I wouldn’t say “advanced”…Disease resistant, ruthless and extremely ignorant is a powerful mix when handed gunpowder. running around shooting your teachers with it so that you forget who taught you and nothing is left to compete with your calculus and bar soap is what happened.

unfortunately, people who spread to other parts of the planet did not know that they were there because they decended from blacks- and being s’mwhat more advanced than medes, elemites, persians, arabs, et al- concluded that they (we) were superior.
thnx

Americans also need access to subsidized or free Universities and Colleges, this country needs more public socialist education instead of private education. It would also be a great idea for US government to regulate right-wing stations like CNN and FOX and also to create a state-owned progressive TV station with progressive media people like Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, in order to spread the ideology of the US founding fathers, to teach americans democratic egalitarian values, so that thru a good education programs americans truely be free individuals and architects of of our own destiny and wealth. On the international level it is worth studying the closing of most US military bases, the incorporation of USA in the ALBA (Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas), and it would be a great idea to consider Jimmy Carter as peace missioner on the Israeli-Palestine conflict.

I agree with much on T-S analysis I think he is too optimistic about the state of conscientiousness of American workers for revolutionary changes. That really should be quite evident from the even the conditions as its exist on the Left. There is just too much polarization among the working class despite that they share common oppression. There has been a deliberate attempts even by the so-called “vanguard” to maintain a state of disarray on the Left who should be building alliances and solidarity — ESPECIALLY WITH PEOPLE OF COLOR. Until the working class can build that bridge there WILL NOT be any change of any revolutionary movement in the United States.

The best potential of having a revolutionary effort IMO is coming from the Latino/a communities. They were able to mobilize against the horrid Stensenbrenner bill and that shocked the ruling class. That mobilization was an extension of the kind of mobilization in Latin America. There is clearly some hope on that front. I’m sure there are other fronts but those fronts have to be able to coalesce and find solidarity. There will be no revolution IMO if they remain disparate.

I’m all ears if T-S can demonstrate or offer suggestions as to how these fronts can unite.

In addition I would like to see the range of opinion not limited to Amy Goodman but I would like to see more inclusion and a wider range of opinion coming from the left from people who are serious and passionate about fighting injustice.

USA was a very developed nation producing a lot of wealth, and statibility for most US citizens compared to third world nations which have less rational, orderly, and scientific political and economic systems.

USA has never been a socialist nation, however the capitalist-welfare american system provided stability for most americans thru the a “trickle down capitalist welfare system”.

Unfortunately, thanks to the mafia-cartels of both capitalist parties (Democrats and Republicans)this ‘trickle down welfare capitalist system’ which has provided stability, food, cars, pleasures, toys and wealth for majority of americans is coming to an end ending !!

Sooner or later this ‘tricke down welfare capitalist system’ will not provide bread for all, and will morph a plutocratic corporate capitalist system that can only provide stability, food and wealth for the upper bourgeoise classes of America.

when that time comes we will see a revolutionary situation, when the proletariat take the bull by its horns and overthrows the corporate corrupted capitalist system for complete emancipation of the workign classes of this country

HERE ARE THE MAIN 3 TRAITS OF A REVOLUTIONARY SITUATION IN USA:

# 1 – When it is impossible for the rich people of this country (like Bill Gates, Jennifer Lopez, Tom Cruise, Donald Trump, Al Gore, Ross Perot, Dick Cheney, etc.) to maintain their wealth without any change; when there is an economic crisis, in one form or another, among the rich people, a crisis in the policy of the rich ruling class, leading to a fissure through which the discontent and indignation of middle and lower classes of America burst forth. For a socialist-revolution to take place, it is usually insufficient for the middle and lower classes not to want to live in their old comfortable and stable way; it is also necessary that the rich upper millionaire class should be unable to live in their old comfortable way.

# 2 – When the suffering and the needs of the middle and lower working classes of this country have grown more acute than usual

# 3 – When, as a consequence of the above causes, there is a considerable increase in the activity of the middle and working classes, who uncomplainingly allow themselves to be robbed in peace time, but, in turbulent times, are drawn both by all the circumstances of the crisis *and by the upper classes themselves* into independent historical action.

READ SOME OF MY PERSONAL THOUGHTS ON HOW TO SAVE UNITED STATES FROM SINKING LIKE THE TITANIC:

What USA needs is a gradual change toward a participative-democratic socialist system of the XXI Century, thru a Constitutional Reform by a Constitutional Assembly like many modern nations today are reforming their own political and economic systems in order to change this country from a corporate-kleptocratic plutocracy of the few into a participative-democratic social economic democracy for all americans, not for the few millionaires and billionaires.

A Political Reform would not be complete without a democratic economic reform, so that USA could move from a corporate-capitalist country toward a real democratic workers socialist economy by the workers in favor of workers who are the creators of wealth like Karl Marx said.

The wealth of this great land belongs to all US citizens and specially *workers* who are the creators of wealth, but they won’t be able to claim that wealth without a nationalization program under state and workers-control of the key elements of US industries like oil, water, communication, electricity, gold, mines, etc.

Americans also need access to subsidized or free Universities and Colleges, this country needs more public socialist education instead of private education. It would also be a great idea for US government to regulate right-wing stations like CNN and FOX and also to create a state-owned progressive TV station with progressive media people like Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, in order to spread the ideology of the US founding fathers, to teach americans democratic egalitarian values, so that thru a good education programs americans truely be free individuals and architects of of our own destiny and wealth. On the international level it is worth studying the closing of most US military bases, the incorporation of USA in the ALBA (Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas), and it would be a great idea to consider Jimmy Carter as peace missioner on the Israeli-Palestine conflict.

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Let others know about People’s Revolution! Spread the word… the more who know the truth, the greater the force against the capitalist system! Resistance forever!

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STICK UP YOUR MIDDLE FINGER TO US IMPERIALISM AND CAPITALIST OPPRESSION!

1) the oil camp
2) the Zionism/AIPAC camp

Because this is a summary, I am omitting items such as religion, water/land theft, military trade etc for reasons of brevity. Personally, with the little reading I have done, I am a fence-sitter with a slight lean to the oil camp. My reasons are simple – guys in power do something and expect a return for their actions. We support you cos we need the oil.

Could someone please (briefly) explain to me – If 2) Zionism/AIPAC is the FOREMOST reason that the US has it’s nose in the Middle East, what benefit does the US gain from this relationship? I believe, like many DV readers, that the US is an evil empire. But they are not stupid. When there is a relationship with another country, the US (like all countries) only wish to be on the winning side of the deal. International affairs is not a charity.

Becasue I respect his comments, I would prefer if Deadbeat replies. This request is genuine and not in the spirit of provocation.

Please explain.

Cheers Garrett

Great comment.

RG the LG,

How do you know folks here aren’t taking action? Many DV readers, for all either of us know, might be active in grassroots organizing.

Two thoughts … one maybe we, the few who respond, are the only ones who agree … two, maybe we are just complaining and don’t really want anything done to disturb the empire and our place under the sun?

RG the LG

how cogruent was slavery with (hallowed) constitution? very compatible! else one of the two had to have gone; either the slavery or the constitution.

actually a writ, any writing is dead until it is read and upon some reflection interpreted; i.e., a meaning extracted.
remember reading and digesting what one is reading cannot happen at the same time; thre is a time gap;very tiny one.
and according to heisenberg’s nonidentity principle time factor plays vital role in nonidentity of two events separated by even microsecond.

obviously we can’t blame socalled zionism for this; i.e., a particular case of land theft.

and folks, by now all of us observers, know that it is judiciary who interpret any law/saying.
and judges are not elected but selected! by whom? unfortunately we don’t know but must guess.
nevertheless, people call it democracy. but then people call a clazy priest “father” and head of one church “papa”, the chief father.

‘zionist’ have stolen land; fraction of what UK, Russia, India, pakistan, france, US et al have stolen.
not of course that ‘zionists’ don’t want to steal much, much more land.

what ‘zionists’ have is a wretched piece of land. so it is only natch that some USans with the cult beseech US ruling class asking permission to go for more.
and the darn it, US is not listening. so, quest’n arises how powerful are the ‘jews’? sixty yrs gone by and still there is no israel. there are palestinians in israel who are not wanted.
who’s in charge of this matter? it appears not to be ‘jews’. jews are desperately trying to obtain an apsolute peaceful occupation and thereby peace that they so desperately desire.

as noted before, ‘jews’ still don’t have a country. and why? well, by having a country, getting or stealing more land wld amount to casus belli.
nor does israel has to sign anything or agree to any law it doesn’t like.
it seems it can get away with such lawlesness only because the mighty christian world allows it. thnx

Best to you.

I’m pleased to see your positive reinforcement confirming my suspicion regarding the fact that JA particularly has his head buried in the dark crevice of his arse.

Best to you.

This has been my refrain for months. Deadbeat and J. Anderson are bent on the ahistorical version which makes the US a “boy toy” for Israel, with only the best intentions until the US plutocrats got suckered by “Zionism” and AIPAC.

The omission, as you rightly put it, seems to almost be chauvinistic (pro-US) on the part of these posters (DB/JA). It verges on anti-Jew.

I have repeatedly stated the monster that is AIPAC and the terrorist nation-state Israel. But that is not enough for DB and JA, et al.

It is ALL about AIPAC/Zionism. The US is just a poor patsy with no history (current as well as past) of terror when the facts show just the opposite concerning the latter.

The “tail/dog” is just a Gordian knot that gets us nowhere. I suspect that’s exactly where JA and DB want to keep it.

The singular fascination with Israel begs what the hell you think the US was doing before Zionism. For as much conspiracy (a word I respect and hold dear) as you tout, it seems that you yourselves have a need to believe the US was somehow a benevolent force for good on the planet and all things evil began with Israel. The conspiracy happening in broad daylight is bad enough without pretending that the US was a light on the hill until lizard men from space corrupted it. Is it better to have the likes of the Constitutionalists dictating world power? Seriously, fuck them all but stop being so loving by omission to the gentiles…do they feed better scraps under the table? Yes, AIPAC is horrible and the argument is wide open to whether the tail wags more than the dog does–but if it were obvious that it didn’t, would you folks be pledging the allegiance, voting for Ron Paul and hanging Mexicans and abortionists? What’s after Israel?

Rob Rogers
Posted: 02/04/2009 05:59:55 PM PST

Hattar hasn’t been doing as much gardening in the past week. She’s taking shorter showers. And she’s letting her laundry pile up until the weekend.
“Each household is limited to 150 gallons of water per day,” said Hattar, a Bolinas resident. “That includes households with five people, or 10 people, or even two. It’s not fair. But that’s what it is.”
For the past week, the Bolinas Public Utility District has limited each of its 581 customers to 150 gallons of water per day in response to a drought that has drained the town’s reservoirs, fed by the drying Arroyo Hondo Creek.
After two warnings, a customer’s water connection would be shut off.
Yet while the unprecedented rationing has attracted widespread media attention to the West Marin town, it barely seems to have fazed Bolinas residents, most of whom already use less than the prescribed 150-gallon limit.
“The best thing for us to happen in a long time was to have no rain. It’s long overdue,” said Donald Holmes, who’s been limiting his water use for years with low-flow showers and toilets. “We’ve been giving away all the water in California to Southern California. The plans to limit growth that were put in place here are long overdue in other parts of the state.”
At the Coast Cafe, bathrooms are now off-limits to non-customers, and glasses of water are available only at the customer’s request – and then they’re served in a disposable cup made of biodegradable corn plastic.

The restaurant is encouraging its staff to do whatever it can to reduce dishwashing: beer is served in the bottle and spoons are placed on the table only if someone asks for them.
“It makes you think about what you really have to have,” said waitress Pam Springer, who said the drought – though the worst she’d seen in 15 years – hasn’t had a dramatic impact on her life.
“We don’t have a washing machine, so we don’t have to cut back a lot,” Springer said. “We could probably sell our extra water.”
Juan Garcia has a washing machine, but decided to take his laundry to the Bolinas Laundromat on Wednesday. Because the laundromat has front-loading washers that use less water – six to eight gallons a load as opposed to 45 to 50 gallons for traditional top-loading washers – district officials have recommended going to the laundromat as a kind of civic duty.
Garcia, however, just wanted to keep more of his 150-gallon allotment for washing and drinking.
“I don’t use too much water for washing food, and I don’t use water for the garden,” Garcia said.
Down the street at the Bolinas School, Principal Leo Kostelnik was smiling. On Friday, the school used 635.8 gallons of water. On Tuesday, it used only 329 – well below its target rate of 480 gallons.
But Kostelnik believes it’s not enough for his students to cut back on their water use. His four-part plan encourages them to grapple with the problem – and even solve it.
“We want each grade to understand the problem,” Kostelnik said. “We want to work with them on thinking about solutions. We want them to take field trips to see our sources of water (the Arroyo Hondo and the town’s two emergency reservoirs). And we want them to do community outreach.”
This year’s drought isn’t the first time Bolinas students have sprung to action in the event of a crisis.
In 2007, Kostelnik organized groups of students to remove debris from the beaches of Bolinas Lagoon, preventing them from becoming soaked with oil in the wake of the Cosco Busan spill. This time, while sixth- through eighth-grade students work on understanding the math behind water rationing, third-graders will be working to create a community bulletin board with information about water conservation.
Next week, Bolinas will host a schoolwide presentation on the drought. There’s no money for the presentation – like every school district in California, Bolinas has been hamstrung by the state’s budget crisis – but music teacher Annie Owen convinced a group of performers, recently in town for a Jan. 17 seed swap, to return for the event.
“The subject is ‘The Last Glass of Water in Bolinas,’ and how no one is able to get to it,” Owen said. “This is going to be a ‘teachable moment’ that includes everyone in the community.” MIJ

Just a little reason why can’t we see just a little reason. What happened to the human mind for many. What happened?