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500 year-old shipyard that is home of British Royal Navy to shut - 1 views

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obama politics YouTube

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  • barrybcollinss on 06 Nov 13
     
    LONDON –  For 5 hundreds of years, considering that the time of the Tudors, the shipyard in Portsmouth, England, built warships that assisted Britain rule the waves and generate an empire. On Wednesday, the yard's employees learned the website will be shut.
Bakari Chavanu

Michael Moore Kills Capitalism with Kool-Aid - Michael W. Covel - Mises Institute - 0 views

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capitalism micheal moore review

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  • Oh sure, in theory I would like to see everyone with their own homestead, money in their pocket for regular shopping frenzies, and no health worries despite eating at Burger King 24/7, but arriving at those goals is not exactly doable unless government robs Peter to pay Paul and/or starts up the printing press.
    • Bakari Chavanu
      Bakari Chavanu on 03 Oct 09
       
      This analysis totally overlooks where real wealth originates from: not from dollars printed by the government or even the redistribution of taxes. It originates from what working class people produce, and what capialist thugs mainly profit off of.
  • And that view of course puts me in opposition to Moore since he has no problem with government as his and our father figure. That is his utopia. He truly believes that warehouses of federal workers, in Washington, D.C., remotely running our lives is the optimal plan. He is an unapologetic socialist who really doesn't care why the poor are poor or the rich are rich, he just wants it fixed. So not surprisingly — and with some generalization as I proffer this — Democrats like Moore and Republicans don't.
    • Bakari Chavanu
      Bakari Chavanu on 03 Oct 09
       
      This is not the point he made in the movie. He makes the argument that workers should control and profite from what they produce.
  • I don't care one way or the other that he has that view and I am not knocking union workers, but Moore sees the world through a class-warfare lens resulting in a certain agenda: force wealth to be spread amongst everyone regardless of effort.
    • Bakari Chavanu
      Bakari Chavanu on 03 Oct 09
       
      So you think it's perfectly okay for individuals to have a net worth of millions and billions of dollars while the people who produce the wealth should not profit from their work?
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  • We listen to heartbreaking stories of foreclosed families across America — but we don't learn why the foreclosures happened. Did these people treat their homes as piggy banks? Was there refinancing on top of refinancing just to keep buying mall trinkets and other goodies with no respect to risk or logic? We don't find out.
    • Bakari Chavanu
      Bakari Chavanu on 03 Oct 09
       
      Yes, we do learn the source of foreclosures. It's banks raising interest rates that people can't possibly pay. It's people making huge amounts of money off the misfortunes of others.
  • $1,000 for cleaning out the house that they were just evicted from. Was it sad? Yes. But should we end capitalism due to this one family in Peoria, IL?
    • Bakari Chavanu
      Bakari Chavanu on 03 Oct 09
       
      He presents this as represenetive example.
  • This film did not make me angry, but it did punch me in the gut. The people in that theater with me, including Moore, were not bad people. They just seem to all have consumed a lethal dose of Kool-Aid.
    • Bakari Chavanu
      Bakari Chavanu on 03 Oct 09
       
      What Kool-aid are you talking about? What other system is really challenging capitalism? Not even the government is the real kool-aid when you've already noted that it works on behalf of the corporate class.
  • As FDR concluded and the film ended, I was shocked at the reaction. The theater of 400-plus spectators stood and cheered wildly at FDR's 1944 proposal. The questions running through my head were immediate: how does one legislate words like useful, enough, recreation, adequate, decent, and good? Who decides all of this and to what degree?
  • So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear: that there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
  • Friedman's logic was what I was remembering as a theater full of people cheered wildly for a second Bill of Rights. How did this film crowd actually think FDR's 1944 vision could be executed? Frankly, it was clear to me at that moment that capitalism is on shaky ground. From Bush "abandoning" capitalism to bailouts for everyone, to Obama gifting away the future, we seriously might be past the point of no return toward a socialization of America.
  • There is a lengthy dissertation on the evils of Goldman Sachs. He rips Robert Rubin and Hank Paulson big time, and I agree with him. In fact, I said to myself, "Moore, you should have done your whole film on Goldman Sachs!"
  • Moore sees Reagan entering the scene as a shill for corporate-banking interests.
  • Bakari Chavanu on 03 Oct 09
     
    I include my reacations to this review in which I think Covel misleads readers about Moore's movie.
thinkahol *

Op-Ed Columnist - Redo That Voodoo - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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republican voodoo economics

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  • thinkahol * on 16 Jul 10
     
    Republicans are talking confidently about the midterm elections, which is cause for concern.
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Op-Ed Columnist - Attacking Social Security - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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social security facts attack distortion

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    Critics of the program claim that its future is in peril. But their math doesn't add up, and underneath their hostility is ignorance of the realities of life for many Americans.
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Op-Ed Columnist - The Flimflam Man - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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paul krugman ryan tax deficit politics

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  • thinkahol * on 07 Aug 10
     
    The Beltway crowd gets fooled again, this time by Representative Paul Ryan's plan for a major overhaul of federal spending and taxes.
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Op-Ed Columnist - Structure of Excuses - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Op-Ed Columnist - Structure of Excuses NYTimes.com

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  • thinkahol * on 28 Sep 10
     
    "Structural" unemployment is a fake problem, which mainly serves as an excuse for not pursuing real solutions.
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The profound mystery of the "enthusiasm gap" - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - 0 views

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profound mystery of the enthusiasm gap

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  • What's most amazing about this is that Democrats generally and the White House specifically seem completely uninterested in doing anything about this -- other than exacerbating it.
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Op-Ed Columnist - The Real Story - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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paul krugman

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  • thinkahol * on 05 Sep 10
     
    Here's hoping that President Obama goes big next week with new proposals for boosting the economy.
thinkahol *

Op-Ed Contributor - How to End the Great Recession - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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robert reich

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  • thinkahol * on 05 Sep 10
     
    To fix the U.S. economy, we must finally deal with wage inequality.
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Op-Ed Columnist - The Angry Rich and Taxes - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Op-Ed Columnist - The Angry Rich and Taxes NYTimes.com

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  • thinkahol * on 23 Sep 10
     
    Political rage is coming not from the jobless, but from the very privileged, who are furious at the thought of their tax cuts expiring.
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In defense of Alan Simpson - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - 0 views

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greenwald glenn in defense of alan simpson

shared by thinkahol * on 07 Sep 10 - Cached
  • One of the most significant developments in the U.S. is the rapidly and severely increasing rich-poor gap.  A middle class standard of living is being suffocated and even slowly eliminated, as budget cuts cause an elimination of services that are hallmarks of first-world living.  Because the wealthiest Americans continue to consolidate both their monopoly on wealth and, more important, their control of Congress and the government generally, we respond to all of this by enacting even more policies which exacerbate that gap and favor even more the wealthiest factions while taking more from the poorest and most powerless.  And now, the very people responsible for the vulernable financial state of the U.S. want to address that problem by targeting one of the very few guarantors in American life of a humane standard of living:  Social Security.
  • thinkahol * on 07 Sep 10
     
    He deserves gratitude for his candor about the goals of Obama's Deficit Commission and Social Security
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Too Many Hamburgers? By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN - 0 views

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Too Many Hamburgers? By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN china economics op ed nytimes

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  • thinkahol * on 23 Sep 10
     
    To visit China today as an American is to compare and to be compared. And from the very opening session of this year's World Economic Forum here in Tianjin, our Chinese hosts did not hesitate to do some comparing. China's CCTV aired a skit showing four children - one wearing the Chinese flag, another the American, another the Indian, and another the Brazilian - getting ready to run a race. Before they take off, the American child, "Anthony," boasts that he will win "because I always win," and he jumps out to a big lead. But soon Anthony doubles over with cramps. "Now is our chance to overtake him for the first time!" shouts the Chinese child. "What's wrong with Anthony?" asks another. "He is overweight and flabby," says another child. "He ate too many hamburgers." That is how they see us.
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Economic View - Confronting Income Inequality - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Economic View - Confronting Income Inequality NYTimes.com

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    Economics was founded by moral philosophers, and links between the two disciplines remain strong. So why won't economists make judgments on the gap between rich and poor?
thinkahol *

Op-Ed Columnist - Third Party Rising - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Op-Ed Columnist - Third Party Rising NYTimes.com

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  • thinkahol * on 04 Oct 10
     
    There's a revolution brewing in the country. Could a third party be coming to challenge the Democrats and Republicans in 2012?
thinkahol *

Op-Ed Columnist - Fear and Favor - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Op-Ed Columnist - Fear and Favor NYTimes.com

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  • thinkahol * on 06 Oct 10
     
    Media moguls have often promoted politicians who would serve their interests. But at Fox News, it isn't stopping there.
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Op-Ed Columnist - That's Where the Money Is - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Op-Ed Columnist - That's Where the Money Is NYTimes.com John Boehner

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  • thinkahol * on 06 Oct 10
     
    John Boehner is the quintessential example of shameless government figures guiding the fortunes of the rich and powerful.
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Hitler Exhibition Explores German Society That Empowered Nazis - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Hitler Exhibition Explores German Society That Empowered Nazis - NYTimes.com

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  • thinkahol * on 21 Oct 10
     
    A show in Berlin focuses on the German society that nurtured and empowered the Nazi leader.
David Corking

Media Release - NCUA Conserves U.S. Central and Western Corporate Credit Unions March... - 0 views

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Culture Finance

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  • The central short-term objective of NCUA’s Corporate Stabilization Program has been to increase liquidity in corporate credit unions. Since the NCUA Board first began taking stabilization actions, liquidity has demonstrated marked improvement. The reliance on external borrowing has declined from $11.8 billion to $2.1 billion. NCUA believes that the actions to conserve the two corporates, in tandem with established plans to enhance liquidity and generally stabilize the corporate network, represent the most cost effective and prudent alternative available to the credit union industry.
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 23 Mar 09
       
      Everyone seems to agree that the issue with the CU system is liquidity (being able to turn loans or bonds into cash). This is smaller, and much more easy to fix, than solvency problems that have damaged much of the rest of the financial system. (Solvency is having more assets - such as loans and bonds - than liabilities - such as customer deposits.)
Levy Rivers

Business Reputation: Creativity and Happiness: Reputation: Building on Trust - 0 views

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election happiness mccain obam reputation

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  • One of the major outcomes of the attacks of 9/11 is the clear contest between forces that believe that the world civilization so based on trust can endure the counter views of the terrorist. The question for me is to what degree do our USA national reputation and organizing principles engender trust and freedom.
  • Barack (Lets reason together) is clearly for recapturing our lost status and McCain wants to extend the tough guy image of the Bush doctrine (Fear US - USA reserves the right to attack first).
  • This is especially understood - but not excused - in those of my generation and older, both from a black and white perspective.  For blacks its owed to us based on time in the country - as if a quota could make such a tactic make sense or even worse is he black enough to get back what racism over these many years has taken from us. On the other end are whites that figure that any black person smart enough to become President must be smart enough to take back from them all the advantages that they have accumulated.
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