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freshwest's JournalObama Dares Graduates to Reject Cynical Voices (FULL VIDEO)
Published on May 5, 2013
President Barack Obama told college graduates Sunday that only their generation can break the cycle of a political system consumed by "small things" that works for the benefit of a few. (May 5)
He is calling these graduates to take on the task set for us by the Founding Fathers. But it is not only for those leaving college. The future is theirs - and ours - to win or lose.
An excellent video clip of this was posted by hue in the V&MM forum. Please K&R his video there and get it on the Greatest Page, my BOG friends:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017116732
FYI: This is a post in the BOG, or Barack Obama Group, which is A SAFE HAVEN for supporters of our President and his policies.
That would be me, see my other reply this thread.
Plenty of anti-semitism in the false flag videos on the Boston bombing. Alex Jones quickly made the Israeli claim. Others claim the bombing was a joint operation by Obama, the FBI and Mossad working at the orders of the 'Zionist Bankster Cabal and AIPAC.' Such speech results in violence world wide. This article came out early:
Friday, Apr 19, 2013 2:30 PM
Alex Jones: Suspects “look Israeli”
The conspiracy broadcaster wonders if the Jewish state may have had something to do with the Boston bombings
By Alex Seitz-Wald
In a video posted early this morning laying out a baroque narrative we can’t make heads or tails of, conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones came dangerously close to espousing a Jewish conspiracy theory, speculating that the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing might be Israelis.
Claiming that he had identified the suspect who remains at large, Jones boasted, “the media doesn’t even have this yet. The FBI will probably give it to them in a day.” In fact, the AP and cable news networks identified the two suspects just two or three hours later as Chechen brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
But despite supposedly knowing the ID of the suspect, Jones wasn’t above speculating about their nationality. “These guys kind of look like Israelis. I’m not saying Israel is involved in it, we don’t have any evidence of that. It’s just that they kind of look Israeli,” he said while pointing to an image of the suspects on a computer screen. He added that they could be “North African” or “Spanish-Muslims.” He did not speculate they were Chechens.
He also called MIT, where the suspects reportedly killed a police officer, “mind control central.”
http://www.salon.com/2013/04/19/alex_jones_on_chechen_suspects_these_guys_kind_of_look_like_israelis/
Video in question here:
FBI Orders You Not To Look At This!
He's got fans everywhere and says this stuff 24/7. Next month is his annual radio show talking about how the Israelis bombed the USS Liberty. It's no mystery what breeds this.
It's a variation from Paine's plan for those who have lost the means of production to others.
His Agrarian Justice was printed in its entirety on the SSA website in 2009:
http://www.ssa.gov/history/paine4.html
It is the first in the list here:
http://www.ssa.gov/history/histdocs.html
A search of the site shows more about the philosophy and history of SSA:
http://www.ssa.gov/history/index.html
I'd read it years before in high school history class. My latest search results found it here:
Thomas Paine’s Radicalism
http://riversong.wordpress.com/thomas-paines-radicalism/
A read of several authors we were taught in school are there at that link. I'm unsure why they use the term 'radical.' It is a natural effect of people being displaced by capital or by conquest. Those accumulations can still benefit the whole. But humans are no less human to one who believe as Paine and many of us do in the Rights of Man and should not bound by wealth, a social construct.
The accumulation of land or other valuables is often unjust. Yet we are human beings and part of a whole. Conservatives once admitted the justice of this and supported taxes for it. But we've been dragged into a cesspool by 'cranky billionaires' who demonize those they robbed while following Ayn Rand.
Full justice between classes is unlikely to ever be met, due to different starting points in life. The 'radical' link does not care much for the faulty 'progressive' solution, but the living cannot wait for the perfect solution or utopia. Socialism in the Americas was an outgrowth of utopianism, but a consensus on how to get there has not been made, and possibly never will be.
I love this OP. The removal of power from an intermediary that can be corrupted and steal value. An unconditional and firm level of support is the justice which frees the river of human creativity. An unspoken baseline is what we need to achieve while fending off the sociopathic billionaires and their poisonous teachings.
David Korten speaks of an inverse pyramid of power, in which each person's ability and ideas will expand up from each person outward to solve world problems. Without a baseline set without judgement, we will never get the peace and justice that Thomas Paine calls for.
Not presupposing anyone at DU hasn't been taught or read these ideas years ago, but here are some links. These were basic studies in the sixties and seventies in public school but I don't know what is taught now. It was the foundation of our beliefs about civil rights and how government should be:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrarian_Justice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_of_Man
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Reason
Thanks for bringing these ideas. I hope this heralds a turnabout in the conditions of women in India, not forced to live lives dictated as they have been, or sacrifice their lives in unsafe factories as we saw recently.
IDK. The only real negativity I see is on the net and news. The people where I live are unfailingly
kind and generous, forward looking and tolerant.They have struggles but they don't sink down into a pit of bitterness and despair. And I have seen many die way before their time in my life, people that I would give anything to just see the love in their eyes, for only one more moment, to hear their voice. It cannot be.
I know that it sounds nuts, but I've found in my later years that people give you back the same energy that you give to them. Complete strangers even.
And I am not looking as I once did, my step is no longer the lope that I enjoyed that showed my pleasure with life. I have little money and possibly less of the pleasures that many take for granted. And my friends and family are no different.
I've found that all or nothing, always and never, are not really true in our infinite existance. Some years back I began to talk with people around the world. Their lives were not without pain or loss. But they showed me their lives, and even when we discuss climate change and destruction, is not all there is. Not even in this country.
I remember being glad to see that there were millions of acres of land that was not polluted, not turned over to commerical use, suburbia, concrete, auto exhaust. And there are many beautiful places in the Americas as well. But we don't see that much, our focus is too narrow. Yet they are there, co-existing with our visions of misery.
I am deeply concerned at what I see as the finer or delicate and loving things in life being swept away, but deliberately choose to not associate with loud, rude or aggressive persons. They are a tiny minority where I live, and have settled into what I only can describe as lower or earthly vibration, all things are heavy and dark with them. That's not the majority of people, not even the median.
I also know we are each made for our time, the resonance or songs that we sing like birds calling out to each other in the trees, wanting to hear the echo of memory. There is a sense of bereavement when one's family or friends or songs that we once sang with them disappear from our mileau. Even if it sounds gloomly, it is inevitable, we are made for only a season.
Charles Sanders Pierce said:
'If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when every thing in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.'
Another person said:
Put that way, death can be seen as a blessing. A way to hold on to some of your ideals and beliefs, to not get completely embittered by life.
All things pass, pain and evil, pleasure and great. That's all I have to say, but probably have said too much.
If you can stand it, read these Ronald Reagan Wikiquotes:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ronald_ReaganIt's a pisser. All the keys are right there. Along with his joke about recession and depression. Good old Saint Ronnie.
Protecting and Preserving Social Security Act and the Social Security Fairness Act of 2013:
More about part 2 from the link:
The second part of that bill would revise how SS payments are adjusted to better reflect how America’s senior spend their income. Currently, payments are based on a Consumer Price Index model that does not accurately reflect higher costs seniors pay, for medications, for example. The bill would create a CPI – E for elders.
Increases Benefits for Seniors and Persons with Disabilities.
Currently, Social Security benefits are adjusted by the Consumer Price Index for workers. However, costs and spending patterns for seniors do not mirror those of the workforce. That is why Sen. Begich’s bill calls for adjusting cost-of-living increases with a Consumer Price Index specifically for the elderly which was created to more accurately measure the costs of goods and services seniors actually buy.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/03/1206754/-AK-Sen-Mark-Begich-D-Will-Introduce-The-Protecting-Preserving-Social-Security-Act-On-Monday
Not sure about first paragraph, but the second is exactly what people getting COLA have said for years. Spending habits are vastly different than those in the work force, and predicating the index on that measure was not geared for those on SS, etc.
This is much like what Begich suggested last year. I'll be calling my representatives about this, since it is a specific proposal and not media spin. All members of Congress need to be called, Senate and HoR, to let them know in line with the faulty 'austerity' tables, we expect better from them.
Thanks for posting, will be sharing.
Those people only know what the media spins, but you know what's really going on. Thanks.
Glad he managed to get this. I have friends who are losing thousands of dollars in wages and other
things due to the Sequester, but they agree that the most needy are a national priority.From the comments on the Politicusa page, things I'd heard briefly, compressed:
Reynardine Reply
May. 3rd, 2013 at 11:13 am
The evidence has been pointing that way for some time: in the stochastic incitements to violence; in the increasingly extreme” Second Amendment” advocacy; and, last summer, in the brazen parading by the youngest Koch brother of his very own tanks and heavy artillery through a small Colorado town, though in fact the very wealthy have been war-gaming with this stuff for some time.
National Guard and regular military units have for some time been infiltrated by Dominionist chaplains, anti Muslim indoctrination of the most murderous kind is carried out there, and – in contradiction to the United States Code – even our overseas units in combat zones are bombarded with Fox-wing newscasts implying our President is “one”.
We are looking at some grim prospects. Maybe Jakarta. Maybe Santiago. Maybe worse.
Don’t let fear write the script, but let vigilance and prudence inform it.
Remember last year's soldiers who killed some people as they prepared their mission to kill Obama and overturn the government? And all of these open threats in various states?
All of my state leaders were under death threats and these people are getting elected with a lot of out of state money and organizing. Representative government is under siege, and what we've been denying, and fleeing from here are the siren calls that to bring order is to be a police state.
We're being hit from the right and the 'left,' which seems so like the right it's hard to believe they want a representative government to exist as they do nothing but degrade it, attack those who say it can do some good and refuse to work in it. The CT is funded by the Koch, so are the Teas and Libertarians, they are not stupid, but damn if they aren't vicious in the extreme, and not stopping.
As the comment said, not to live in fear, but we are seeing this country physically torn about by this philosophy. At what point do we say that it's against our lawful government, when so many refuse to heed anything the government says it is charged to do, enforce laws, healthcare, etc?
If DU is any representation of what we are going to do to resist these reactionaries, we are setting ourselves up to fail.
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