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		<title>Time to Get Crazy</title>
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			<title>dovelane1 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[If everything goes to hell, as is being predicted by more than a few, the rich will find out exactly how dependent they are on the people who are "less than" they are, as their money will be worthless, and won't buy anything. They will end up in the same boat that the poor and middle classes are already in, with few worthwhile skills to call upon. Those of us already in survival mode, we will know the real things they still have to learn.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>dovelane1</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2012 04:49:03 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>dovelane1 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[At best, we are all inter-dependent . I think of the conservatives preaching independence as people who see a drowning person 100 feet from shore, throwing a life jacket out 50 feet, and telling them to swim for it. If we didn't happen to learn how to swim, or we're just not very good at it, or we're exhausted from trying to stay afloat, what do we do then? The following came from another comment section: "Your comment is a breathtaking example of American ignorance and tunnel vision. Here's a news flash - in Australia 4 weeks paid vacation is the statutory MINIMUM, there is paid sick leave, mandatory employer contribution (10%) to superannuation, paid maternity leave and the minimum wage exceeds $17/hour (and yes and australian dollar is worth as much as a us dollar, sometimes more). On top of that we have nearly free health care, and taxes are LOWER not higher. Unemployment is between 4 and 5% and the economy is BOOMING, thanks very much. In fact the minimum wage in Australia FAR EXCEEDS median income in the US. So wake up an look around you instead of just reciting the mantras of the far right. Ensuring people have a decent income, decent health care and decent conditions of employment are good for the economy. It's time Americans woke up." If it works there, and in other countries, why not here? I'm guessing those of you that have bought into the myth of IN-dependence, would be terrified to learn how truly dependent you really are.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>dovelane1</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2012 04:20:48 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>conniejo says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[EXACTLY!!!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>conniejo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 08:33:41 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>conniejo says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[". . . they will HAVE TO work to survive." At what jobs? Oh, yeah! Reagan (and every Republican since) promised that if we gave them tax breaks, they would create jobs for everyone. Thirty years later, we still are waiting for those jobs. Had the government spent that bank bailout money paying people to rebuild our infrastructure, we'd be much further along solving your problem. While there are a few manipulative people in any population -- even (especially) Wall Street -- the vast majority of people don't want to be on welfare. I know this from experience. I grew up in a welfare family. Unless you've walked a mile in another's moccasins, keep your off-base, judgmental comments to yourself.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>conniejo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 08:28:11 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Capn Canard says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Smiley, that is not the problem. The problem is the two party presidential political system, a parliamentary system would be far better for We the People, but the business people would shriek in horror. 3rd parties are like a red headed stepchild and only good for beating about the head. Not voting is just tacit approval of those voted into power. So your tactic is nonsense... though I can see the attraction of washing my hands of any responsibility.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Capn Canard</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 04:33:08 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Capn Canard says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Vonney, Obama is okay, but... well, I won't be so harsh, but I feel Obama has gotten screwed over by those who control the real power in DC. Even the Affordable Care Act(ACA) was opposed by the so called "Conservatives" despite the fact it wa0s originally a conservative policy idea less than ten years ago! So Obama is getting it from both sides, but it is well deserved. For instance if he truly was concerned about the cost of health care then he'd push forward with a single payer plan, but the cost to his re-election efforts would've been the end of his political career. I feel for Obama... he got screwed once he gave that address at the 2004 Dem convention... that alone painted him into a corner, because he became the golden boy and immediately had a target on his back. I suggest that the only reason he is alive is because hijacked Romenycare instead of trying to go with the Single Payer Plan! I believe it has kept him alive. Rest assured that the Powers that Be will use the ACA as a wedge to get even more leverage to give more power to the ideology of privatising everything, not just health care, but education, infrastructure, prisons, hospitals, police, fire departments, they want to privatise everything. So they will complain even if they get what they want... it is all part of the PR and Marketing to prepare for more austerity. Right now they got an erection and they are cheering, "Yea"!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Capn Canard</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 17:39:32 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Gevurah says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I always vote for the same candidate: The Lesser of Two Evils. This time, it's a clear choice. Obama may be short a cojone, and he may be sucking up to the banks and corporations, but somewhere in there glows a tiny, tiny spark of humanity. No president has ever been confronted by the kind of opposition massed against him. The leader of the Senate minority said openly that their job is to ensure that Obama does not have a second term. Money pouring in via Citizens United generates (laughable but effective) propaganda, which an unthinking populace unfortunately often swallows. The Mad Dogs (what the Republican Party has become; it's not your grandfather's Party!!!) have been actively working to wreck the US economy so they can say Obama did it. Yes, I wish Obama were as good as his soaring campaign rhetoric. But remember one thing: If the Mad Dogs get in, they might well have a chance to appoint one or more Supreme Court Justices. Which means goodbye to the tattered shreds of our democracy. But if Obama is re-elected --and is free to spread his (tiny) wings -- HE may have a chance to appoint Justices who will redress the unholy balance of this politicized Court by appointing more human beings -- if a kind Fate removes the worst reactionaries.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Gevurah</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:57:24 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>thirteenthpaladin says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[@futhark First and foremost, I wish you and your family the very best, and am so very sorry for all you have gone through. The fact is, in our system (USA), all it takes is one illness, one medical emergency, to deconstruct a whole family. That initial illness/emergen cy sets off a cascade of such severe, prolonged, and intractable stresses that the caregiver(s) soon or late fall like ninepins. The situation will inevitably exhaust all available reserves of health, means, and what few outside resources may be on offer (if any) Comes the day when everything (and I mean everything) falls on (and I mean falls on) the last able and willing man/woman standing; when he/she stumbles or loses footing, even for a moment, the game is up and then begins the long and harsh road of reconstruction of another life in ruin. Sound dramatic? Well, it's the truth, and it's being repeated in vast numbers all over the states all day, every day. The long love affair that so many in the USA have had with (in truth, an ersatz) "rugged individualism" is nothing more than narcissistic delusion. Those who look to a re-imagined Old West to justify malignantly regressive social policy are deeply ill-informed and they like it that way. The only real "rugged individualists" in the Old West were the mountain men, everyone else honoured reciprocity and mutual need, because nothing less than survival was at stake. It still is.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>thirteenthpaladin</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 09:05:34 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>futhark says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[She had a mailbox key, was still driving and conversing at the time. She just couldn't think of all the words she wanted to say at the time or do simple arithmetic. I had already arranged to have the bill addressed to me rather than her. Neither one of us anticipated that I would have a seizure due to an intercranial lymphoma coincidentally with the arrival of the premium notice. One morning I couldn't get out of the bathtub and the next thing I knew some guy in a white shirt was asking me "Where do you think you are?". Later, I found I was airlifted to a hospital over 100 miles away from home. My wife went to live with her aged mother. My wife is in residential care now and I'm still struggling to get home after two years of living in my daughter's house. Like thirteenpaladin pointed out...Fecal moments occur. The insurance-for-p rofit system simply makes no accommodation for these kinds of circumstances. Not that getting my wife on Social Security Disability Income was any picnic, either...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>futhark</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 07:01:42 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Glen says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[We cannot control the most powerful people on the planet. There have been times throughout history in which folks must recognize the reality of where they live and who controls the territory. Independence and taking care of one's own is extremely important. I understand the sports psychology, but this is real life not a game, in spite of the actors on the stage and the players insisting on fabricating a distorted reality. Step back and take a good look at the U.S. and the citizens. Over 300 million people. Look at what the government does and has done. Take a very good look. See the huge variety of demands from 300 million people? States that are running amok with literally insane policies and new laws? And so much more. What is the answer in keeping the U.S. afloat?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Glen</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 06:03:12 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>lark3650 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I agree. The Ten Indian Commandments are: *TREAT THE EARTH AND ALL THAT DWELL WITH RESPECT *REMAIN CLOSE TO THE SPIRIT *SHOW GREAT RESPECT TO YOUR FELLOW BEINGS *WORK FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL MANKIND *GIVE ASSISTANCE AND GUIDANCE WHEN NEEDED *DO WHAT YOU KNOW TO BE RIGHT *LOOK AFTER THE WELL-BEING OF MIND AND BODY *DEDICATE A SHARE OF YOUR EFFORTS TO THE GREATER GOOD *BE TRUTHFUL AND HONEST AT ALL TIMES *TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS]]></description>
			<dc:creator>lark3650</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 05:15:14 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>lark3650 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[When are people going to realize that the Democrats are controlled by one faction of financiers and the Republicans are controlled by another factions of financiers. It doesn't matter who is in office. While their intentions may be honorable initially, the fact remains that this is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. They take their orders from the big money men that contol them.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>lark3650</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 04:59:35 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>BeaDeeBunker says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Wow, Robt Eagle, you really don't get it, do you? First off, 1 point for answering my comment directed at you, but a minus 99 points for your answer. I'll try and explain it to you, once again. You picked my choice of dishwasher as the sole idea to comment on, and missed the whole ball of wax. Please reply to this scenario and state clearly whether the actions and subsequent outcomes fit into your way of thinking. Does the needle on your moral compass move at all? Ready? Here goes: A Wall Street person who is educated and has the talent to get the job, is working for the biggest, most successful and profitable firm on the street. He's making lots of money and getting lots of bonuses. He makes a decision that causes the firm to lose a half a million dollars. He is fired; no severance pay, no bonus, no pension, no nothing. He has to be out of the building with just the clothes on his back. Meanwhile, across town, an uneducated dishwasher, while doing his minimum wage job, lets a stack of dirty dishes slip through his hands causing them to all smash to pieces on the floor. The owner gives him a huge bonus, promotes him to maitre d', and gives him half ownership in the restaurant. What just happened here? I await your 'educated' reply.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>BeaDeeBunker</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:26:37 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>LonnyEachus says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Quote: "The ideologues of rapacious capitalism, like members of a primitive cult ... dismiss calls for equitable distribution as unnecessary... all will soon share in the “expanding” wealth, which in fact is swiftly diminishing." This is economic nonsense. Corp. and gov. abuse (Wall Street B.S., trickery by the Fed, & other financial shenanigans), ARE NOT "capitalism"!! There is no room in actual capitalism for greed and corruption. Read your Smith. The very existence of the Fed is anti-capitalist . The majority of Wall Street trading: hedge funds, derivatives, high-speed swaps, etc. are not capitalist. It is nothing more than a government-spon sored casino, complete with house advantage. The only Capitalist thing about Wall Street is is when it buys and sells public stock to real human beings. But that has been less of its business every year. As for the economy: you try to blame that on "capitalism"??? What hogwash. If you chart Government intervention in the economy -- that is to say, Socialism rather than Capitalism -- against the value of the dollar, you can very clearly see an INVERSE relationship! Since 1913, when the Fed was first created. It is indisputable. The more the government messes with the economy, the worse it has been. I have the data, from Gov. sources, and the charts. A reasonable, thinking human being who saw the numbers would have to admit it.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>LonnyEachus</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 20:32:02 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>thirteenthpaladin says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[@Mrcead Actually a deserted island would possibly be quite hospitable, when compared to the developed world; after all, no competition for resources and no prior (spurious) claims of ownership/contr ol of same. I think, rather, "Go live as a poor son/daughter of poor parents of poor grandparents of displaced ("wrong" colour/ethnicit y) poor great-grandpare nts in an exploitative and extractive economy entirely corrupted by vast and ill-gotten gains to serve those who are nothing like you in heritage and who care not a fig for you and people like you, the land base, or human decency." Oh, wait ...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>thirteenthpaladin</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:38:03 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>thirteenthpaladin says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ As a brilliant surgeon once remarked: "All my skill, training, experience, and dedication, as well as that of my team, can be quickly and horrifically undone by a simple lack of provision of skill, training, experience, and dedication on the part of the housekeeping department and custodial staff. Post-surgical infection far too often kills patients we had thought saved by timely and skilled surgical intervention. Everyone who works in theatre, pre-, and post-op, is an equally important part of what we do; no one is less important than anyone else, less central to best praxis and good outcomes for our patients." The truly educated and skilled can be - and so often are - wise, and inclined to eschew false pride.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>thirteenthpaladin</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:22:42 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>thirteenthpaladin says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I fear that I may have given far more credit than is due: I considered that you might be a real conservative - albeit an unearthly lucky one - and, altho of fundamentally good will, not accustomed to taking on board the sometimes grim realities to be found in the lives of others. What I have described in the Amish community is nothing like insurance, neither in character nor application, and if you think it is, you have much to learn and far to go. The community support in face of misfortune found among the Amish is not charity, but rather, wisdom in action; in contrast, the "organized coverage" which you find such an improvement over the Amish model, is, in fact, a matter of leaving one's fate to at least the possibility, if not the likelihood or certainty, of predation and profiteering. A "quality" contract, as any contract lawyer will tell you, is worth exactly the good will both sides invest in it, not a jot more nor less. If ever you must resort to legal action for want of such good will on the part of the issuer of the "quality" contract you hold, you may be rather grateful for the attention paid by "government" to the fate of your "chances"]]></description>
			<dc:creator>thirteenthpaladin</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:06:19 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>thirteenthpaladin says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Under the stated circumstances, no, I wouldn't. Because, you see, all that forethought of which you are so fond and tout so highly works all ways: As a payee for contracted obligations (which I have often been, in my time, and am still, today) I *anticipate* force majeure, human frailty, and the unforeseen, and build that into my business model, so that I can accommodate reality while remaining in business and solvent. Sh** happens, Robert Eagle, no respecter of persons, and if it has never, ever, ever happened to you I suspect: 1. you are barely out of short trousers; 2. you have used others as red shirts, and/or to pay your freight; 3. you are not a regular person, that is to say, a person who is neither a corporation nor a paid representative for corporate or other hidden interests. If you are indeed a real, regular person, your life story is surely the stuff of tragedy, something that may be good for literature and the theatre, but is dreadful for actual people.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>thirteenthpaladin</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 16:43:13 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Scott479 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA["Civilizations in the final stages of decay are dominated by elites out of touch with reality" evidenced by automobile elevators in their newly constructed 20 million dollar mansion....]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Scott479</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 15:03:08 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>wfalco says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hmmm...but it was deeply ingrained in me from early youth sports and through my education years to NEVER GIVE UP! But your philosophy of giving up on "the system" sounds intriguing. Thank you (I guess.)]]></description>
			<dc:creator>wfalco</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:01:53 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>noitall says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[How does your comment answer the points put forward by Beadeebunker? You seem to have a pretty high opinion and assumption of "education and talent" of the cretins that manipulate funds (as do your leaders) but how did that assumption set pan out with Geo. W? Don't put down the skill set of the dishwasher. Put a CEO in that role and he'll look like a fool AND, where would we be without dishwashers? Probably worse off than in a world without CEOs (given the state of our economy today). At what level in our society does one gain respect in your line of thinking?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>noitall</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 12:44:12 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>noitall says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bob Eagle, you obviously have your mind made up and so be it. Unfortunately, life isn't as you have apparently experienced. For many, the world has changed and rules you live by as most of us also do, fall short today due to the "hole plugging" of the richest among us, thanks to their owned politicians who have no loyalty to the larger goals of this democracy. They, and people who re-live the old paradigm, can carry this sociopathic attitude, this John Wayne portrait of America where everyone can pick themselves up by their bootstraps, and peddle it to Americans like you to parrot to their own chagrin. How is it that I know that you are a White American? You have not lived in the shoes of others, so you cannot understand other's reality, so take pride that you in effect have "lucked out" and have caught a shard of the American Dream. That dream has been killed by hubris and greed and those that 'lucked out' bet that they will again 'luck out' when another catastrophe befalls. Your ass will be grass along with the rest of us peons.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>noitall</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 12:34:54 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Glen says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Understandable, wfalco. However, I GAVE UP to preserve my sanity. Even if Obama has courage it does not translate into policy and decent laws. He is as much controlled by those maintaining the system as all the rest. He was filtered through the wealthy cabal, as everyone else has been. You are not a conspiracy theorist when recognizing the faults of the system. And, you are quite right about Obama's racial identification. It absolutely has influenced the resentment of thousands of citizens, because they are subject to historical prejudices and the propaganda of the culture, not to mention the government. I have given up on the system and, as I have written prior, am preparing for the future.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Glen</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:51:10 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Robt Eagle says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[BeaDeeBunker, you have got to be kidding me, right. The dishwasher (I've been there for a job in college) can not be compared to a Wall Street person who is educated and has the talent to get that job. You might think they are equal, but in reality they aren't. I DO believe that the heads of the SEC, FINRA, S&P, Moody's, the Fed, Fannie, Freddie, the banks, etc. should all be in jail for NOT doing their jobs leading to the financial crisis. They should all be prosecuted and fined and in jail. Obama failed us on that accord. Eric Holder should be in jail for his incompetence and not producing documents that would implicate himself and the DoJ. But don't compare a dish washer to an executive, it just is ludicrous.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Robt Eagle</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:06:36 -0800</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[13thpaladin, what you just described in the Amish community is called "insurance". The rest of us live in modern American society and due to ease of communication and transportation we have paid insurance that we contribute to making certain that our needs are covered by a form of orgainized coverage, not left to the kindness of others, which is called charity. Get into the modern world, pay your insurance premiums for a quality contract and no worries. Don't do that and leave your chances to the government and you are just fooling yourself.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Robt Eagle</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 08:58:16 -0800</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[So futhark...you let your Alzheimer's wife be in charge of the bills??? Come on, that is no excues. You were the Captain of the ship and should have known when to pay the bills. I definitely have no compassion for someone who enters into a contract and then fails to make the payments on time as it is written into the contract! If you were the payee, wouldn't you expect the same?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Robt Eagle</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 08:52:37 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>wfalco says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I agree, Glen. But my primary reason in maintaining support for Obama and the Democrats is to preserve my sanity. I know there is plenty of blame to go around. I still think, however, that there are many bayonets being held to the neck of most politicans in the form of the almighty dollar (and in some cases much more-I am a "conspiracy theorist.")And I absolutely will maintain that Obama may have a bit more courage than many here realize. I think so many of my fellow leftists are so color blinded by their inate sense of fairness that they forget Obama is classified as "African American" in this nation. It is a difference maker in his inability to rally the masses.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>wfalco</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 08:40:56 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>mdhome says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Anyone who gets the insurance company to pay for what they agreed to at the time of selling the policy is indeed an extremely lucky person.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>mdhome</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 07:01:13 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>grindermonkey says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[To the extent that the decedent owners of the "earth", presumably non-meek, have the foresight to reassign their property rights at the time of their death, this famous quote has some basis in reality and underscores the transitive nature of ownership aligning it more with hubris than meekness. Corporate personhood of course defeats this entirely.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>grindermonkey</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 06:23:22 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Glen says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[wfalco, this is the argument I used for a couple of decades, but came to realize that democrats carry out some fairly heinous crimes while presenting a program or two for citizens, encouraging citizens to continue supporting them. The healthcare bill has served to further divide this country and create triple the squabbling, diverting citizen attention away from domestic drones, trade agreements, attacking countries, increased surveillance, and on and on. Democrats differ from republicans only in style.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Glen</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 05:11:57 -0800</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dr. Paul just woke up from his mid-campaign nap.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Howard T. Lewis III</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 20:54:56 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>wfalco says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Sure- Obama has "broken broken promises." But he has at leat attempted to pass some legislation that is intended to help the middle and working classes. He has passed a helath care bill that, although far from perfect, again addresses the needs of many in the 99% demographic. I believe he can and will do what is permitted to do. So many here want and expect a heroic progressive to lead us to our vision of societal utupia. But so many have their heads in the clouds. We reside in a country where a sizeable majority is apolitical and duped to believe many things that right wing media throws at them. And rememeber,like Crazy Horse, Obama may be facing sone of those same bayonets. His are only invisible.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>wfalco</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:49:18 -0800</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Good words. The enslavers tried and still try to box us in to insanity and confusion-promo ting squares with sharp corners and no recourse but the great circle of life is forever, smooth, seamless and unconquerable. And WE called THEM "Barbarians" and "Savages"!!! MetakuyeOyasin ("All my relations" or, "We are all connected"-Lako ta or 'Human beings" language). Or as we tend to mutter, "Amen".]]></description>
			<dc:creator>reiverpacific</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:49:22 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>John Locke says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Michael_K: LOve your comment!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>John Locke</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:48:44 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>tomo says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Good for you, dickmail. It would greatly help if we could begin thinking of Chief Joseph, and Red Cloud, and Sitting Bull as Great Americans. They were willing to give their lives that America might indeed be the land of the free and the home of the brave.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>tomo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:22:44 -0800</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[I don't blame you, Vonney, for not thinking Obama is a liar. He is much better at it that his opponents.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>tomo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:13:26 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Mrcead says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Go live on a deserted island. Show us how it's supposed to be done. You can't get more self reliant than that or were you merely making an empty gesture? There's a reason why developing countries are still developing despite advances in medicine, education and technology. That's your homework, to figure out why.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Mrcead</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:51:55 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>thirteenthpaladin says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[@ Robert Eagle Your forethought and later care for your wife are commendable, but (and this next bit references provision made, and is not meant in any way to gloss over the suffering and loss of your wife) surely you can see that a certain amount of good fortune also played a part. What of the woman without a partner/family, who loses all personal savings, employment and insurance due to and midway through a serious illness? What of the marriage where both partners fall catastrophicall y ill, employment and insurance lost long before illness is resolved or death comes? What of those who suffer multiple misfortunes at once, or serial misfortunes without time to recover? I suspect you might find the Amish admirable in their steadfast, prudent, and hardworking ways; the Amish model includes community support for those who suffer misfortune, even misfortune begot wholly or in part by poor judgement and/or error, because, after all, we are all only human, and as such, flawed (sinners, if you prefer) In secular society, what is government but the representative of the aggregate values, will, duties and commitment(s) of the community, as well as the means to make those manifest? Government isn't "outside over there," it is a tool in the hands of the community, accomplishing the work of the community. We are all in this together; that inescapable truth is neither burden nor curse, but gift and blessing.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>thirteenthpaladin</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 14:02:51 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>futhark says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Robt Eagle, it's clear to me that your insurance was not cancelled due to non-payment of premium because your Alzheimer's afflicted spouse mislaid the premium notice and you didn't find out about it until 2 months into your 4 month stay in the hospital for cancer therapy, as happened to me. Compassion is usually considered a virtue, but I see little compassion in the dog-eat-dog scenario you seem to be promoting.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>futhark</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 13:26:48 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>thirteenthpaladin says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Actually Robert Eagle, it turns out that, no, in the animal world it is not a simple matter of "survival of the fittest," and if I might, I'd like to suggest you visit the work of ethologist and primatologist Frans de Waal: Moral Behaviour in Animals, TED talk http://www.ted.com/talks/frans_de_waal_do_animals_have_morals.html Book The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society http://www.amazon.com/The-Age-Empathy-Natures-Lessons/dp/0307407772/ref=la_B000APOHE0_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1341261586&sr=1-1 Interview: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1925566,00.html Quotes “If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, … a sense of fairness, and the other one is empathy and compassion.” “Humanity is actually much more cooperative and empathic than [it's] given credit for.” “There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors.” and "The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures." Enjoy!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>thirteenthpaladin</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 12:51:37 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>thirteenthpaladin says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Traditional Hopi message, 4 pm pacific time today http://traditionalhopi.org/ WATER "Stop the buying and selling of life through water; stop US Senate Bill 2109. We the Hopi are Caretakers of the Earth, of humanity, of all life ... Without water, we all cease to exist. Buying and selling water, is buying and selling life. This is not a part of the natural balance ... we must join together to stop the destructive path we are ... on and protect life itself." ... “We have a lot at stake,” [Ben] Nuvamsa, a member of the Bear Clan from Shungopavi Village, said while showing a slide of an unidentified sacred spring that had dried up. “That is sad. It made me cry because that particular ceremony depended on that spring being full, and it was not.” Without water from the spring, the ceremony could not be held, he said. “It’s all part of the problems we’re facing with Peabody’s over-pumping. We have ceremonies where we go out and we pay homage to our springs and shrines, and we use that water for medicine, our prayers. That’s why those things are really important,” he said. In exchange for waiving “past, present and future claims for injury to water rights and injury to water quality arising from time immemorial and, thereafter, forever …” up to $133 million would be allocated for one Hopi groundwater project." Pass it on.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>thirteenthpaladin</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 12:19:43 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>BeaDeeBunker says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Robt Eagle, you're being sarcastic, aren't you. You can't really believe what you say; you're being an 'agent provocateur,' right? Let me quote from your comment and see if it meets the basic tenets of logical thinking: "If the poor know they are getting nothing from government then guess what?...they won't be poor because they will HAVE TO work to survive." Why do you not apply that same thinking to the 'other side.' How's this as a revision of your quote: "If the rich know they are getting no bailouts from government (the people) then guess what?...they won't be rich because they will HAVE TO work within the rules of the game in order to survive the vicissitudes of the Great Casino of America, also known as Wall Street." Betting with money other than your own is a no brainer as a gamble. Betting with your own cash makes one a lot more cautious; a lot more risk adverse. And most troubling to me is what your comments seem to imply. Your thinking would consider a 'poor' man, earning minimum wage as a dishwasher, dropping and breaking dishes and getting fired as a correct action. But, if a 'rich' man earning millions as a Wall Street broker, loses the firm billions of dollars, doesn't get fired, but instead gets a bonus, and that too is considered a correct action. In what just world is this considered fair and just?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>BeaDeeBunker</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 12:12:19 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Smiley says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Good grief! I can't believe the naivete of what you are saying. Have you ever lived in the REAL world?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Smiley</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 12:11:24 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Smiley says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Anyone who votes for Obama or Romney is the problem.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Smiley</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 12:02:06 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Michael_K says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The myth of the "free market" that will "regulate itself" isn't really very desirable for capitalists, since in a government-free environment, a "free market" would exact penalties from crooked bankers of CEOs, such as being shot in the face by their victims... no, we have no free markets, since the criminals are being well protected.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Michael_K</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:49:37 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Michael_K says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[not true... we have alternatives, even though there are plenty of knaves to holler that no party other than the two main criminal gangs can ever win. which is mathematically absurd, on its face.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Michael_K</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:46:51 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Michael_K says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Actually, I'm beginning to think "Mittens" migfht be the "lesser evil"... but why trust a Rethuglican, when you can vote for Jill Stein.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Michael_K</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:45:11 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Michael_K says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ This is what bothers me the most about the readership and comments here.. the very same people who rightly and loudly condemned the exact same crimes when committed by Rethuglicans, will do backwards somersaults to excuse them when they are committed by Obama. Vote for Jill Stein!!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Michael_K</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:43:51 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Michael_K says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ What is it about that quote that "sickened you"? Perhaps the realisation of your own naivete and slavish cleaving to a party that laughs at you while it exploits you and your vote?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Michael_K</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:41:27 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Robt Eagle says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[As far as the disabled...when my wife became sick with breast cancer I did not go to the government for help, I had previously bought life and health insurance and when she died the insurance paid exactly what they were supposed to by contract law. Get rid of "freebies to ALL", no entitlements and then everyone will take responsibilty for their actions and inactions. Take care of your own family. Treat others as you would want to be treated, but keep the failure of government out of our lives!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Robt Eagle</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:18:05 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Robt Eagle says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[CUT ALL ENTITLEMENTS, no individual or corporation of small business, or large business gets anything from the government. Sure we need teachers, police, firefighters, sanitation, military, infrastructure, etc., but giving to those who are dragging the rest of society down due to their bad choices is insane. Why support a drug addict? Why give money to an alcoholic, gang member, illegal alien, children of illegal aliens? They learn to take and never give to society...sure there are individual cases, but for the most part giving anything to people for free because they show up, or fill out some form leads to more and more taking and no giving. In the animal world, and we are animals (homo sapien) it is survival of the fittest. I have some friends who came from very poor circumstances and bad homes, just like me, and we all thrived...and not at the expense of others. We did good things for society and still do. We pay our taxes and expect others to do the same, not live off of what we pay in.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Robt Eagle</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:17:22 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>cordleycoit says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[One can be glad when people like Hedges discovers the sham democracy as practiced by the United States toward native peoples.Most people following the disastrous main stream course to it's inevitable collapse will sicken and die because they have to this day no roots in this place. Extractive thinking leads to total imbalance in dealing with the problems of feeding so many people extractive farming or mining the land has lead to crops without food value, livestock with wasting diseases and cancers in most everyone's future. Capitalism has failed us and now the land is turning against us. Think, can one eat: gold, silver, each other and petroleum.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>cordleycoit</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:10:08 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>zachwes says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[And what of those to sick or disabled to work? Would you have them simply die because they don't have the money? I'm also curious how you define "entitlements" -- are tax breaks for the rich entitlements? Are subsidies to billion dollar corporations entitlements? Or is it only so if the recipient is not wealthy?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>zachwes</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:56:15 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>zachwes says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Is this the meaning of the meek will inherit the earth?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>zachwes</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:53:26 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>noitall says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It should be familiar because many of these "socially corruptive barbarians have been self-perpetuati ng and corrupting society for many generations and become stronger with each one. They work from a LONG-term plan, consuming the neo-rich-social ly corruptive barbarians just as they consume the lives of the classes lover than themselves AND more natural resources as improved technology allows. They are like an insect ever-building their protective fortress with their need to grow and consume and eliminate all threats to their empire beyond their lifetime and into the next of their generation. Look at the history of the richest families (and most destructive) in this country. Millions of underlings have died to fulfill their long-range plan and all they have to do is perpetuate the fairytale. At some point, all tales end.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>noitall</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:40:22 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>John Locke says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[dickmail This is another time when I wish I could give you multiple thumbs up]]></description>
			<dc:creator>John Locke</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:36:44 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>John Locke says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Vonney: Excuse me Vonney but if you drink the kool aid don't expect us all to do so...Obama has lied to us continually beginning with the Change we can believe in!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>John Locke</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:31:30 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>noitall says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The poor ARE working to survive. They may not have a "job" but they are earning a living of sorts by unification of their immediate community, trading and bartering. This 'unification' then becomes a threat to those like you who wish to perpetuate the current paridigm by cutting regulation, etc. Its like giving a sinking swimmer a pocket full of change so he can buy a life vest. Unlike the thinking of your ilk, those that you see as your inferiors need self-respect too and who can feel good about himself when he is not self-reliant to care for his family. Consuming the necessities of the future only guarantees a continuation of this suffering into the future. You do not want to push this "HAVE TO" survive scenario because YOU will become a "natural resource".]]></description>
			<dc:creator>noitall</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:28:35 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Peace Anonymous says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The question consistently asked by writers such as Hedges is, "Can we continue as we have?" I ask, "Are we capable of change?" The government has no vested interest in creating a peaceful, equitable, and democratic society. There are solutions but they call for us, the people, to examine our world and the path that has led us to this place and to clearly see how the "system" functions. Who gets the wealth and who pays the bills. Can we continue down this path?? It is up to you to decide, no politician is about to kill the goose that laid the golden egg. And you my friends are that goose.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Peace Anonymous</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:14:38 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>LegendBert says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The corporate attitude towards the oppressed is "let them eat cake". That may give you some idea where this is going.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>LegendBert</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:51:33 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Mrcead says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[[continued] Every generation, there are socially corruptive barbarians born into it. They hoard all of the resources including the human kind and hold back the progression of mankind at the pace of their own lives - then want to be worshiped for granting the opportunity for us to exist at subsistence levels. If they cannot compete or reign supreme, they destroy instead. They'll only invest into society if a maximum return is to be realised. Imagine where we would be if it were not for the barbarians. No destruction of the Arab intellectual body. No fall of Rome. Instead we get the sodding Dark Ages courtesy of the hometown and foreign barbarians attacking on two fronts. Does this somehow seem familiar to anyone?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Mrcead</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:27:59 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>noitall says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[You speak the truth. Those found on this continent were one with the Earth for thousands of years. They were in tune and one with their world and possessed 'whole vision' and could see forever. Those People still exist. Still today, (for those that don't understand the accuracy of the oral tradition), we can see those skills (for lack of a better term) in individuals in Native communities. Savant-level abilities to remember with dead accuracy and detail, complex events, understandings, agreements, etc. People who can remember thousands of Indian names and relations of people and places for example. There is 'magic' in Nature and it is only 'magic' because this absense of true cuture has left the people numb. One needs no other gods when wrapped in the arms of Mother Nature. One then understands the circle and prioritizes caring for and respecting the Earth and ALL of its constituents. It is simple as is Nature, but it is miraculous. Respect ALL life, in some miraculous way, your's depends on it.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>noitall</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:27:56 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Mrcead says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA["What is this penchant for self-delusion that makes us unable to see that we are being sold into bondage? Why do we trust those who do not deserve our trust? Why are we repeatedly seduced?" A peaceful life where we trust others is only bizarre to people who think pillaging, stealing, subjugation and looking out for #1 are necessary evils and accept them as "reality." The majority of people on this planet wish to exist in peace. It is the restless, talentless few who take it upon themselves to disrupt our precious order and dominate us. No one stands in their way because what decent thinking person could possibly conceive of such subversive actions let alone devise ways to stop them in their tracks? They are infinite in concept, conceit and application. [continued]]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Mrcead</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:27:19 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>noitall says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Pot and kettle. They're ALL liars and they're lying to US (spelled us or U.S.) and all for a minute minority of greedy rich. This country was stolen by promises and now is being stolen by beads and trinkets (spelled mere millions) accepted by the greed and treachery of our "leaders". You can count the true patriots in our government on the number of digets that a human body has (and that's generous).]]></description>
			<dc:creator>noitall</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:12:30 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>noitall says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Your words speak volumns to the level that our "Democracy" has deteriorated. We have the choice between two evils with nobody representing the interests of the vast majority in this country (other than through lies and rhetoric). Favors go to the rich for political favors at the expense of fairness and justice for the People, whose quality of life and promise for a better future erodes slowly enough to hold off OUTRAGE for most (distracted by reality shows, sports, feel-good "news", and out-right lies and manipulation). I'm not "crazy" just not distracted.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>noitall</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:07:10 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>universeunit says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[VENGEANCE, chris hedges?? seriously? we should nobly die fighting against WHOM exactly (your last few lines sound a little bit pro-suicide bomber-y, don't cha think?). your premise - that we are victims of the white man, just like the native americans, is twisted on so many levels. on the contrary, we are COMPLICIT - if we fly on airplanes, drive SUV's, have 401K's that unbeknownst to us support halliburton and BP, if we consume the products pedaled to us by the evil greedy forces then the best way to FIGHT the systems we abhor is to educate ourselves, to refuse to consume, refuse to participate, to STARVE THE BEASTS. instead you pedal this counterproducti ve dross to your devoted readership? you offer not a single solution except to die as martyrs? you are a sick man, chris hedges - and worse than that, i'm beginning to suspect that you are a troll.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>universeunit</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:05:22 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Robt Eagle says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hedges is out of touch with the here and now! The world economic situation is fragile at best and worrying about natural resources to save the planet falls on deaf ears as those in dire financial situations grasp at anything that might produce money to eat, house and clothe themselves and their families. Blame is a great piece of BS. Fixing the train wreck by voting Obama out of the White House will be a start. Eliminating ALL entitlements over a 25 year period would go a long way to fixing this lunacy of taking from the rich to care for the poor mentality. If the poor know they are getting nothing from government then guess what?...they won't be poor because they will HAVE TO work to survive. If not, well then society will not be able to take care of the poor anyhow as everyone will be bankrupt under Emperor Obama if he is re-elected. Obama MUST be voted out of the White House for America to survive!!!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Robt Eagle</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 08:59:33 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>dickmail says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[We are facing the biggest battle of our history. Crazy horse should be an inspiration to all of us. We are being crushed by fascism and the Crazy Horse legacy represents one true American general that can lead us to victory. No other man represents what we need to be; never stop fighting and certainly never acquiesce to enslavement. It's time to organize and rid ourselves of AIPAC, Insurance, big pharma, banks, and other entities that have enslaved us.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>dickmail</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 08:57:44 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>dick says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Wait! The heady NYTimes just told US we have to cooperate with the GLOBAL CORPS agenda, which is our subordination. Such balls. We could AT LEAST endeavor to when possible boycott EXXON, BP, SHELL, B of A, CITI, Chase, Walmart, worst Pharmas, & politicians who protect them from prosecution, like Obama. Let a flawed, corporate drawn, healthcare insurance plan be his 1 term legacy. Support Senate Dems; block Romnee-Nikki Haley agenda.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>dick</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 08:52:00 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>reiverpacific says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Many times Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, Chief Joseph and many few tribal elders predicted that the "Wasichus" ("The other people" and not just whites but predominantly so -invaders) would destroy themselves and they would wait to some day reclaim and heal the mother (Earth). So they knew what we were all about right away, with our slash-and-burn, divide and conquer and ruthless, over-profiteeri ng greed. So much damage has been visited on the planet in the process but the planet WILL survive and the wiser of us might be well-advised to ally ourselves with the wisdom and example of the native elders -and not just in the Americas but other continents -those which have not been totally turned into brutally capitalist, toxic regimes beyond repair and utterly corrupted by adopting the example of their colonial exploiters (Sadly, much of Africa, the Middle East and India). But they are still there, those who are just waiting for the planet to cleanse itself of the cancerous plague that the hubristic enslavers that we and our dominant Euro-American culture of rapaciousness represent. Remember Ghandi's response to the question on what he thought of Western Civilization: "I think it would be a good idea"! Too late???]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 08:48:32 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>bluepilgrim says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[*Karl Marx was correct when he called unregulated capitalism “a machine for demolishing limits.”* There is no such thing as unregulated capitalism: at best it is temporarily regulated, since the goal of capitalism is to acquire as much welath as possible, which means also gaining as much power as possible and unding any regulations in place. And that's what always happens -- that's what happened since the last round of regulations in the 1930s (Glass-Steagall , for instance). To allow any regulations to stand is to fail in mandated legally fiduciary responsiility of the capitalist, as well as the prime directive. Capitalist's prime directive is the same as the Ferengi's or Romulans: own and control everything, everywhere. Eat the entire universe.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>bluepilgrim</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 08:38:43 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Doctoretty says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Lied to by Barack Obama? You ARE already crazy! He is our only hope this election year. If we put Mittens in their, we will be governed by lies!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Doctoretty</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 08:37:49 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>noitall says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Broken promises? Now you too, can re-live the days of 150 years ago. Feel the anger, disappointment, fury, helplessness of broken promises, manipulation, insecurity, culture change, enslavement, disrespect. "The white men “made us many promises, more than I can remember,” Chief Red Cloud said in old age, “but they kept but one. They promised to take our land, and they took it.”". Change "white men" to politicians; "our land" to jobs, natural resources, peace and serenity; this is the future, through our trust (and lack of interest) that we leave our grandchildren: a second-rate-cla ss-based country void of true democracy. If you TRUST REAL HARD, maybe they'll give it back.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>noitall</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 08:12:53 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Vonney says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Speaking of eloquent essays I was in total agreement with you regarding our governments' history of treating Native Americans unfairly. Then you threw in that nasty aside "How many more times do you want to be lied to by Barack Obama?", and I was sickened by your entire rant. Obviously, you don't watch politics closely, or you would see clearly his opponents across the aisle are the liars.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Vonney</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 08:08:22 -0800</pubDate>
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