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Posted on Sep 27, 2010

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By ocjim, September 28, 2010 at 9:09 am Link to this comment

In spite of the Fox Noise jingoistic nonsense, the US is sinking in many ways: poverty rate going up, manufacturing base lost to foreign countries, innovation structure ruptured, and obstructionist who care for themselves more than our country. Our decline will come even before global warming does in the world.

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By David L. Harvey, September 28, 2010 at 8:00 am Link to this comment
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This is a powerful image, especially when you recall the WWII photo of Woddy Guthrie and is ghitar with teh incription on the guitar, “This Machine kille Fascists. “The First time as Tragedy, the Second Time as Farce.”

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By Bronwen Rowlands, September 28, 2010 at 4:56 am Link to this comment
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This land is their land…This land’s the bank’s land…
From California…To the New York island…

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By Bronwen Rowlands, September 28, 2010 at 3:55 am Link to this comment
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This land’s the bank’s land
This land is their land
From the redwood forests
To the New York island…

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By Tom Earnist, September 28, 2010 at 12:50 am Link to this comment
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You’re being too harsh Mr. Fish.  After all he is a politician, we have to work with
what we got.

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By rend, September 27, 2010 at 5:03 pm Link to this comment
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What happened to the mideast peace process? man that flew off the front page.

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By ibh, September 27, 2010 at 4:55 pm Link to this comment
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That’s because we do not believe in work - only in angels, magic, and all that garbage. 
Grow Up it takes work, and work takes time

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By TheHaplessCapitalist, September 27, 2010 at 4:16 pm Link to this comment

I sincerely believe that Obama had all of right intentions as he was going into office.  Of course, all of that changed the day Obama “Mr. president-elect” officially became Obama “Mr. President of USA.”  After his inauguration, some very powerful individuals took him to an undisclosed backroom where they firmly grabbed the president by the nuts and, like in any classic mobster movie, demanded that he only answer to them.  When you watch the president closely on television, you can tell that he’s speaking to two different audiences: the corporate interests who (literally) own him, on the one hand, and the general public who he only wishes he could help, on the other hand.

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By doublestandards/glasshouses, September 27, 2010 at 12:54 pm Link to this comment
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He didn’t kill it, he just mugged it.  Somebody else will come along pick it up and mug it again.  That’s the American way.

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