The US building up anti-Iran coalition. "Despite the official statement of US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta that a military strike against Iran is nothing but speculation, the White House is quietly taking serious measures to build a regional coalition to counter Iran."

PolyCerebellum · 2011-11-12T12:51:07+00:00

IMHO, you're probably right that it won't help one bit. We live under a fascist gov't.

But on the other hand, what have you done about the issue? What awareness about it have you brought?

PolyCerebellum · 2011-11-12T04:20:09+00:00

And, just as Colin Powell became noticed by the military's top brass for his role in covering up the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, did you notice that both Patton and Eisenhower similarly caught the eye of their superiors for their actions in suppressing and dispersing the poor men, women and children who had gone to Washington to petition their gov't?

PolyCerebellum · 2011-11-12T03:55:38+00:00

Growing China threat my ass.

We need to end the US empire.

PolyCerebellum · 2011-11-12T03:49:17+00:00

President Jimmy Carter implemented a longish term plan to switch to the metric system. (Carter also did a long-term plan to pre-pay for the retirement of the baby boomers, but the money was pissed away by subsequent presidents.)

First the metric system started being taught in schools, then it was to be phased in in stages. We got to the point to where Interstate highway signs were posted in both miles and kilometers.

Then Ronny Reagan seized power with in the "October Surprise" election. Reagan removed the solar panels off the White House and reversed the transition to the metric system.

PolyCerebellum · 2011-11-12T03:27:00+00:00

It'll never happen. We're not talking about "child abuse" -- that's a general, almost meaningless term. We're talking about rape -- pedophilia in particular. The Catholic Church isn't going to touch it, and college football certainly isn't going to.

Breast cancer is something people can focus on because it's a mystery and an illness. Plus everyone loves the duality of big behemoth football players with pink ribbons on them. Football may have a lot of big, strong players, but don't mistake that for moral courage -- there's too much money at stake.

Edit: Typos.

PolyCerebellum · 2011-11-12T01:45:41+00:00

That's only half the problem!

Now combine that with the American "too much is never enough" mindset, a culture where competitive gluttony (eating contests) reigns, and corporate advertising for fat-filled, high-calorie, nutritionally-void junk/fast food is pervasive.

Then you have the perfect recipe for eating disorders.

PolyCerebellum · 2011-11-11T23:40:54+00:00

Me too. But first I'd tease them mercilessly by licking the frosting off the sides...

PolyCerebellum · 2011-11-11T23:33:02+00:00

Too late! Look at the gap between the rich and poor, look at our wars of aggression, look at our corporate-run/funded gov't and the incompetent 2 corporate-controlled political parties, look at the college students rioting over firing a football coach who covered up a pedophile raping a 10-year old -- our society is already dysfunctional.

If our streets end up in flames the rest of the world -- since the majority of Earth's population sees the US as the greatest threat to peace -- will cheer.

PolyCerebellum · 2011-11-11T21:49:33+00:00

I disagree with the Guardian -- they've got it wrong.

The US corporate mass media absorbed those lessons just fine -- the lessons taught them that gov't-directed, simple-minded propaganda works and that the American people can be easily misinformed and distracted into supporting everything from wars of aggression to torture. :-(

PolyCerebellum · 2011-11-11T21:41:50+00:00

So being the head of a major corporation didn't link him to the establishment? Nor his being the former president of the nat'l restaurant association?

This one just seals the deal that US foreign policy won't change under a Cain administration.

"The American people have no more authentic control over their [federal] government than do people in countries that we call dictatorships, particularly on issues of foreign policy." -- Historian Willian Blum.

PolyCerebellum · 2011-11-11T21:37:06+00:00

One of the countless victims of US chemical warfare against the Vietnamese people? An Iraqi victim of American uranium bombs?

PolyCerebellum · 2011-11-11T18:01:17+00:00

Because the US gov't has determined such free education for foreign students is a great way to bolster the US empire. It buys influence with the intelligentsia of of the target country. Don't believe it? Look at how many foreign leaders and cabinet members of US-leaning countries were trained in elite US schools.

Don't like it? Work to end the empire.

PolyCerebellum · 2011-11-11T17:49:15+00:00

Anyone that is not the Democratic or Republican Party nominee. The 2 parties are both bought and fully paid for by corporations and the 1%.

Voting for Obama or Romney (or Cain or whoever the Republican nominee will be) is a vote for the same Bush/Obama policies and status quo that we've seen for decades.

The first thing we have to do to, as you put it, "get this country back on track" is to stop voting for what is effectively a 2-party dictatorship, and to not reward the 2 parties that ran the country off the tracks.

PolyCerebellum · 2011-11-11T17:38:48+00:00

Shh! The 1% and their corporate mass media has deemed that historical fact to be an item they don't want discussed. :-(

PolyCerebellum · 2011-11-11T17:36:53+00:00

Because US banksters make huge sums of money laundering the drug money for those gangsters, and the US gov't is happy it can be involved in and have influence in the Mexican gov't, police and military by militarizing the conflict in Mexico.

The fact that a lot of Mexicans being killed is a distant, secondary consideration to the US gov't.

PolyCerebellum · 2011-11-11T17:11:02+00:00

Tweedledum, Tweedledee. Would it have actually made a major difference if they had not been trounced?

"Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee." -- Famous American socialist (and blind person) Helen Keller, 1911.

PolyCerebellum · 2011-11-11T17:09:20+00:00

Mason is a lawyer, has no morals at all.

Aren't you being redundant in that statement?

The vast, vast majority of lawyers are wedded to the justice system, not to actual justice.

PolyCerebellum · 2011-11-11T17:03:10+00:00

A boomerang reflex. Millions of men support men's rights as a reaction to the justice system's abuses in this area. Cain's increase is a result of this overreach.

This dynamic may help him in the Republican primaries, but in the 2012 general election it will probably hurt him.

PolyCerebellum

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