Election Wealth = Corruption

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Friday August 26, 2011 · 6:47 PM PDT

2011/08/26 · 18:47

Rachel Maddow talked about this tonight. We can't out money the corporations. We need to create a campaign strategy that makes excessive spending a recognizable negative in the minds of voters. This is a request for a brain storm on how this can happen. think martial arts using opponents strength against them. ideas please.

ww II babies & other war babies

ainwa

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Monday August 08, 2011 · 7:00 AM PDT

2011/08/08 · 07:00

I was born in 1943. My father and his brother, all the men in our family, were in the Second World War. My uncle was badly wounded and was held in British hospitals for a year after the war ended. My father was missing in the Pacific for some time. I have no conscious memories of these years.

I have been antiwar and progressive since i was 19. Recently I was speaking with a woman from South Africa. She said her mother was always talking about peace and anti war. And that it sometimes turned off her friends and family. I mentioned my World War II origins and she said her mother was born during the civil war in Zambia. Could it be that she and I are drawn to peace activism as a response to the early horror of war on our lives?

I am wondering, and asking the question, how many here are Daily Kos were born into familes immediately affected by war?

reversing direction on a narrow mountain road

ainwa

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Sunday November 21, 2010 · 4:19 PM PST

2010/11/21 · 16:19

this is short... just sharing a perception. Yesterday I had the experience of twice having to reverse direction on a narrow dirt road with sharp dropoff on one side. The first time I did it, i was focused on the task, but when i had to do it again a few minutes later I was conscious of the process in a different way.

It hit me that I had completely reversed directions without going outside of the boudaries, by just going forward a bit, turning the wheel and reversing a bit. There was never a sweeping correction; it just took repetitive times of going backward and forward in a consistently correcting direction.

i have often believed that observable phenomena is useful because it gives us pictures of how things work. I felt like i saw Obama's task from a different perspective. I am passing it on. I have a strong desire to believe in President Obama; I am almost 67 and am tired of feeling cynical all the time. His daughters are the ages of my grandchildren. Surely their future is as important to him as the future of my beloved grandchildren is the me. and so i want to believe.

we need to make the visible effects of huge funding work against candidates.

ainwa

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Saturday July 31, 2010 · 9:59 AM PDT

2010/07/31 · 09:59

We need a way to use the big money spent on campaigns to trigger a negative response in the minds of voters. We need people, when they see an ad repeatedly, to think,

"Wow, someone is sure spending a lot of money to get this guy elected. What are they buying? Is this politician already bought and paid for?"

I have been thinking about this for a long time, and then today, at lunch, a co worker came into the lunch room and began talking about all the signs around town for the upcoming election. Please follow me below the fold to see what she said.

ainwa

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Friday December 28, 2007 · 8:19 PM PST

2007/12/28 · 20:19

of your home's equity now and never make another house payment while you live in the home. Loans are set based on value of home and age of borrower. The homeowners get their equity to spend today and don't make any more mortgage payments as long as one of the homeowners still lives in the house. At the time the final homeowner ceases living in the home it is sold and the proceeds used to clear the loan. This concept is marketed with tables showing an increase in home values which seems to offset the rising value of the loan. But there is a catch here. It isn't the homeowner who will make good the loan if the value of their home diminishes, it is the taxpayer through the FHA loan insurance attatched to Reverse Mortgates.

* If borrower lives longer than expected, and loan costs exceed the value of the house, the Federal Housing Administration covers any lender losses, not the estate or the heirs.

Source: AARP, National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association, mortgage industry

Am I overly suspicious, or does this look like a safe way to make loans in a falling real estate market at the taxpayer expence. Neither the lender or the borrower bear any liability if the house looses value as the taxpayer will bail out both.

the ruthlessness factor

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Monday July 10, 2006 · 2:34 PM PDT

2006/07/10 · 14:34

Sadly, because of how power is acquired in our world, we have created a pathway to dominance in which "ruthlessness" trumps all other attributes.

Consider the events of the last 6 years from the perspective of ruthless pursuit of specific goals: huge shifts of wealth to the "have mores"; restructuring of government regulations, labor conditions, and judiciary to protect corporate power; setting in motion perpetual state of global conflict to promote economic interests and manage population; and dismantling key elements of the constitution. Read More

Palast: how Bush et al increased their legal liability with "declassification" revelation

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Sunday April 09, 2006 · 4:27 PM PDT

2006/04/09 · 16:27

Greg Palast, in a guest editorial he wrote for Buzzflash, picks up the legal thread spun last week by the administration and and from his perspective as a past federal investigator he outlines the web of legal liabilities in which the cabal is wrapping themselves... "OK, let's accept the White House alibi that releasing Plame's identity was no crime. But if that's true, they've committed a bigger crime: Bush and Cheney knowingly withheld vital information from a grand jury investigation, a multimillion dollar inquiry the perps themselves authorized."

"Palast says, "On February 10, 2004, our not-so-dumb-as-he-sounds President stated, "Listen, I know of nobody -- I don't know of anybody in my administration who leaked classified information. If somebody did leak classified information, I'd like to know it, and we'll take the appropriate action.... Notice Bush's cleverly crafted words. He says he can't name anyone who leaked this "classified" info -- knowing full well he'd de-classified it.

www.buzzflash.com/contributors/06/04/con06129.html#top
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Single Payer Healthcare: A sleeper issue

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Wednesday November 30, 2005 · 8:09 PM PST

2005/11/30 · 20:09

Listening to Al Franken tonight broadcasting from Ashville, North Carolina, I was struck again that health care is a sleeper issue for the 2006 elections. Al's audience was lively and supportive of many of the issues he raised, but the loudest applause came when he mentioned universal health care. It surprises me that the issue of singel payer healthcare is so little mentioned by politicians (excepting Dennis Kucinich) because I think that many people support the idea. I support single payer health care and I want to tell you why. Read More

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