Same As It Ever Was. Again.
Posted by larue in Current Events, Defense, Economic News, Environment, Global News, Health, News, Politics, President Obama, Relaxed Politics, US News, US Politics
There’s this pattern that’s emerged ever since the TARP beginnings of ’sposed bank/finance reform, and it’s repeated itself ad nauseum in the energy reform bill issues and now more openly as the healthcare reform issues come to light.
Given the level of hope and reform we elected Obama to pursue, it’s becoming REAL disheartening to see these patterns continue to dominate, water down, obstruct and even eliminate any efforts to change or reform sectors of our nation that desperately need it.
Those patterns are the unfettered and continual emergence of special interest lobbying moneys that rival the lost pallets of Billions Of Dollars by the War Machine in Iraq and elsewhere.
There are graphs FDL and others have put up showing industry by industry, be it banking/finan or energy or healthcare, graphs that show lobby money by industry, company, and to which politician.
And although it’s no SECRET our pols are bought off and paid for, despite the fact WE voted them in, it’s just damned frustrating to have all the evidence there in our face about our pols being influenced and corrupted by dollars from special interest groups and we STILL can’t seem to get anything done or hold them accountable for their actions.
Now, while I read HuffPo daily, I DO consider it a tabloid headline kind of place for the most part. But Arianna DOES publish source articles from places I don’t always get to, and she herself is really no slouch when it comes to public opinion editorializing. And this read is a good one, with linky’s to sources and other supporting information.
And Arriana says all I would have to say about these patterns of influence buying and meddling in our legislative affairs. So give it a read if you haven’t already seen it.
A GREAT Read About Financial Issues National And Global
Glenn Greenwald April 20th, Bankers Own The Senate
Robert Sheer Exposes Goldman Sachs, Geithner, Paulson And Our Government
And for the life of me I don’t know why Deep Capture, and Mark Mitchell’s new epic about Dendreon don’t get a LOT of play in the blogs as they offer factual, detailed and vivid analysis and revelations of bad guys and the bad things they’ve done. Like take down our financial system and helping to destroy the global financial structure. Read It All Here
Another source of incredible inside info on dark and nasty doings is Sibel Edmonds Blog. She’s onto SO many things it’s a wonder she’s not been ‘eliminated’ somehow.
What’s my point?
I don’t see no stinking change.
I see the enabling of the status quo.
Same As It Ever Was.
Again.
And I never got to the part about the War Machine Abroad and how part of ITS mission creep for the 1% elite is not only to influence, access, control natural resources and their distribution methods, but how our War Machine is actually taking over the development, harvesting and transportation of heroin and other drugs worldwide to create all KINDS of laundering operations for money that’s spent to further the global encroachment of that 1%.
Like Milo in Catch 22 and his M&M Enterprises, corruption is everywhere.
It can be quite overwhelming. But here’s what I’m slowly learning after decades of frustration about a lack of progressive movement forward.
The only way to get beyond it is to focus on yourself, and what YOU can do for yourself, your family, and those you care for. And those little ripples, if everybody was to create them, can lift a mighty tide. Think of ONE person in the back of a bus. Think of ONE student who dared to go to school.
And that’s my hope, to counter such despair I paint. That by doing what you can for yourself, it will move others 
Hard lesson to learn, for me.
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A Must Read From Masaccio At FDL
And take note especially of Selise at #14 and #15, and the links provided, too.
I’ve got to step out and work out.
If I offended Betsy, PB or anyone below on the protest thread, I humbly apologize for slamming my rigid opinions at folks, but that’s me . . . it’s how I roll. Blunt and to the point . . .
Per Betsy’s Email, a FINE looking pic! Whoops! I closed my email, and piccie went buh by. I’ll go get it, load it to photobucket . . . stay tuned for further baloons . . . sigh . . . .
“I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.”
Mark Twain
And a lot of SCOTUS watchers are predicting the Roberts court will completely eviscerate McCain-Feingold. And some court has (again) ruled that FOX is free to lie and call it “news” (the last time, as I recall, was just local to Florida).
The good news is that the number of active SEC and FBI financial fraud investigations is now up around 5,000.
I am still live blogging downstairs. Can I get someone to post pix for me pls?
@ gordon:
Refresh me, what was McCain-Feingold?
Your comment made me laugh, the last line made me smile.
Betsy, I posted one pic, shoot them over I’m standing by . .
Stuffs Happenin!
Ya know, it just hit me.
AIPAC is bound to be monitoring all of this.
And I’ll bet it fry’s their facist little asses to see it.
Jewish Americans supporting Iranian Americans, and Iranians.
Persians, no less. That’s a rainbow of love
YOU GO AUSTIN!
@ larue:
McCain-Feingold is campaign finance. The buzz is that Roberts will gut all the “soft money” restrictions.
Hey larue. Bob Kincaid calls me the HORN’s Jewish mother and is fascinated that I attend these things. Anyway, the code for the slideshow is in a draft backstage. Go play with the post while I go shower and eat.
@ larue:
Checking over the last post (to see what doo-doo you stepped in this time) – “suburban vs rural” is kind of cheap. “Democracy vs Theocracy” is better, but also misleading. What the demonstrators have in common is that they’re sick of being restricted, isolated and beaten up. They would like, at least to some degree, to rejoin the rest of the world. According to what I see from Baer and some Iranians in this country is that the underlying conflict is between the military (and Khameni is not really an Ayatollah – he’s ex-military) and almost everybody else.
Who knows what the actual vote tally was – there is clearly no way in hell you can count 10s of millions of paper ballots by hand in 3 hours.
BTW, Iran has a fairly large Jewish population (a few million as I recall), who were actually treated fairly well. At least until the demagogueing started.
gordon wrote:
DOH! Now I remember. Campaign finance reform. Lobby reform. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
@ gordon:
If ya read the Asia Times and other assorted sources they all clearly spell out the differences between the protestors in the streets and those backing the government. I’m still not sure you can call it military v. anyone.
But yes, Rafs v. Khameni is the underlying issue being fought, and people ARE lining up one way or another based on rural and suburban/urban backgrounds. But military v. Rafs is not quite the broad brush. The Rev Guards are part of it all, and the Basiji are part of it all, and well, there’s a LOT of sup plots going on.
But it don’t take a mullah to tell which way the wind blows, and THEY ARE DIVIDED amongst themselves about all of this.
And they are really the issue at hand. Which mullah will end up perceived by ALL the people, as being the most interested in Iran’s people, will spell the end of the ferment.
In the meantime . . . the US is spinning CIA bred misinformation galore. The Dulles Brothers would be proud.
Texas Betsy wrote:
Bob’s got an interesting thing going on . . . bless him for taking on the south single handedly!!!
And I wouldn’t mess with anything back stage for the life of a good bright shiny red apple . .
Hey Bumz, I’m home! Had a fishing and crawfishing evening at the island with grandson. We caught about ten fish, all perch, and five crawfish. Of course we let them all go.
Hey Gnome. I am working on the next thread.
gnome de plume wrote:
And here I am with all this garlic, EVOO, shallots, white wine, basil and butter . . . yer killin me . .
Ok, I mean, It’s not like I NEEDED a reason to get pissed off . .
BUT THIS IS FOOKIN SUBJECT TO SERIOUS PROTESTATIONS!!!!
And I DAMNED sure didn’t mean Protestants.
HARUMPH!!!!
Hey y’all, I’m home!
@ larue:
Look at it this way: the Rev Guard & Basiji are loyal to Khameni, as is Ahmadinejad.
Anybody who is sick of them (mullahs who don’t like their version of Islam, the middle class who can’t stand their ecomonic and foreign policies…) are united against them. It’s fragile. Just like Larry Johnson used to be a friend of progressives because he hated Bush. Until it turned out he hates Obama even more, and would prefer Sarah Palin.
There are only 3 types of political movements: those united behind an idea, those united behind a personality, and those who are agin’ it (whatever it is). The first dies when the idea is proved not to work (takes generations – cf American Conservatism). The second dies with the person. And the third dies as soon as it gains power.
And that’s all the polysci you’re gettin’ from me tonight, buster.
videos & pix upstairs
gordon wrote:
Yer polisci don’t suck Gordon . . . I’d argue about it, but it don’t suck!!
madmommy wrote:
Da OTHER MOMS!