A Great Animation on the Education System

Also:

Class warfare

GOP Wants You To Work To Death

They must be desperate if they are risking alienating senior citizens.



I agree that what we have in place isn't sustainable, but the answer is not to work the populace when they should be enjoying what little time they have before death. The answer, as usual, is to go where there is a surplus of money and that means taxing the rich.

The Cost of the War in Afghanistan

Report on the War on Drugs in Mexico

The big problem with both drugs and illegal immigration from Mexico is the crippling poverty. America has a relationship of exploitation with this country and its only getting poorer due to one-sided American business interests.

The real solution to our problems with Mexico is to support the Mexican economy until it is able to support itself. Mexicans will be less inclined to come to America if they are making a good living at home. Less people will be involved in drug dealing if they have other profitable jobs available.

The GOP's "Grassroots" Campaign

The Philosophy of George Carlin

Glenn Beck blends uses racism to denounce socialism

The State of Things

I'm not a big Bjork fan, but I like the message.

Democrats VS Republicans

Pros and Cons of Financial Reform Bill

Canadian banks vs American Banks

How many millionaires are in the world?

Another Young Turks video:

Heaven and Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism

A full-length documentary about socialism.

I'm not sure I like this documentary. It seems to have an agenda suggesting that socialism is an experiment destined to fail and it doesn't acknowledge the many different ways socialism has been organized, particularly by distinguishing it from Communism.

But there is some good information.



UPDATED:
This is from a review of the book that this documentary is based on. It was published on Amazon. The facts check out. I started questioning this documentary as soon as I saw the smug look on the writer's face. It's the same look they have over at Fox News. The look of someone with something to prove...

This book was written by Joshua Muravchik, who works for the American Enterprise Institute. The same AEI that is one of the major architects of Bush IIs policies. It is also the same AEI that's mission statement says that it's aim is "to defend the principles and improve the institutions of American freedom and democratic capitalism -- limited government, private enterprise, individual liberty and responsibility, vigilant and effective defense and foreign policies, political accountability, and open debate." In other words the author here is an employee of a conservative, neo-liberal think tank. Prima facie, he would not seem to be unbiased on Socialism... upon reading the book, it becomes obvious.

Also, don't let the fact that Mr. Muravchik was the former chairman of the Young People's Socialist League give you any false pretense of a balanced historical view. He seems as enthralled with Socialism as an ex-smoker is with cigarettes, i.e. he looks back longingly at the ideology, albeit with much self-loathing and then preaches the failures of socialism with all the vigor of a born-again (non-smoker, etc.)

Long story short, taking everything in this with a grain of salt and a discerning mind.

Wealth distribution

Enjoy.



Notice how the line graph illustrates a direct and inverse correlation between the income of the rich and the income of... well, not the poor, but the majority.

If you aren't studying economics, you can't understand our problems or how to get out of them. And if you are studying economics with the goal of exploiting it, you have no interest in facts, but only perceptions.

This is the equivalent of the church monopolizing the "truth" of God and the universe. We need economic scientists devoted to facts rather than an agenda of exploitation.

Grandma Shot For Being A Radical Idiot

Here is a story from my neck of the woods.

This is about an hour's drive from where I live.

Some people are calling this a tragedy or police abuse... I'm calling it fucking retarded.

1) You do not pull a gun on a census worker. That is some fucked up psycho shit. They are doing a job. If you hate the census that much, refuse to answer them.

2) You do NOT pull a gun on a cop. If you do, you better be prepared to (A) die or (B) go to jail for the rest of your life. Because chances are that one of those things is going to happen.

This is what happens when fascist radicals like Glenn Beck make people afraid of something as harmless as a census form.

The census is written into the constitution of this country. It is the foundation of our democracy. In order to represent the citizens, we have to know who they are. That is what the census is for.

But these assholes clearly thought that it was part of some socialist Obama conspiracy.

I hope this is the only time in my life when I don't have sympathy for a grandma being shot by the cops.

She pulled a gun. Never pull a gun on a person unless you are prepared to use it and/or die... especially when you pull it on other people with guns... and ESPECIALLY when those people have the law behind them.

Jesus Christ.

TYT: More Alan Grayson

Excellent work, sir.

TYT: Franken in the Senate, Grayson in the House

I've been watching these videos from The Young Turks. Essentially, these people made their own news show and put it on YouTube. The host is a bit obnoxious, but the content is fantastic.

Anyway, here is Al Franken rockin' health care reform.



UPDATED

Alan Grayson also rocks health care.

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