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Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten. Cree Nation Tribal Prophecy
Rosebud Diner, Somerville, MA (photo: Coeli)
Slow news day outside of the horse race.
- “Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has said he will not accept outside conditions over a possible bailout.”
- “BP has agreed to sell some of its Gulf of Mexico oil fields for $5.6bn as it builds up cash reserves ahead of potentially huge fines for 2010′s Deepwater Horizon disaster.”
- “The defeated candidate in Mexico’s presidential election, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has announced he is leaving his left-wing coalition to form a new political youth movement.”
- Truthout: Do America’s Corporations Care How Much American Workers Earn?
- “Social protests in the West Bank have been escalating in line with the costs of living. Thousands of people marched in the streets demanding lower prices for fuel and food.” (video, 25 min)
- Mother Jones: GOP Rep. Appears on White Nationalist Radio Show
- Truthout: Four Reasons Chicago’s Teachers Are On Strike
- Economic Update: “Updates on Spain’s government vs radical unions’ responses to crisis, who gains most from expanding money supply, temp and low-paid replace middle level jobs, US dominates global arms sales. Analyses of who pays federal taxes and basic differences between capitalist enterprises and workers’ self-directed enterprises.”
The truth will set you free but first it will piss you off.
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Mornin’, pups
Thanks, SD, and seeing at Reuters, it seems like PM Merkel wants U.S. to do the austerity rag, but is being warned that’s disaster here like in Spain and Greece;
‘The Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has warned against a sharp fiscal retrenchment in the United States, saying this could derail the fragile recover there.
Unless politicians agree on a plan, a wave of U.S. spending cuts and tax hikes – dubbed the “fiscal cliff” – are set to take effect in January, within months of the November 6 election.’
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/11/us-germany-usa-debt-idUSBRE88A0F020120911?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=71&google_editors_picks=true
Gonna be interesting to see what path the Regressives take in Congress now that they’re back to handle this problem.
Like before, expect the Prez to keep them from ripping the place to shreds.
We’ll see.
Mitt and Mini-Mitt came out in support of Rahm’s position on the Chicago teachers strike. Obama’s plans for “education reform” are turning out quite nicely.
1) Good for Spain, but i wonder if this is just a negociating ploy. Awful lot of poker (and fizzbin) being played in Europe these days.
2) Bottom line BP: hey, it’s only money. nobody we care about is going to jail.
3) Can’t tell if it really was a rigged election in Mexico or just sour grapes. Best of luck to him, in any case.
4) A Palistinian spring will never happen. It would be just like Saudi Arabia or Bahrain. Israel will crush it, America will ignore it and very few papers will write about it.
5) Ya know, when I was a kid, appearing on a show like that, even for a GOPer, would be the kiss of death. Heck, it probably HELPED this clown with his voters.
Boxturtle (Who needs an alarm clock when you have a 130lb dog capable of jumping on a bed?)
LOL
Yes. The lower, the better.
Morning firepups. Thanks for the post and host SD.
I saw a survey yesterday that said 2% of people polled nationally thought Mitt’s real name was Mittens, and 2% thought it was Gromit. I couldn’t help but think that 4% of responders were people like us just having fun with the pollsters :)
Hopefully, it’ll be gridlock. The GOPers must service their crazies. The last thing we want is a “Grand Bargain”.
I think their primary plan will be Drill, baby, drill and anyone who tries to stop them will be blamed for every gasoline increase.
You can’t block that pipeline, America NEEDS energy.
You can’t regulate that, the company won’t be able to operate.
You can’t tax that, you’ll just raise prices.
Boxturtle (With intermissions of Scary Brown Mexicans)
I sure don’t expect that. I expect the prez will go down and shred some with them and try to make a grand bargain.
I’d like to be wrong.
Boxturtle (I can’t be the only one who thinks Keystone will be approved right after the election)
Eons ago my family had a cat the we put in the basement at night. There was also a piano down there, and if whomever played it last forgot to close the keyboard lid, our alarm clock would go off around 4:30 a.m. She was quite deliberate, walking on the keys from one end to the other, hopping off, and then if nobody came to let her out and feed her, another waltz from one end to the other. It was so funny we couldn’t be angry at her.
Good morning everyone. I think I should wear a red shirt today in support of the teachers’ strike.
And I still haven’t seen any substansive comment from Obama on that strike.
And it won’t shock me if we don’t. I think he’s firmly on Rahm’s side.
Boxturtle (Chicago would be better served by eliminating the Mayors position and using the money for teachers)
I have a hard time thinking that Rahm is doing this without some direction from his boss. I’m not normally a conspiracy theory guy, but this feels like a trial run. Testing the waters for a national union busting plan.
Awww, the Rosebud Diner in Davis Square! Lived a 5 minute walk away from there for 10 years and relocated to another state a couple years ago. Thanks for the cheer-up :)
Careful! The Red Shirts are always the first to go.
Boxturtle (Star trek fan)
Think Rahm Emanuel and Arne Duncan.
Was the food any good?
After they opened the convention in a right-to-work state, in a stadium named after a bank, with an anti-teacher film, and then kept their union supporters firmly off camera, you’d be foolish not to suspect something.
Boxturtle (But I’m sure it’s just eleventy dimensional chess)
Guess many Americans are “ignorant” of the set of circumstances which lead to the US founding.
Colonists being rape by corporations which has a King’s army to do the bidding of corporations….
Jefferson is correct America has been raped by the very corporate animal, which we severed our ties from. SO much for life and liberty when dictated by corporate fascists more concerned with protecting profit than protecting life. Protect that corporate interest US Congress as Congress protected slavery… Corporate rapist, not raiders….
Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.
US KIA Afghanistan: 2,114
Afghan, Iraki, Yemeni and Pakistani casualties: estimates vary to over 2M
US MBS 2012: 31,496 and counting
No war but class war
Morning Dew
Be good to yourselves, and all other living things
Namaste
Never. Give. Up.
We do not have to speculate where the GOP ticket stands on the Chicago strike. Here is a quote from Paul Ryan.
Gotta enjoy listening to Rmoney’s pretzel of obama/rmoneycare now, from On Day One we’re to Okay, it’s working so we adopt the redheaded stepchild I fostered for votes in MA. Can’t wait to have the anti-democracy party claim they fathered it after all.
Off to N.TX. now, just getting ready for the trip to Pittsburgh, in the early morning tomorrow I’ll be hopping the plane to N.TX., where frypanning has just ended. Sad to go.
for all those who ridiculed the LIHOPs
NYT: Bush 9/11 warning negligence far graver than disclosed
Press TV – 3 hours ago
A few weeks before 9/11 attacks, former President Gorge W. Bush received a top secret document saying that an attack from al-Qaeda on U.S. soil was imminent, however the president chose to neglect the warning, according to The New York Times. On Aug.
Sadlyyesignorantassholesinpositionsofpowerhaveruinedamerica !
I remember so well, the Bush V. Gore race, when many Lefties saw them as essentially the same and chose not to vote, or voted 3rd party…
Namaste SD !
Man, you said it, Petro.
I hope your words are heard.
I also remember how so many voted in 2006 and 2008 for Democrats, hoping they would realize that the problem could be addressed by effective intelligence and police work, and we didn’t need a national security/surveillance state, financially and morally bankrupting the country with endless war, and prosecuting truth-tellers and whistleblowers.
demi !
It’s not just about voting and hoping, but about real action at the local level. If it’s one thing we can learn from the Teabaggers, it’s that actions bring results.
And just voting twice was supposed to reverse all socio-economic ills ? How many years of perseverance brought nationhood or abolition of slavery or civil rights to where it is now ?
I’m not attacking my friends on the Left, I’m just saying that we have to stay united and keep pushing until our goals are met, not give up after 1, 2 or even 3 election cycles …
Yes, that’s the battle cry. Develop progressive leaders at the local levels so that in the future we have viable and authentic candidates for higher offices.
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Ah misses your kisses … LOL !
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I’m not attacking anyone either. I don’t even dispute the possibility that imaginary President Gore may have handled the warnings differently.
But if Republicans had won in 2006 and 2008, and imaginary President McCain had followed the three policies I mentioned as far as security state/war/whistleblowers, many of us* would be saying that imaginary President Obama would have done things differently.
The question is just whether voting for people who have made it absolutely clear that they will not act in a way you want them to act, on issues that are most important to you, is an effective strategy for change.
* By “many of us”, I don’t mean those who were smart enough to be skeptical of Obama’s “progressive” or ”populist” or even “anti-war” credentials. But 65 million people voted for him. They weren’t all delusional Obots. Most were just people hoping for a turn in another direction on all three of these issues, all of which are largely within the control of the President, not Congress (unless they declare war), and thinking he had said he would be different.
Well, before I get banned for inappropriate politics at the Diner, let me grab my coffee and be quiet. I’m sure this discussion will continue elsewhere on FDL and among friends.
Not to worry. You’re spot on.
Thanks!
I don’t think there are “inappropriate” politics, here. I agree with you.
Hello friends, just peeking in again before lunchtime errands.
Hey Petro, nice to see you here!
What I like to stay away from is the horse race bullshit. Waste of time imo.
The systems we live under, economic and political, have turned to shit. Politicians aren’t going to change that, they’re in the pockets of the corporations driving the bus. We have to change both systems, from the bottom up. Top down change isn’t a part of reality.
I’m an anti-capitalist, a Marxist, and that doesn’t mean socialist, communist or anarchist. Anybody who hasn’t figured that out by now hasn’t been paying attention.
Exactly … change happens from the ground up !
A vote is simply a vote, continued action and resolve is what brings change.
Breakfast was excellent!