March 23, 2016 A World War has Begun: Break the Silence by John Pilger I have been filming in the Marshall Islands, which lie north of Australia, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Whenever…
Source: The Bombs May Not HaveDropped Yet, But We ARE at War
Some very interesting book reviews about this book to be found in Google!
The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy
In the above film review Dr. Bramhall points out that
“Roosevelt’s Second Bill of Rights included the basic right of all Americans to
• Employment (right to work)
• Food, clothing and leisure, via enough income to support them
• Farmers’ rights to a fair income
• Freedom from unfair competition and monopolies
• Housing
• Medical care
• Social security
• Education”
Dr. Bramhall says:
“For me, the most interesting part of his presentation was a discussion of Franklin D Roosevelt’s Second Bill of Rights.* According to McChesney, both Germany and Japan incorporated this Second Bill of Rights into their constitutions after World War II. This, in his view, explains why both countries have become economic powerhouses.”
and she says in reply to a comment: “What I found even more surprising was learning that US government (as an occupying power) wrote the Japanese and German constitutions incorporating the Second Bill of Rights.”
While they argue about rubbish in parliament, Australia is the only OECD country to not show improvement over the last two years in jobs, economic growth, productivity, balance of trade, wealth and debt. – in 5 areas we have gone backwards.
The data confirms Australia’s economy has worsened significantly since they replaced the discredited Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey in September.
Debt has increased at a higher rate. Actual employment, measured by hours worked per person per month, has fallen. December’s trade deficit at negative $3,524 million is in the four worst in Australia’s history. Wages are rising at the lowest rate since the GFC in 2009.
Morrison has changed his mind on GST, negative gearing, superannuation tax concessions, tobacco tax, bracket creep, and the backpackers tax – all in 6 months.
So what is Parliament doing? Arguing about Senate voting reform and the Safe Schools Coalition and what date the budget will be delivered.
Oy vey.
It is still a huge tree, even though Peter just cut off about a dozen huge leaves. Why did he have to cut off some more of the leaves? Well, we had some problems with water coming through the roof onto the bathroom heating-lights! This was the other night after we have had a few horrendous downpours. So the next morning (that was yesterday) he looked at the roof to find out whether there were some lose tiles. To his satisfaction all the tiles seemed to be in the right position. However some huge, wet branches of the palmtree were hugging the spot of the roof where the water had come through.
Peter decided all these branches needed cutting off. He set to work straight away. My foot was pretty sore again that morning. Peter realized that I needed to rest it. But he asked me to come out with him anyway to keep him company. He set up two chairs for me, one to sit on, the other one for putting up my legs. I felt quite comfortable sitting there and took some photos while Peter was working, working, working. It took him only about one hour, and the job was finished. I was amazed how quickly he was able to cut all the leaves into small pieces to place them in the council’s garden refuse bin. The bin is outside right now at the kerb for collection for today all our bins are out for rubbish and garden refuse collection.
By the way, we think that unfortunately this whole palm-tree has to go soon for apart from the large leaves growing across our roof again and again it is causing unacceptable damage to our backyard fence. It has just grown much too huge. We never thought it would become that big.
Here are all the photos I took yesterday from where I was sitting on my chair:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel was born in the town of Hanover on 16 March 1750. She was the eighth child and fourth daughter of Isaac Herschel and his wife, Anna Ilse Moritzen. Isaac became a bandmaster in the Guards, was away with his regiment for substantial periods, and suffered ill-health after the battle of Dettingen in 1743.[2]
At the age of ten, Caroline was struck with typhus, which stunted her growth, so that she never grew past four-foot three.[1] Her family assumed that she would never marry and her mother felt it was best for her to train to be a house servant. Her father wished her to receive an education, but her mother opposed this. Her father sometimes took advantage of her mother’s absence to teach her directly or include her in her brother’s lessons. Caroline was allowed to learn millinery and dress-making and worked hard at various types of fancy-work, with a view to someday supporting herself.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Herschel
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In 1846, at the age of 96, she was awarded a Gold Medal for Science by the King of Prussia, conveyed to her by Alexander von Humboldt, “in recognition of the valuable services rendered to Astronomy by you, as the fellow-worker of your immortal brother, Sir William Herschel, by discoveries, observations, and laborious calculations”.
Herschel was an extremely intelligent and insightful person. Her quotes are celebrated, her are some of the most poignant that celebrate her birthday, via 10 Best Quotes:
We do not judge great art. It judges us.
If men had to do their vile work without the assistance of woman and the stimulant of strong drink they would be obliged to be more divine and less brutal.
I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys.
As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.
Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.
One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.
http://usawatchdog.com/we-dont-know-how-bad-secret-obama-trade-deal-really-is-ellen-brown/
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
June 24, 2015
Attorney and public banking expert Ellen Brown says the recent Obama trade deal is bad news. Brown contends, “We don’t even know how bad it is. All we know we got out of WikiLeaks. It’s all secret. They are negotiating what would be called a treaty which should require a two-thirds vote under the Constitution. They are negotiating it for “fast-track” and it is completely secret. . . . These documents are supposed to be kept classified for four years after this thing passes. How is that even possible? There are two other agreements that are coming down the pipe that are also covered by “fast-track,” which means they go directly to an up or down vote. Only get a brief time to look at it. They don’t get to use filibusters. They don’t get to debate. Besides the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) which is bad enough because what we know of it is horrible, there is the Trans-Atlantic Agreement which is similar to the TPP with Pacific Rim countries. There’s another one that we only just heard about which is the TiSA, which is the Trade in Services Agreement. This covers 80% of the American economy and all sorts of services, including financial services, which means banking. So, we can’t regulate banking anymore, and that is basically what it means.”
So, instead of getting a government “Of the people, by the people and for the people,” we are getting a government of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations. Brown contends, “That is totally correct. It is alarming what is happening. Corporations totally run our government. We think this is for the benefit of the American people, but it is for the benefit of the large American corporations, and they’re not even American corporations. They are large international corporations. These corporations can sue us, our local governments for trying to protect the people against whatever they want to destroy—our economy, our environment, our jobs.”
Obama’s secret trade deals greatly helps out big banks. Brown says, “It looks to me the banking system is in control. That’s where all the big money comes from, and that’s where the two big parties got their money. It’s been this way ever since Rockefeller and Morgan back then in 1900—the Democrats and the Republicans. Brown goes on to say, “The goal here is “they” want to own everything and rent it back to us. So, law is no longer a way to protect the people. Law is now to protect the corporations and serve the corporations.”
Brown does not give up hope and says, “To me, the only hopeful thing about all this is that it is so outrageous and so many people are upset that you hear the word treason bantered about. It is becoming obvious that neither party is representing us ‘we the people.’ People are coming together from the left and the right to oppose what we got, and hopefully to organize something else like a whole new movement. . . . a movement for the people that supports the people and defends the people instead of the big corporations.
Join Greg Hunter as he goes One-on-One with Ellen Brown, creator of The Web of Debt Blog.
(There is much more in the video interview.)
After the Interview:
Ellen Brown is a prolific writer and posts regularly on her Web of Debt blog. Her work, which she posts for free, can be found on
ellenbrown.com.
https://auntyuta.com/2016/03/13/sanders-campaign-gets-sparks-and-sparkle/
https://bryanhemming.wordpress.com/2016/03/12/sanders-campaign-gets-sparks-and-sparkle/
The above is a link to Bryan Hemming’s post that I reblogged yesterday.
Now I googled Tulsi Gabbard and found an article in The Guardian from February 28. I find this article explains in a few words what Tulsi Gabbard’s position is right now in supporting Bernie Sanders.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/28/tulsi-gabbard-quits-dnc-support-bernie-sanders
Above is a link to the article in The Guardian that I copied and you can find below here:
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard quits DNC to support Bernie Sanders
Former vice-chair is an Iraq war veteran whose words come as a boost to the Vermont senator, who faces criticism over his lack of foreign policy experience.
Tulsi Gabbard: ‘It’s important for us to recognize the necessity to have a commander-in-chief who exercises good judgment.’
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Representative Tulsi Gabbard resigned from her post as vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee on Sunday, in order to support Bernie Sanders in his run for the party’s presidential nomination.
Gabbard made the announcement on Sunday, appearing as a panel member on the NBC show Meet the Press.
“I think it’s most important for us, as we look at our choices as to who our next commander-in-chief will be, is to recognize the necessity to have a commander in chief who has foresight, who exercises good judgment,” she said.
Sanders suffered a serious loss to Hillary Clinton in Saturday’s South Carolina primary, with only 26% to Clinton’s 74% of the vote. Afterwards, speaking from Minnesota, where he flew from Texas to concentrate on states staging Super Tuesday primaries this week, he vowed to continue to carry the battle to Clinton.
“In politics on a given night sometimes you win, sometimes you lose,” he said. “Tonight we lost. I congratulate Secretary Clinton on her very strong victory. On Tuesday over 800 delegates are at stake and we intend to win many, many of them.”
He was more downbeat during his own appearances on the Sunday talk shows, telling the same NBC show: “Well, we got decimated. It was pathetic, from our perspective. But by the way, the glimmer of positive news for our group was we won the 29 and younger.”
Gabbard, 34, an Iraq war veteran and now representative for Hawaii, became the fourth member of Congress to endorse Sanders. She elaborated on her decision, by saying it stemmed from Sanders’ cautious foreign policy.
“As a veteran and as a soldier I’ve seen first-hand the true cost of war,” she said.
“I served in a medical unit during my first deployment, where every single day I saw first hand the very high human cost of that war. I see it in my friends who now, a decade after we’ve come home, are still struggling to get out of a black hole.”
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“I think it’s most important for us,” she continued, “to recognize the necessity to have a commander-in-chief who has foresight, exercises good judgment, who looks beyond the consequences, looks at the consequences of the actions they’re looking to take, before they take those actions, so we don’t continue to find ourselves in these failures that have resulted in chaos in the Middle East and so much loss of life.”
Gabbard’s words will come as a boost for Sanders, who has faced criticism from Clinton and questioning from the media over his perceived lack of foreign policy experience.
On the campaign trail and the debate stage, the senator has pointed to his vote against the Iraq war – which Clinton, then a senator for New York, supported – as evidence of his pragmatism and caution on such key foreign policy issues.
He also highlighted another, more contemporary difference of opinion with the former secretary of state on Sunday: US military intervention in Libya, which Clinton strongly supported during the revolution against dictator Muammar Gaddafi there.
“These are terrible dictators, but you’ve got to be thinking about the day after,” Sanders said on NBC. “I would’ve done it differently if I were president of the United States.”
Pressed on how he would have acted, the senator said he “would’ve worked more patiently. I know it was a difficult situation, but you can’t just go thinking about regime change.”
He agreed, however, with President Barack Obama’s decision not to try to create a no-fly zone over Syria, another proposal supported by Clinton. Obama and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff have shied from this form of intervention for fears of entanglement and “unintended consequences”.
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I think Tulsi Gabbard is a very interesting person.
Caricature – Bryan Hemming © 2016
On February 12th this year Dan Froomkin, the influential Washington Editor of the Intercept, used an article slamming Hillary Clinton’s slavish adherence the doctrines of Henry Kissinger to solicit likely names for a ‘dream foreign policy team’. Taking up the challenge, I dashed off an email expressing grave doubts as to whether there were anywhere near enough politicians in the U.S. political establishment possessing sufficient knowledge of foreign affairs to form a whole team.
Having said that, I do believe there is one politician eminently qualified to lead a dream foreign policy team, and she might even get to do it.
Using those words Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard resigned from her post as vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee on February 28th to endorse the candidacy of Bernie Sanders. Announcing her…
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