Weekly Read List for Sept 30 - Oct 4th

A few articles that have made an appearance within my commentary on FB, and worth a read:

1. Obama’s Free Trade Agreement: Backdoor Deal with Corporate America? - By Matthew Kavanagh

2. The Trans-Pacific Partnership: We Won’t Be Fooled By Rigged Corporate Trade Agreements - By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese

3. American gun use is out of control. Shouldn't the world intervene? The death toll from firearms in the US suggests that the country is gripped by civil war. - by Henry Porter; The Observer

4. We Are 90 Days Away from the Total Loss of US Sovereignty - by Dave Hodges Activist Post

5. Mitch McConnell Will Ask Supreme Court To Scrap Campaign Contribution Limits Entirely - by Paul Blumenthal

6. World Bank Whistleblower Karen Hudes Reveals How The Global Elite Rule The World  - by Michael Snyder

7.  How the Oligarchs Took America - by AndyKroll

8. Why Can't Obama Bring Wall Street to Justice?

Lifting the veil on we use credit when we cant afford it?

 My comment to Huffington Posts Article by Mark Gongloff titled Household Debt Is Still Too Damn High.

Without jobs, without good paying jobs, or for those of us that are unemployed, we use what little we can manage to find, to scrap up, or to borrow. Those Americans that are using credit and going farther in debt are people trying feed themselves, their spouses and their children. To keep a roof over their heads, their spouses and their children; the scary part is soon, the credit will stop for those as their balances bloom and interest and interests rates soar...and then what?

So many communities in America suffer under this plague. As they keep all of us Middle Class, Working Class Poor and the Poor at each others throats, fighting over abortions and gun control laws, instead of fighting against the Profiteering Banks, Wall Street and their Cronies on the Left and the Right in our Government.

I hope one day soon, we all will be able to wake up and see thorough the smoke and the wool that has been pulled over our eyes, to change this road we are on...a road to servitude and debtors prisons. I didnt join the Military in my youth for this kind of history and future...this is not the America I grew up believing in.

Perhaps soon the tide will turn and those spirits that have been broken within our fellow men and women, will find the strength to right our wrongs and remove all the money from politics; those that have been bought, those that serve only their greed...”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/15/household-debt-high_n_3761579.html

Fear becomes us; Government response is we cant keep you safe unless we take away.

Talk about a speech to insight FEAR among us. We cant PROTECT you UNLESS we STRIPE you of some of your PERSONAL FREEDOMS...

Im worried how easily we are falling for this line of BS in this country. Terrorism, Terrorists, are part of everyday life in most BIG CITIES in America. But all of a sudden we need to lose freedoms for our Government Agencies to do their jobs efficiently.

Now for those of you who will say or question that people in Big Cities, and in smaller ones and rural America too, are NOT living with Terrorism in their lives everyday...what do you think the GANGs are? They do random acts of violence, hold hostages, sell drugs, blow up cars, shoot innocent people, etc. I think this by definition is terrorism. I havent seen anything out of our Government that would justify listening in on EVERYONE in order to catch a few; or has our CIA, FBI, etc, become inferior and incompetent that they can no longer trace or track those people on known terror lists? I mean we let the 9/11 hijacker have VISA's into our country. They were on WATCH lists. We, our government ALLOWED them into our borders. They were not American citizens trying to do this. So now, all of a sudden we have to listen to everyone to follow just a few...for shame that we find this acceptable.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/07/obama-defends-nsa_n_3406448.html

Where is our wake up call???

Our fear is allowing us to become a Police State. Its sad that they have bred us to fear everything and everyone; through this fear, we line up like sheep and allow these things to happen. Corporate Freedoms are increasing and civil liberties are dying. Our Nation has been through so many adversities without allowing this to happen, so why are we allowing this now?

There have been many acts of terror in our Nation and we didnt allow ourselves to lose so much civil liberties in order to bring about justice on just a few.

We all should be ashamed. And to those of us, on the LEFT, who stand by this Administration, because you fear accountability will allow the RIGHT to seize control once again....you are wrong. If this was the RIGHT doing this, you would be screaming for JUSTICE and for heads to roll. We are supposed to be a party of PROGRESS; this is NOT progress. This is not Social Justice. By allowing this to happen, we are eroding the core fabric of our ideals that we hold dear to us...and our becoming like the Extreme Right.

Our Nation, seems to be facing a moment of 'Dark Ages.' Find your voices once again, take to the streets and protest, write letters to your Congressman/women, cast the first stone....but dont sit by and just let this happen.

Find your Path once again America.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/obama-administration-nsa-verizon-records

This Ariticle needs to go VIRAL. I dare any Democrat to dispute this...

First, I want to say with deep humility, I bow down, give out kudos too, applaud, Benny Johnson @ BuzzFeed. This is just brilliant.

I have been jumping up and down, and yelling at the television, the news papers at News Paper Stands, at all my Democrat friends and Associates in Real Life and on FB, the Trolls and the Liberals on HuffPo, about this exact same thing.

Democrats would have had a field day screaming at President Bush, if he did anything like this...well where is your anger now; where are your voices for Social Justice, Civil and Basic Human Rights and dignities; where is your empathy for the innocent?

Democrats screamed for 8 yrs, during the Reign of the Dubya, that Republicans should hold their President accountable for all the Humanitarian violations, broken promises, lies, Covert Ops, etc...now, you are silent.  Like Sheep, who just realized why they were in line at the Wool Factory.

This is an ARTISTICALLY, FANTASTIC, POLITICAL COMMENTARY and THIS SHOULD GO VIRAL.  All Parties and those in-between should make this go viral: http://www.buzzfeed.com/bennyjohnson/things-democrats-would-have-freaked-out-about-if-bush-had-do

Your LOOP HOLES are actually ENTITLEMENTS; it shows in your behavior...

Seems to me, that if the GOP is so adamant that no LOOP HOLES should be touched, as part of any deal with the Obama Administration, and that only ENTITLEMENT programs should be touched, perhaps we need to truly look at the definition and structure given to these terms.  For it appears, to me...that these PRECIOUS LOOPHOLES are ACTALLY, in fact, ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMS.

You GOP'ers some how feel that Corporate America and the 1%, are ENTITLED to HAVE these LOOPHOLES.

Whats that old cliche' "if it smells like bullshit, if it looks like bullshit and if it leaves a bad taste in your mouth...then its probably, BULLSHIT." 

I'm so tired of wading threw the propaganda on both sides of the Aisle, here in America, but I am especially tired of this BULLSHIT that the GOP keeps trying to SPOON FEED US.

Trickle Down Economy does not work...it just makes those with the damns get bigger damns, better and cleaner water supply for themselves.

QUOTE of the NIGHT:

"There are district attorneys and United States attorneys out there every day squeezing ordinary citizens on sometimes very thin grounds and taking them to trial in order to make an example, as they put it. I'm really concerned that 'too big to fail' has become 'too big for trial,'" Elizabeth Warren; at her first Bank Committee Hearing. - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/14/elizabeth-warren-bank-regulators_n_2688998.html

I like her spirit. I like what I see from her. I only hope she will actually to some good. I believe she will slowly get engulfed by the biogelatinous glob that controls Washington.

Her question and reasoning is simple. Her statements ring with truth. Average Joe's are made "examples of" by our Judicial System, in every State and County within our Nation, every day. how come those that broke the law are sheltered; this is almost as bad as the Catholic Church being allowed to shelter Child Abusers. How come we are not doing something about this?

Anyhow...Go Elizabeth! You truly are a small candle of hope that sits near the cup of justice.

QUOTE of the EARLY EVENING

"For example, there are other countries that are polluting in the atmosphere much greater than we are at this point -- China, India, all these countries that are still growing. They’re not going to stop doing what they’re doing." - Marc Rubio; in Response to President Obama's SOTU remark on Global Warming.

So what the hell, when in Rome right???

Absolutely Pathetic...such TRULY INSPIRING, GLOBAL LEADERSHIP.

True Leaders, good leaders, tend to inspire by "leading."  Whats the old cliche'? Lead by....lead by... Oh! Example. Thats right, one should LEAD by EXAMPLE.

I personally believe at this point, who cares if it is "Man Made" or "Natural."  Something is happening, and we better stop bickering and prepare ourselves, our Nations, and our infrastructures, to meet whatever it is to come.

To keep ignoring the "BASIC" and "SIMPLE" facts is pathetic.  What are the "simple" and "basic" facts? Here they are: 1) We are in the Hottest and Driest years recorded in History, 2) Storms are growing bigger and fiercer, 3) Summer and winter months seem to be changing.

And if we can do anyhting to stem the tide, then lets do so.  If it means, changing what we pump into the air...then why shouldnt we do that?  Even if it only helps to reduce it by 2%, lets see...insert another old cliche' here....EVERY DROP COUNTS.

Anyhow, the point of the quote is to rant about what a pathetic reason that is, and how pathetic that that kind of leadership is what is popular on the Right.  That "Holier then thou" mentality is just simple Un-American, Weak minded and arrogant. I'm sure our Forefathers are not proud of us.  We, once were the Greatest Nation on Earth, for we led by example, and other Countries looked up at us...now they mock us, point fingers and laugh.

Its time, we change.

Quote of the Night; Mark Rubio's Response to the SOTU.

"I don’t oppose your plans because I want to protect the rich. I oppose your plans because I want to protect my neighbors." --Marco Rubio's GOP response; you know his Neighbors in that Double-Wide Mansion.