973 HMO Act. HMOs did exist prior to 1973, so Kennedy didn't "create" them. What he did do was be as visible of a champion as anyone in the act that made HMOs prominent on the American landscape. It should be noted that Nixon signed the 1973 Act.
But it found this Watergate tape—has nothing to do with Watergate, it’s one of the Nixon tapes—at the Archives, National Archives, where Nixon and Ehrlichman are discussing whether or not to support this HMO concept. And Ehrlichman says to Nixon, "You’re going to love this, because this is private enterprise. This isn’t like some freebie thing." Nixon goes, "Oh, I like that. Tell me about it." And then Ehrlichman says, "Well, this is how it’s going to work, these HMOs. They’re going to make more money by providing less care. The less care they give them, the patients, the more money the company makes." Nixon goes, "Ooh, not bad!"
" I believe that the healthcare bill that was enacted by the current Congress will kill jobs in America, ruin the best healthcare system in the world, and bankrupt our country. That means that we have to do everything we can to try to repeal this bill and replace it with commonsense reforms that will bring down the cost of health insurance." John Boehner
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Ted Kennedy was the sponsor of the 1973 HMO Act. HMOs did exist prior to 1973, so Kennedy didn't "create" them. What he did do was be as visible of a champion as anyone in the act that made HMOs prominent on the American landscape. It should be noted that Nixon signed the 1973 Act.
But it found this Watergate tape—has nothing to do with Watergate, it’s one of the Nixon tapes—at the Archives, National Archives, where Nixon and Ehrlichman are discussing whether or not to support this HMO concept. And Ehrlichman says to Nixon, "You’re going to love this, because this is private enterprise. This isn’t like some freebie thing." Nixon goes, "Oh, I like that. Tell me about it." And then Ehrlichman says, "Well, this is how it’s going to work, these HMOs. They’re going to make more money by providing less care. The less care they give them, the patients, the more money the company makes." Nixon goes, "Ooh, not bad!"
" I believe that the healthcare bill that was enacted by the current Congress will kill jobs in America, ruin the best healthcare system in the world, and bankrupt our country. That means that we have to do everything we can to try to repeal this bill and replace it with commonsense reforms that will bring down the cost of health insurance." John Boehner
We believe that the people in this country would like to see their tax dollars spent for healthcare, public education, jobs programs, and environmental cleanup, not more military weapons.
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Saturday Nov 13th, 2010
Wall Street firms are reportedly exploiting a loophole in financial reform legislation to continue the practice known as proprietary trading, in which banks trade financial securities from their own commercial accounts.
Former Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker had proposed the curbs to help undo some of the damage of the 1999 repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, which had ensured the separation of commercial and investment banking.
The “Volcker rule” provision of the Dodd-Frank financial reform limits the extent to which banks can bet with their own capital, banning them from short-term trading of securities for their own accounts. Firms including Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Morgan Stanley are closing or slimming down some of their units in order to comply with the law. But the Volcker rule does not apply to banks’ “principal investments,” or longer-term direct purchases of securities, companies and property assets, the Financial Times said. Such deals drove big profits for banks before the financial crisis, but turned into a main source of losses for Wall Street firms like the now-defunct Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc, the paper said.
JER.5:27-28 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
He sent their request, but sent leanness to their soul.
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Their houses full of deceit
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Saturday Nov 13th, 2010
Wall Street firms are reportedly exploiting a loophole in financial reform legislation to continue the practice known as proprietary trading, in which banks trade financial securities from their own commercial accounts.
Former Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker had proposed the curbs to help undo some of the damage of the 1999 repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, which had ensured the separation of commercial and investment banking.
The “Volcker rule” provision of the Dodd-Frank financial reform limits the extent to which banks can bet with their own capital, banning them from short-term trading of securities for their own accounts. Firms including Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Morgan Stanley are closing or slimming down some of their units in order to comply with the law. But the Volcker rule does not apply to banks’ “principal investments,” or longer-term direct purchases of securities, companies and property assets, the Financial Times said. Such deals drove big profits for banks before the financial crisis, but turned into a main source of losses for Wall Street firms like the now-defunct Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc, the paper said.
JER.5:27-28 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
He sent their request, but sent leanness to their soul.
Ted Rudow III, MA
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American politics, as the midterm elections demonstrated, have descended into the irrational.
On one side stands a corrupt liberal class, bereft of ideas and unable to respond coherently to the collapse of the global economy, the dismantling of our manufacturing sector or the deadly assault on the ecosystem.
On the other side stands a mass of increasingly bitter people whose alienation, desperation and rage fuel emotionally driven and incoherent political agendas.
More than half of those who identified as “mainstream Americans,” in a poll by the Republican-leaning Rasmussen Reports, now view the tea party favorably, while the other half, still grounded in a reality-based world, is passive and apathetic......
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November 13, 2010
Well, I think it’s important to look at who the tea party is, what the tea party is. I mean, let’s remember, it’s many different organizations. They wouldn’t be there if it hadn’t been for an enormous amount of money from a few … well, Simon Johnson calls them the “13 bankers.” 13 bankers is the rise of concentrated financial power and the threat it poses to our economic well-being. Over the past three decades, a handful of banks became spectacularly large and profitable and used their power and prestige to reshape the political landscape.
More remarkable the responses of both the Bush and Obama administrations to the crisis, namely bailing out the megabanks on generous terms, without securing any meaningful reform, demonstrate the lasting political power of Wall Street. The largest banks have become more powerful and more emphatically too big to fail with no incentive to change their behavior in the future. This only sets the stage for another financial crisis, another government bailout, and another increase in our national debt economic well-being. The Wall Street world to which Barack Obama said, “I’m the only thing that stands between you and the pitchforks,” turned around, and for all the compromising that Obama did to Wall Street and to the banisters who had brought us the crisis that he inherited when he was elected president, they turned around and poured money into the organizations that we think of as the tea party.
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American politics, as the midterm elections demonstrated, have descended into the irrational.
On one side stands a corrupt liberal class, bereft of ideas and unable to respond coherently to the collapse of the global economy, the dismantling of our manufacturing sector or the deadly assault on the ecosystem.
On the other side stands a mass of increasingly bitter people whose alienation, desperation and rage fuel emotionally driven and incoherent political agendas.
More than half of those who identified as “mainstream Americans,” in a poll by the Republican-leaning Rasmussen Reports, now view the tea party favorably, while the other half, still grounded in a reality-based world, is passive and apathetic......
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November 13, 2010
Well, I think it’s important to look at who the tea party is, what the tea party is. I mean, let’s remember, it’s many different organizations. They wouldn’t be there if it hadn’t been for an enormous amount of money from a few … well, Simon Johnson calls them the “13 bankers.” 13 bankers is the rise of concentrated financial power and the threat it poses to our economic well-being. Over the past three decades, a handful of banks became spectacularly large and profitable and used their power and prestige to reshape the political landscape.
More remarkable the responses of both the Bush and Obama administrations to the crisis, namely bailing out the megabanks on generous terms, without securing any meaningful reform, demonstrate the lasting political power of Wall Street. The largest banks have become more powerful and more emphatically too big to fail with no incentive to change their behavior in the future. This only sets the stage for another financial crisis, another government bailout, and another increase in our national debt economic well-being. The Wall Street world to which Barack Obama said, “I’m the only thing that stands between you and the pitchforks,” turned around, and for all the compromising that Obama did to Wall Street and to the banisters who had brought us the crisis that he inherited when he was elected president, they turned around and poured money into the organizations that we think of as the tea party.
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Well, I think it’s important to look at who the tea party is, what the tea party is. I mean, let’s remember, it’s many different organizations. They wouldn’t be there if it hadn’t been for an enormous amount of money from a few … well, Simon Johnson calls them the “13 bankers.” 13 bankers is the rise of concentrated financial power and the threat it poses to our economic well-being. Over the past three decades, a handful of banks became spectacularly large and profitable and used their power and prestige to reshape the political landscape.
More remarkable the responses of both the Bush and Obama administrations to the crisis, namely bailing out the megabanks on generous terms, without securing any meaningful reform, demonstrate the lasting political power of Wall Street. The largest banks have become more powerful and more emphatically too big to fail with no incentive to change their behavior in the future. This only sets the stage for another financial crisis, another government bailout, and another increase in our national debt economic well-being. The Wall Street world to which Barack Obama said, “I’m the only thing that stands between you and the pitchforks,” turned around, and for all the compromising that Obama did to Wall Street and to the banisters who had brought us the crisis that he inherited when he was elected president, they turned around and poured money into the organizations that we think of as the tea party.
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Well, I think it’s important to look at who the tea party is, what the tea party is. I mean, let’s remember, it’s many different organizations. They wouldn’t be there if it hadn’t been for an enormous amount of money from a few … well, Simon Johnson calls them the “13 bankers.” 13 bankers is the rise of concentrated financial power and the threat it poses to our economic well-being. Over the past three decades, a handful of banks became spectacularly large and profitable and used their power and prestige to reshape the political landscape.
More remarkable the responses of both the Bush and Obama administrations to the crisis, namely bailing out the megabanks on generous terms, without securing any meaningful reform, demonstrate the lasting political power of Wall Street. The largest banks have become more powerful and more emphatically too big to fail with no incentive to change their behavior in the future. This only sets the stage for another financial crisis, another government bailout, and another increase in our national debt economic well-being. The Wall Street world to which Barack Obama said, “I’m the only thing that stands between you and the pitchforks,” turned around, and for all the compromising that Obama did to Wall Street and to the banisters who had brought us the crisis that he inherited when he was elected president, they turned around and poured money into the organizations that we think of as the tea party.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger came into the governorship seven years ago on a pledge to end "crazy deficit spending."As he exits in January, however, he will leave behind a budget deficit that's just as bad, and perhaps even worse, than the one he inherited from predecessor Gray Davis. And regardless of what else he may have accomplished, that will leave an indelible stain on his gubernatorial record.The Legislature's budget analyst, Mac Taylor, calculates that the sham budget Schwarzenegger and legislators enacted scarcely a month ago – 100 days late, by the way – is already about $6 billion out of whack, largely because its rosy revenue assumptions and its other gimmicks are collapsing. Furthermore, as the nearly $9 billion per year in temporary taxes that Schwarzenegger and the Legislature imposed last year expire, and as the state's economy continues a slow – at best – recovery from recession, the state is looking at annual shortfalls in the $20 billion range for years to come, Taylor noted.Jerry Brown, the ex- governor who will succeed Schwarzenegger in January, will be fighting budget wars at least through his first four-year term unless he can create a permanent fix – new taxes and/or big spending cuts – early in his new governorship.He'll be fighting them mostly with fellow Democrats, because Proposition 25 gives them the power to pass a budget without Republican votes.Simply put, Democrats now own the budget, and unless they can find a way to raise taxes, or at least retain those soon-to-expire temporary taxes, they'll be the ones who will be cutting money cherished by their political allies, such as public employee unions and welfare and health care recipients.How about just dreaming up more gimmicks like those now backfiring? Capitol politicians have been scraping the bottom of the gimmick barrel, and even the opportunities to make real spending cuts have been shrinking.The new federal health care program, for instance, makes it much more difficult to reduce health programs for the poor. Indeed, the state will be saddled with new costs as the program is fully implemented.Brown has pledged that he would not raise taxes without voter approval. Chances are he couldn't anyway, since tax hikes would take at least some Republican votes in the Legislature. And he also says he wants to explore cost-cutting avenues before considering taxes.However, the sheer size of the deficit, not only now but in the future, probably means that sooner or later – sooner, most likely – Brown and the Legislature will be begging voters for more revenue, no easy thing coming out of the worst recession since the Great Depression. And even were they able to persuade voters to extend the temporary taxes, that would cover less than half the projected deficit. © Copyright The Sacramento Bee. All rights reserved. Share
One of these days they're going to start collecting. And if the Federal Government loans them too much money and doesn't get it back, they could bankrupt the Government! This is why they were so scared to let the city go bankrupt because too many banks would fail that hold bonds and stuff.
Too many businesses would fail, people would fail, just like a row of dominoes, they'd collapse right on down the line including banks in other cities and they'd even have repercussions in Europe if Californian went bankrupt.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger came into the governorship seven years ago on a pledge to end "crazy deficit spending."As he exits in January, however, he will leave behind a budget deficit that's just as bad, and perhaps even worse, than the one he inherited from predecessor Gray Davis. And regardless of what else he may have accomplished, that will leave an indelible stain on his gubernatorial record.The Legislature's budget analyst, Mac Taylor, calculates that the sham budget Schwarzenegger and legislators enacted scarcely a month ago – 100 days late, by the way – is already about $6 billion out of whack, largely because its rosy revenue assumptions and its other gimmicks are collapsing. Furthermore, as the nearly $9 billion per year in temporary taxes that Schwarzenegger and the Legislature imposed last year expire, and as the state's economy continues a slow – at best – recovery from recession, the state is looking at annual shortfalls in the $20 billion range for years to come, Taylor noted.Jerry Brown, the ex- governor who will succeed Schwarzenegger in January, will be fighting budget wars at least through his first four-year term unless he can create a permanent fix – new taxes and/or big spending cuts – early in his new governorship.He'll be fighting them mostly with fellow Democrats, because Proposition 25 gives them the power to pass a budget without Republican votes.Simply put, Democrats now own the budget, and unless they can find a way to raise taxes, or at least retain those soon-to-expire temporary taxes, they'll be the ones who will be cutting money cherished by their political allies, such as public employee unions and welfare and health care recipients.How about just dreaming up more gimmicks like those now backfiring? Capitol politicians have been scraping the bottom of the gimmick barrel, and even the opportunities to make real spending cuts have been shrinking.The new federal health care program, for instance, makes it much more difficult to reduce health programs for the poor. Indeed, the state will be saddled with new costs as the program is fully implemented.Brown has pledged that he would not raise taxes without voter approval. Chances are he couldn't anyway, since tax hikes would take at least some Republican votes in the Legislature. And he also says he wants to explore cost-cutting avenues before considering taxes.However, the sheer size of the deficit, not only now but in the future, probably means that sooner or later – sooner, most likely – Brown and the Legislature will be begging voters for more revenue, no easy thing coming out of the worst recession since the Great Depression. And even were they able to persuade voters to extend the temporary taxes, that would cover less than half the projected deficit. © Copyright The Sacramento Bee. All rights reserved. Share
One of these days they're going to start collecting. And if the Federal Government loans them too much money and doesn't get it back, they could bankrupt the Government! This is why they were so scared to let the city go bankrupt because too many banks would fail that hold bonds and stuff.
Too many businesses would fail, people would fail, just like a row of dominoes, they'd collapse right on down the line including banks in other cities and they'd even have repercussions in Europe if Californian went bankrupt.
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One of these days they're going to start collecting. And if the Federal Government loans them too much money and doesn't get it back, they could bankrupt the Government! This is why they were so scared to let the city go bankrupt because too many banks would fail that hold bonds and stuff.
Too many businesses would fail, people would fail, just like a row of dominoes, they'd collapse right on down the line including banks in other cities and they'd even have repercussions in Europe if Californian went bankrupt
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One of these days they're going to start collecting. And if the Federal Government loans them too much money and doesn't get it back, they could bankrupt the Government! This is why they were so scared to let the city go bankrupt because too many banks would fail that hold bonds and stuff.
Too many businesses would fail, people would fail, just like a row of dominoes, they'd collapse right on down the line including banks in other cities and they'd even have repercussions in Europe if Californian went bankrupt
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Matt Lauer will interview Mr. Bush on a prime-time broadcast Nov. 8, one day before Mr. Bush’s book, “Decision Points,” is released by Crown Publishers. Mr. Lauer will interview Mr. Bush again live on the “Today” show, the country’s highest-rated morning show, on Nov. 10. It is easy to see why he and his cohorts would have done everything in their pernicious power to get their nefarious names and dastardly deeds off the telly and out of the papers for awhile! But now after two years of being out of office, he is still defending his views. Germany's justice minister found herself in hot water for saying that "Bush wants to divert attention from his domestic problems. It's a classic tactic. It's one that Hitler also used." She later denied that she had compared Bush to Hitler, but did say that their methods were similar. German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder was reelected but found himself in the bad graces of the U.S. for his own stance against a U.S. invasion of Iraq. Hitler was an expert at distracting his people's attention from their real problems and his own mistakes by dragging the red herrings of Red Jewry across his hell-bent trail of national destruction, and conjuring foes without to divert their attention from their much more serious affairs within.
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Matt Lauer will interview Mr. Bush on a prime-time broadcast Nov. 8, one day before Mr. Bush’s book, “Decision Points,” is released by Crown Publishers. Mr. Lauer will interview Mr. Bush again live on the “Today” show, the country’s highest-rated morning show, on Nov. 10. It is easy to see why he and his cohorts would have done everything in their pernicious power to get their nefarious names and dastardly deeds off the telly and out of the papers for awhile! But now after two years of being out of office, he is still defending his views. Germany's justice minister found herself in hot water for saying that "Bush wants to divert attention from his domestic problems. It's a classic tactic. It's one that Hitler also used." She later denied that she had compared Bush to Hitler, but did say that their methods were similar. German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder was reelected but found himself in the bad graces of the U.S. for his own stance against a U.S. invasion of Iraq. Hitler was an expert at distracting his people's attention from their real problems and his own mistakes by dragging the red herrings of Red Jewry across his hell-bent trail of national destruction, and conjuring foes without to divert their attention from their much more serious affairs within.
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Matt Lauer will interview Mr. Bush on a prime-time broadcast Nov. 8, one day before Mr. Bush’s book, “Decision Points,” is released by Crown Publishers. Mr. Lauer will interview Mr. Bush again live on the “Today” show, the country’s highest-rated morning show, on Nov. 10. It is easy to see why he and his cohorts would have done everything in their pernicious power to get their nefarious names and dastardly deeds off the telly and out of the papers for awhile! But now after two years of being out of office, he is still defending his views. Germany's justice minister found herself in hot water for saying that "Bush wants to divert attention from his domestic problems. It's a classic tactic. It's one that Hitler also used." She later denied that she had compared Bush to Hitler, but did say that their methods were similar. German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder was reelected but found himself in the bad graces of the U.S. for his own stance against a U.S. invasion of Iraq. Hitler was an expert at distracting his people's attention from their real problems and his own mistakes by dragging the red herrings of Red Jewry across his hell-bent trail of national destruction, and conjuring foes without to divert their attention from their much more serious affairs within.
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Well, I think it’s important to look at who the tea party are, what the tea party is. I mean, let’s remember, it’s many different organizations. They wouldn’t be there if it hadn’t been for an enormous amount of money from a few—well, Simon Johnson calls them the "13 bankers." 13 Bankers is the rise of concentrated financial power and the threat it poses to our economic well-being. Over the past three decades, a handful of banks became spectacularly large and profitable and used their power and prestige to reshape the political landscape.
More remarkable, the responses of both the Bush and Obama administrations to the crisis–bailing out the megabanks on generous terms, without securing any meaningful reform–demonstrate the lasting political power of Wall Street. The largest banks have become more powerful and more emphatically “too big to fail,” with no incentive to change their behavior in the future. This only sets the stage for another financial crisis, another government bailout, and another increase in our national debt economic well-being.
The Wall Street world that Barack Obama told, "I’m the only thing that stands between you and the pitchforks," turned around, and for all the compromising that Barack Obama did to Wall Street and to the banksters who had brought us the crisis that he inherited when he was elected president, they turned around and poured money into the organizations that we think of as the tea party.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Well, I think it’s important to look at who the tea party are, what the tea party is. I mean, let’s remember, it’s many different organizations. They wouldn’t be there if it hadn’t been for an enormous amount of money from a few—well, Simon Johnson calls them the "13 bankers." 13 Bankers is the rise of concentrated financial power and the threat it poses to our economic well-being. Over the past three decades, a handful of banks became spectacularly large and profitable and used their power and prestige to reshape the political landscape.
More remarkable, the responses of both the Bush and Obama administrations to the crisis–bailing out the megabanks on generous terms, without securing any meaningful reform–demonstrate the lasting political power of Wall Street. The largest banks have become more powerful and more emphatically “too big to fail,” with no incentive to change their behavior in the future. This only sets the stage for another financial crisis, another government bailout, and another increase in our national debt economic well-being.
The Wall Street world that Barack Obama told, "I’m the only thing that stands between you and the pitchforks," turned around, and for all the compromising that Barack Obama did to Wall Street and to the banksters who had brought us the crisis that he inherited when he was elected president, they turned around and poured money into the organizations that we think of as the tea party.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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As the Obama administration rejects a foreclosure moratorium and austerity protests grip Europe, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz backs calls for a foreclosure moratorium and says opponents of a new government stimulus "don't understand basic economics."
One of the first bankers to loan money to the government was a German who became known as Rothschild who started lending to the prince in power in the late 1700s and who soon found himself a part of the national finance business. Rothschild then sent his five sons to the major cities of Italy, Austria, France and England to set up similar banks, which soon became powerful in the same manner, all the while cooperating with each other and not divulging their business secrets to outsiders.
Those same mortgage companies, the banks, are engaged in predatory lending practices. They weren't asking what was the best mortgage for these homeowners; they were asking what was the mortgage that generated most fees for me. The way the mortgage system worked, they could take bad mortgages, sell them off to investment banks that would repackage them and sell them on to other people.
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As the Obama administration rejects a foreclosure moratorium and austerity protests grip Europe, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz backs calls for a foreclosure moratorium and says opponents of a new government stimulus "don't understand basic economics."
One of the first bankers to loan money to the government was a German who became known as Rothschild who started lending to the prince in power in the late 1700s and who soon found himself a part of the national finance business. Rothschild then sent his five sons to the major cities of Italy, Austria, France and England to set up similar banks, which soon became powerful in the same manner, all the while cooperating with each other and not divulging their business secrets to outsiders.
Those same mortgage companies, the banks, are engaged in predatory lending practices. They weren't asking what was the best mortgage for these homeowners; they were asking what was the mortgage that generated most fees for me. The way the mortgage system worked, they could take bad mortgages, sell them off to investment banks that would repackage them and sell them on to other people.
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Well, I think it’s important to look at who the tea party are, what the tea party is. I mean, let’s remember, it’s many different organizations. They wouldn’t be there if it hadn’t been for an enormous amount of money from a few—well, Simon Johnson calls them the "13 bankers." 13 Bankers is the rise of concentrated financial power and the threat it poses to our economic well-being. Over the past three decades, a handful of banks became spectacularly large and profitable and used their power and prestige to reshape the political landscape.
More remarkable, the responses of both the Bush and Obama administrations to the crisis–bailing out the megabanks on generous terms, without securing any meaningful reform–demonstrate the lasting political power of Wall Street. The largest banks have become more powerful and more emphatically “too big to fail,” with no incentive to change their behavior in the future. This only sets the stage for another financial crisis, another government bailout, and another increase in our national debt economic well-being.
The Wall Street world that Barack Obama told, "I’m the only thing that stands between you and the pitchforks," turned around, and for all the compromising that Barack Obama did to Wall Street and to the banksters who had brought us the crisis that he inherited when he was elected president, they turned around and poured money into the organizations that we think of as the tea party. Other the people, as well, but, you know, $75 million from the US Chamber of Commerce, most of it, almost all of it, anonymous money.
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Well, I think it’s important to look at who the tea party are, what the tea party is. I mean, let’s remember, it’s many different organizations. They wouldn’t be there if it hadn’t been for an enormous amount of money from a few—well, Simon Johnson calls them the "13 bankers." 13 Bankers is the rise of concentrated financial power and the threat it poses to our economic well-being. Over the past three decades, a handful of banks became spectacularly large and profitable and used their power and prestige to reshape the political landscape.
More remarkable, the responses of both the Bush and Obama administrations to the crisis–bailing out the megabanks on generous terms, without securing any meaningful reform–demonstrate the lasting political power of Wall Street. The largest banks have become more powerful and more emphatically “too big to fail,” with no incentive to change their behavior in the future. This only sets the stage for another financial crisis, another government bailout, and another increase in our national debt economic well-being.
The Wall Street world that Barack Obama told, "I’m the only thing that stands between you and the pitchforks," turned around, and for all the compromising that Barack Obama did to Wall Street and to the banksters who had brought us the crisis that he inherited when he was elected president, they turned around and poured money into the organizations that we think of as the tea party. Other the people, as well, but, you know, $75 million from the US Chamber of Commerce, most of it, almost all of it, anonymous money.
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ACCORDING to a letter published from a reader named Ted Rudow, numbers compiled by several sources, including Iraq Body Count, more than 100,000 civilians were killed in Iraq over a period of six years, from 2004 to 2009. This seems to be on the low side considering the ferocity of the ‘shock and awe’ aerial bombardment by the US and its allies followed by ground assault by an overwhelming force of tanks and artillery. The casualty figure is certainly very small compared to 3,000,000 civilians killed in nine months by the Pakistani army in Bangladesh in 1971. The Iraq Body Count appears to be a voluntary body formed to track civilian deaths during the war. No such organisation existed in Bangladesh. We also missed an opportunity to tabulate civilian deaths at the hands of Pakistani army at the time of 1973 census. Surely data may have been easily collected from people. This could have been of considerable historical value and helped in the war crimes trial in Bangladesh. A citizen Via e-mail
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ACCORDING to a letter published from a reader named Ted Rudow, numbers compiled by several sources, including Iraq Body Count, more than 100,000 civilians were killed in Iraq over a period of six years, from 2004 to 2009. This seems to be on the low side considering the ferocity of the ‘shock and awe’ aerial bombardment by the US and its allies followed by ground assault by an overwhelming force of tanks and artillery. The casualty figure is certainly very small compared to 3,000,000 civilians killed in nine months by the Pakistani army in Bangladesh in 1971. The Iraq Body Count appears to be a voluntary body formed to track civilian deaths during the war. No such organisation existed in Bangladesh. We also missed an opportunity to tabulate civilian deaths at the hands of Pakistani army at the time of 1973 census. Surely data may have been easily collected from people. This could have been of considerable historical value and helped in the war crimes trial in Bangladesh. A citizen Via e-mail
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The Nov. 2 midterm elections reshaped America’s political map as Democrats lost the supermajority they had won in the 2008 general election.
House Democrats lost 60 seats, ending up with a 185 to 239 seat count while hanging onto a narrow 52 to 46 seat majority in the Senate, according to The New York Times.
In a post-election news conference, President Barack Obama referred to the loss as an electoral “shellacking” for the Democratic Party, but said he remains optimistic to have a reasoned discourse with Republicans in the months to come.
“I do believe there is hope for civility,” he said. “I do believe there’s hope for progress. And that’s because I believe in the resiliency of a nation that’s bounced back from much worse than what we’re going through right now.”
John Boehner, Republican speaker-elect of the U.S. House of Representatives, said the Republican victory reflected the American voters’ desire to “change course.”
“Across the country right now, we are witnessing a repudiation of Washington, a repudiation of Big Government and a repudiation of politicians who refuse to listen to the people,” he said.
Senate majority leader Harry Reid, who won a hotly contested election against tea party-favorite Sharron Angle in Nevada, said the change in the balance of power means that the Democrats will have to find a way to collaborate with both House and Senate Republicans.
“History dictates that we have to work together,” he said. “Gridlock will not do the trick.”
Obama was conciliatory in his remarks, admitting that Tuesday’s election was indicative of the American people’s dissatisfaction with the progress that his administration has made since taking office in 2009.
“Too many Americans haven’t felt that progress yet, and they told us that yesterday,” he said. “And as president, I take responsibility for that.”
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Ted Rudow III,MA says:
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Well, I think it’s important to look at who the tea party are, what the tea party is. I mean, let’s remember, it’s many different organizations. They wouldn’t be there if it hadn’t been for an enormous amount of money from a few—well, Simon Johnson calls them the “13 bankers.”
13 Bankers is the rise of concentrated financial power and the threat it poses to our economic well-being. Over the past three decades, a handful of banks became spectacularly large and profitable and used their power and prestige to reshape the political landscape.
More remarkable, the responses of both the Bush and Obama administrations to the crisis–bailing out the megabanks on generous terms, without securing any meaningful reform–demonstrate the lasting political power of Wall Street. The largest banks have become more powerful and more emphatically “too big to fail,” with no incentive to change their behavior in the future. This only sets the stage for another financial crisis, another government bailout, and another increase in our national debt economic well-being.
The Wall Street world that Barack Obama told, “I’m the only thing that stands between you and the pitchforks,” turned around, and for all the compromising that Barack Obama did to Wall Street and to the banksters who had brought us the crisis that he inherited when he was elected president, they turned around and poured money into the organizations that we think of as the tea party. Other the people, as well, but, you know, $75 million from the US Chamber of Commerce, most of it, almost all of it, anonymous money.
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The Nov. 2 midterm elections reshaped America’s political map as Democrats lost the supermajority they had won in the 2008 general election.
House Democrats lost 60 seats, ending up with a 185 to 239 seat count while hanging onto a narrow 52 to 46 seat majority in the Senate, according to The New York Times.
In a post-election news conference, President Barack Obama referred to the loss as an electoral “shellacking” for the Democratic Party, but said he remains optimistic to have a reasoned discourse with Republicans in the months to come.
“I do believe there is hope for civility,” he said. “I do believe there’s hope for progress. And that’s because I believe in the resiliency of a nation that’s bounced back from much worse than what we’re going through right now.”
John Boehner, Republican speaker-elect of the U.S. House of Representatives, said the Republican victory reflected the American voters’ desire to “change course.”
“Across the country right now, we are witnessing a repudiation of Washington, a repudiation of Big Government and a repudiation of politicians who refuse to listen to the people,” he said.
Senate majority leader Harry Reid, who won a hotly contested election against tea party-favorite Sharron Angle in Nevada, said the change in the balance of power means that the Democrats will have to find a way to collaborate with both House and Senate Republicans.
“History dictates that we have to work together,” he said. “Gridlock will not do the trick.”
Obama was conciliatory in his remarks, admitting that Tuesday’s election was indicative of the American people’s dissatisfaction with the progress that his administration has made since taking office in 2009.
“Too many Americans haven’t felt that progress yet, and they told us that yesterday,” he said. “And as president, I take responsibility for that.”
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Ted Rudow III,MA says:
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Well, I think it’s important to look at who the tea party are, what the tea party is. I mean, let’s remember, it’s many different organizations. They wouldn’t be there if it hadn’t been for an enormous amount of money from a few—well, Simon Johnson calls them the “13 bankers.”
13 Bankers is the rise of concentrated financial power and the threat it poses to our economic well-being. Over the past three decades, a handful of banks became spectacularly large and profitable and used their power and prestige to reshape the political landscape.
More remarkable, the responses of both the Bush and Obama administrations to the crisis–bailing out the megabanks on generous terms, without securing any meaningful reform–demonstrate the lasting political power of Wall Street. The largest banks have become more powerful and more emphatically “too big to fail,” with no incentive to change their behavior in the future. This only sets the stage for another financial crisis, another government bailout, and another increase in our national debt economic well-being.
The Wall Street world that Barack Obama told, “I’m the only thing that stands between you and the pitchforks,” turned around, and for all the compromising that Barack Obama did to Wall Street and to the banksters who had brought us the crisis that he inherited when he was elected president, they turned around and poured money into the organizations that we think of as the tea party. Other the people, as well, but, you know, $75 million from the US Chamber of Commerce, most of it, almost all of it, anonymous money.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Thursday Nov 4th, 2010 3:40 PM
Well, I think it’s important to look at who the tea party are, what the tea party is. I mean, let’s remember, it’s many different organizations. They wouldn’t be there if it hadn’t been for an enormous amount of money from a few—well, Simon Johnson calls them the "13 bankers."
13 Bankers is the rise of concentrated financial power and the threat it poses to our economic well-being. Over the past three decades, a handful of banks became spectacularly large and profitable and used their power and prestige to reshape the political landscape.
More remarkable, the responses of both the Bush and Obama administrations to the crisis–bailing out the megabanks on generous terms, without securing any meaningful reform–demonstrate the lasting political power of Wall Street. The largest banks have become more powerful and more emphatically “too big to fail,” with no incentive to change their behavior in the future. This only sets the stage for another financial crisis, another government bailout, and another increase in our national debt economic well-being.
The Wall Street world that Barack Obama told, "I’m the only thing that stands between you and the pitchforks," turned around, and for all the compromising that Barack Obama did to Wall Street and to the banksters who had brought us the crisis that he inherited when he was elected president, they turned around and poured money into the organizations that we think of as the tea party. Other the people, as well, but, you know, $75 million from the US Chamber of Commerce, most of it, almost all of it, anonymous money.
Ted Rudow III,MA
13 Bankersby Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Thursday Nov 4th, 2010 3:40 PM
Well, I think it’s important to look at who the tea party are, what the tea party is. I mean, let’s remember, it’s many different organizations. They wouldn’t be there if it hadn’t been for an enormous amount of money from a few—well, Simon Johnson calls them the "13 bankers."
13 Bankers is the rise of concentrated financial power and the threat it poses to our economic well-being. Over the past three decades, a handful of banks became spectacularly large and profitable and used their power and prestige to reshape the political landscape.
More remarkable, the responses of both the Bush and Obama administrations to the crisis–bailing out the megabanks on generous terms, without securing any meaningful reform–demonstrate the lasting political power of Wall Street. The largest banks have become more powerful and more emphatically “too big to fail,” with no incentive to change their behavior in the future. This only sets the stage for another financial crisis, another government bailout, and another increase in our national debt economic well-being.
The Wall Street world that Barack Obama told, "I’m the only thing that stands between you and the pitchforks," turned around, and for all the compromising that Barack Obama did to Wall Street and to the banksters who had brought us the crisis that he inherited when he was elected president, they turned around and poured money into the organizations that we think of as the tea party. Other the people, as well, but, you know, $75 million from the US Chamber of Commerce, most of it, almost all of it, anonymous money.
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Dear Editor: Civilians have borne the brunt of modern warfare, with 10 civilians dying for every soldier in wars fought since the mid-20th century, compared with nine soldiers killed for every civilian in World War I, according to a 2001 study by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
But it does seem to suggest numbers that are roughly in line with those compiled by several sources, including Iraq Body Count, an organization that tracked civilian deaths using press reports -- a method the Bush administration repeatedly derided as unreliable and producing inflated numbers. In all, the five-year archive lists more than 100,000 dead from 2004 to 2009, though some deaths are reported more than once, and some reports have inconsistent casualty figures.
Iraq Body Count, which did a preliminary analysis of the archive, estimated that it listed 15,000 deaths that had not been previously disclosed anywhere.
You just can't imagine people in this supposedly civilized age actually going to war. Their whole culture is to blame. A culture that says war is all right, that it's legitimate to tear bodies apart and destroy the lives of men, women and children. You just can't imagine civilized people talking calmly about it. War is insanity. They're declaring war in the name of peace.
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Dear Editor: Civilians have borne the brunt of modern warfare, with 10 civilians dying for every soldier in wars fought since the mid-20th century, compared with nine soldiers killed for every civilian in World War I, according to a 2001 study by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
But it does seem to suggest numbers that are roughly in line with those compiled by several sources, including Iraq Body Count, an organization that tracked civilian deaths using press reports -- a method the Bush administration repeatedly derided as unreliable and producing inflated numbers. In all, the five-year archive lists more than 100,000 dead from 2004 to 2009, though some deaths are reported more than once, and some reports have inconsistent casualty figures.
Iraq Body Count, which did a preliminary analysis of the archive, estimated that it listed 15,000 deaths that had not been previously disclosed anywhere.
You just can't imagine people in this supposedly civilized age actually going to war. Their whole culture is to blame. A culture that says war is all right, that it's legitimate to tear bodies apart and destroy the lives of men, women and children. You just can't imagine civilized people talking calmly about it. War is insanity. They're declaring war in the name of peace.
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The voting process is made so difficult that only the most determined manage to be able to use it--usually those with some political log to roll; largely property owners, or again, the rich, as opposed to the poor; longtime resident property owners, as opposed to the shifting, migratory, labour force.
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To buy a election is wrong! Of course, even in our own country,the Senate, so called, is no longer truly representative as it should be, because in the first place, it takes a rich man or woman to be able to run for such an office, and it takes a long-time resident of any state or country to be able to register to vote.
The voting process is made so difficult that only the most determined manage to be able to use it--usually those with some political log to roll; largely property owners, or again, the rich, as opposed to the poor; longtime resident property owners, as opposed to the shifting, migratory, labour force.
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A history professor who specializes in military history at SJSU said that veterans are just normal people but at the same time, combat veterans are a sort of subculture.
“These young people have experienced things that most people will not,” said Jonathan Roth. “The crucible of war, as they call it, changes them. And I don’t think we should focus on them as somehow sick or ill, but I think they’ve earned our respect.”
Roth said that while some veterans need extra help working through post-traumatic stress disorder, others are working through the process of rebuilding and moving on by themselves.
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Ted Rudow III,MA says:
October 31, 2010
Civilians have borne the brunt of modern warfare, with 10 civilians dying for every soldier in wars fought since the mid-20th century, compared with 9 soldiers killed for every civilian in World War I, according to a 2001 study by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
But it does seem to suggest numbers that are roughly in line with those compiled by several sources, including Iraq Body Count, an organisation that tracked civilian deaths using press reports, a method the Bush administration repeatedly derided as unreliable and producing inflated numbers.
In all, the five-year archive lists more than 100,000 dead from 2004 to 2009, though some deaths are reported more than once, and some reports have inconsistent casualty figures. Iraq Body Count, which did a preliminary analysis of the archive, estimated that it listed 15,000 deaths that had not been previously disclosed anywhere.
You just can’t imagine people in this supposedly civilised age actually going to war. Their whole culture is to blame. A culture that says war is all right, that it’s legitimate to tear bodies apart and destroy the lives of men, women and children. You just can’t imagine civilised people talking calmly about it.
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When Army Spc. Jason Lopez first arrived in Afghanistan in 2004, these small tents are where the soldiers slept for weeks. Photo courtesy of Jason Lopez
A history professor who specializes in military history at SJSU said that veterans are just normal people but at the same time, combat veterans are a sort of subculture.
“These young people have experienced things that most people will not,” said Jonathan Roth. “The crucible of war, as they call it, changes them. And I don’t think we should focus on them as somehow sick or ill, but I think they’ve earned our respect.”
Roth said that while some veterans need extra help working through post-traumatic stress disorder, others are working through the process of rebuilding and moving on by themselves.
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Ted Rudow III,MA says:
October 31, 2010
Civilians have borne the brunt of modern warfare, with 10 civilians dying for every soldier in wars fought since the mid-20th century, compared with 9 soldiers killed for every civilian in World War I, according to a 2001 study by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
But it does seem to suggest numbers that are roughly in line with those compiled by several sources, including Iraq Body Count, an organisation that tracked civilian deaths using press reports, a method the Bush administration repeatedly derided as unreliable and producing inflated numbers.
In all, the five-year archive lists more than 100,000 dead from 2004 to 2009, though some deaths are reported more than once, and some reports have inconsistent casualty figures. Iraq Body Count, which did a preliminary analysis of the archive, estimated that it listed 15,000 deaths that had not been previously disclosed anywhere.
You just can’t imagine people in this supposedly civilised age actually going to war. Their whole culture is to blame. A culture that says war is all right, that it’s legitimate to tear bodies apart and destroy the lives of men, women and children. You just can’t imagine civilised people talking calmly about it.
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Civilians have borne the brunt of modern warfare, with 10 civilians dying for every soldier in wars fought since the mid-20th century, compared with 9 soldiers killed for every civilian in World War I, according to a 2001 study by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
But it does seem to suggest numbers that are roughly in line with those compiled by several sources, including Iraq Body Count, an organisation that tracked civilian deaths using press reports, a method the Bush administration repeatedly derided as unreliable and producing inflated numbers.
In all, the five-year archive lists more than 100,000 dead from 2004 to 2009, though some deaths are reported more than once, and some reports have inconsistent casualty figures. Iraq Body Count, which did a preliminary analysis of the archive, estimated that it listed 15,000 deaths that had not been previously disclosed anywhere.
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Civilians have borne the brunt of modern warfare, with 10 civilians dying for every soldier in wars fought since the mid-20th century, compared with 9 soldiers killed for every civilian in World War I, according to a 2001 study by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
But it does seem to suggest numbers that are roughly in line with those compiled by several sources, including Iraq Body Count, an organisation that tracked civilian deaths using press reports, a method the Bush administration repeatedly derided as unreliable and producing inflated numbers.
In all, the five-year archive lists more than 100,000 dead from 2004 to 2009, though some deaths are reported more than once, and some reports have inconsistent casualty figures. Iraq Body Count, which did a preliminary analysis of the archive, estimated that it listed 15,000 deaths that had not been previously disclosed anywhere.
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Civilians have borne the brunt of modern warfare, with 10 civilians dying for every soldier in wars fought since the mid-20th century, compared with 9 soldiers killed for every civilian in World War I, according to a 2001 study by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
But it does seem to suggest numbers that are roughly in line with those compiled by several sources, including Iraq Body Count, an organisation that tracked civilian deaths using press reports, a method the Bush administration repeatedly derided as unreliable and producing inflated numbers.
In all, the five-year archive lists more than 100,000 dead from 2004 to 2009, though some deaths are reported more than once, and some reports have inconsistent casualty figures. Iraq Body Count, which did a preliminary analysis of the archive, estimated that it listed 15,000 deaths that had not been previously disclosed anywhere.
You just can't imagine people in this supposedly civilised age actually going to war. Their whole culture is to blame. A culture that says war is all right, that it's legitimate to tear bodies apart and destroy the lives of men, women and children. You just can't imagine civilised people talking calmly about it.
War is insanity. They're declaring war in the name of peace!
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Civilians have borne the brunt of modern warfare, with 10 civilians dying for every soldier in wars fought since the mid-20th century, compared with 9 soldiers killed for every civilian in World War I, according to a 2001 study by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
But it does seem to suggest numbers that are roughly in line with those compiled by several sources, including Iraq Body Count, an organisation that tracked civilian deaths using press reports, a method the Bush administration repeatedly derided as unreliable and producing inflated numbers.
In all, the five-year archive lists more than 100,000 dead from 2004 to 2009, though some deaths are reported more than once, and some reports have inconsistent casualty figures. Iraq Body Count, which did a preliminary analysis of the archive, estimated that it listed 15,000 deaths that had not been previously disclosed anywhere.
You just can't imagine people in this supposedly civilised age actually going to war. Their whole culture is to blame. A culture that says war is all right, that it's legitimate to tear bodies apart and destroy the lives of men, women and children. You just can't imagine civilised people talking calmly about it.
War is insanity. They're declaring war in the name of peace!
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Civilians have borne the brunt of modern warfare, with 10 civilians dying for every soldier in wars fought since the mid-20th century, compared with nine soldiers killed for every civilian in World War I, according to a 2001 study by the International Committee of the Red Cross. But it does seem to suggest numbers that are roughly in line with those compiled by several sources, including Iraq Body Count, an organization that tracked civilian deaths using press reports, a method the Bush administration repeatedly derided as unreliable and producing inflated numbers.
In all, the five-year archive lists more than 100,000 dead from 2004 to 2009, though some deaths are reported more than once, and some reports have inconsistent casualty figures. Iraq Body Count, which did a preliminary analysis of the archive, estimated that it listed 15,000 deaths that had not been previously disclosed anywhere.
You just can’t imagine people in this supposedly civilized age of intelligent sane people actually going to war. Their whole culture is to blame – a culture that says war is all right, that it’s legitimate to tear bodies apart and destroy the lives of men, women and children! You just can’t imagine civilized people talking calmly about it. War is insanity!
They’re declaring war in the name of peace.
Ted Rudow III, MA
Menlo Park, California, United States
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October 25, 2010
Civilians have borne the brunt of modern warfare, with 10 civilians dying for every soldier in wars fought since the mid-20th century, compared with nine soldiers killed for every civilian in World War I, according to a 2001 study by the International Committee of the Red Cross. But it does seem to suggest numbers that are roughly in line with those compiled by several sources, including Iraq Body Count, an organization that tracked civilian deaths using press reports, a method the Bush administration repeatedly derided as unreliable and producing inflated numbers.
In all, the five-year archive lists more than 100,000 dead from 2004 to 2009, though some deaths are reported more than once, and some reports have inconsistent casualty figures. Iraq Body Count, which did a preliminary analysis of the archive, estimated that it listed 15,000 deaths that had not been previously disclosed anywhere.
You just can’t imagine people in this supposedly civilized age of intelligent sane people actually going to war. Their whole culture is to blame – a culture that says war is all right, that it’s legitimate to tear bodies apart and destroy the lives of men, women and children! You just can’t imagine civilized people talking calmly about it. War is insanity!
They’re declaring war in the name of peace.
Ted Rudow III, MA
Menlo Park, California, United States
International Herald Tribune and The Daily Star are available every morning in: Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman
Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/letters.asp?edition_id=10#ixzz13roQsD7P
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