Loaded for Bear...

This speech by Chris Hedges, in Santa Cruz on November 2014, finds him in rare form, and is perhaps one of his best.   If you are an activist (or even not), and you find yourself looking around at the Democratic-Republic facade crumbling around you and the rest of us, and get discouraged - view this.   You'll be reminded in a hurry as to why the fight is worth the effort - even if we don't win (as far as the courts of public opinion and otherwise are concerned), the key is to RESIST.   

This man talks the talk, but he also walks the walk, having been arrested several times for protesting and having been booed off the stage at a college commencement for having the temerity (read: courage) to speak out against the Iraq war.   

Check it out.  

Redux, and Redux (and Wash, Rinse, and Repeat, Again and Again)...

Of all of the overly premature 2016 campaign rumblings going on in the MSM, one that has piqued my interest is that the MittWit is considering a run for the presidency again.   You've got to admire this guy, if nothing else for his tenacity, hubris, and possibly, his unshaken faith in the prophecy that a Mormon president will save the country.  

Need a few reminders of just what a clueless oligarch this guy is?   Here are a few memes published on Democratic Underground, featuring the "47 percent" comment that famously hoisted him on his petard in 2012. 

If you think Obama had fun with him in the second and third debates in 2012, imagine what HRC will do to him (and as you may know, I'm no fan of Hill OR Bill).  

Please proceed, Mitt.    

Outrage

This has been making me absolutely ill lately.   

More than half of all school-age children are now living in low-income households.  

It's not like we weren't warned this was happening.  We've seen the trends.    We've seen the results of the economic policies of Reagan and afterward.  

We've heard the countless exhortations by those "of means" for those "without" to pick themselves up by the bootstraps and stop being so "lazy".   They're getting brazen now, too - to wit, Warren Buffet said something to this effect not too long ago, and you can turn on Foxy News or Foxy Business anytime to hear variants of this theme.  

And there are precious few media outlets out there that will provide adequate pushback to this nonsense.  Think Mess-NBC is going to provide that pushback?  They're feeble, at best.  And the other outlets, RT (with its Putin smear), Pacifica Radio (with its Hippie smear), and most of the remaining liberal talk show hosts (who have been driven to near-online-exclusivity), have been driven to the sidelines.  

We're supposedly the richest country on earth.   What more proof do we need regarding how unequal the wealth is being redistributed?  This is just the latest in an arms-length list of indictments of American economic superiority.

Freudian Slip, Much?

In this clip, brought to us by the fine folks at The Young Turks, Meet The Press' Chuck Todd finally lets slip the truth as to why modern political "journalism" is so milquetoast.     Bark at the politicians (now owned by Corporate America) and they no longer come onto your show.   Then, you have no show.   Then, you have no career.  

We knew it was only a matter of time before somebody lets the truth slip out.  

What do we do about this?  Comments are welcome...