[Lee Adler]

The self-interest of the alcoholic is to keep drinking. Is this truly in his best interests? The answer illuminates the pathology of power in America. If we ignore the lip-service showered on "reform," we find that there is really only one strate...

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[HYPERTlGER]

Taking more than you give...is the exponential function...it starts out slow but then inflates to infinity.

the lower the initial growth rate the longer it takes to reach the blastoff point.

At 1% growth or yeild...it would have taken the USA 500 years to inflate like it did the past 66 years...

From 1945 to 2008 the average yield rate was 7.9%...it's been 1% since then...and that is only because for some odd reason the FED revised all it's numbers back to 2006 and added 1.2 Trillion to the total credit market debt in December.

Without that refiguring...the growth rate or yield has been basically zero since 2008.

But it does support the weak recovery social engineering.

[qqqbear]

From the above link- now do you understand the "right"?
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"As this awakening begins, a divergence between the definitions of self-interest by the Power Elites (financial and political) and the productive classes begins to open. This is extremely dangerous to the Power Elites, who are fundamentally parasitical and predatory: their wealth and power all flow from the labor, taxes, debt service and passivity/complicity of the productive classes.

The Power Elites’ time-honored strategy to protect their own wealth and grip on power has three components: one is to pursue a strategy of pervasive, ceaseless propaganda to persuade the productive classes that the system is sound, fair and working for them; the second is to fund diversionary “bread and circuses” for the potentially troublesome lower classes, and the third is to harden the fiefdoms of power and wealth into an aristocracy that is impervious to the protests of debt-serfs and laborers below.

In addition to “the system is working for you” social control myth, the wealth/power aristocracy also invokes various fear-based social control myths: external enemies are threatening us all, so ignore your debt-serfdom and powerlessness, etc.

In the ideal Power Elite scenario, a theocracy combines faith and State: not only is it illegal to resist the Aristocracy, you will suffer eternal damnation for even thinking about it."

[qqqbear]

qqqbear, on 10 February 2012 - 08:21 AM, said:

From the above link- now do you understand the "right"?
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In the ideal Power Elite scenario, a theocracy combines faith and State: not only is it illegal to resist the Aristocracy, you will suffer eternal damnation for even thinking about it."

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It won't be about jobs, taxes, nor the economy (but it will still be focused on "below the belt").
Here comes the Church!
http://www.latimes.c...0,7084828.story

[HYPERTlGER]

The top knows Truth...The bottom are ignorant of it.

As long as the top can keep the bottom ignorant of Truth...You will be slaves to lies

Once you know Truth...It becomes impossible to believe lies.

That is all the top produces...lies...that all below slave till the day they die producing the money to buy.

[shooter]

HYPERTlGER, on 11 February 2012 - 03:56 PM, said:

The top knows Truth...The bottom are ignorant of it.

As long as the top can keep the bottom ignorant of Truth...You will be slaves to lies

Once you know Truth...It becomes impossible to believe lies.

That is all the top produces...lies...that all below slave till the day they die producing the money to buy.

Load of crap....just as many at the "top" are delusional true believers in this fantasy system... They are not omniscient or omnipotent....they just played the unsustainable game better....

[qqqbear]

qqqbear, on 10 February 2012 - 10:20 AM, said:

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It won't be about jobs, taxes, nor the economy (but it will still be focused on "below the belt").
Here comes the Church!
http://www.latimes.c...0,7084828.story

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And from the other "party of no"
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February 11, 2012
Bishops Reject White House’s New Plan on Contraception
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN

The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops have rejected a compromise on birth control coverage that President Obama offered on Friday and said they would continue to fight the president’s plan to find a way for employees of Catholic hospitals, universities and service agencies to receive free contraceptive coverage in their health insurance plans, without direct involvement or financing from the institutions.

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops — which has led the opposition to the plan — said in a statement late Friday that the solution offered by the White House to quell a political furor was “unacceptable and must be corrected” because it still infringed on the religious liberty and conscience of Catholics.

The bishops’ decision to rebuff the compromise means that “religious freedom” will continue to be a rallying cry for some Catholics who have heard it preached from the pulpit for the last three weeks, for evangelical Christians on the religious right, for Republican candidates on the campaign trail and for members of Congress who are supporting a legislative fix on Capitol Hill.

Administration officials said the White House had never expected to get the bishops’ support, given their absolute opposition to contraception, and was surprised when the initial statement of the bishops conference on Friday was noncommittal and went so far as to call the president’s modification a step in the right direction.

Mr. Obama said that the compromise would take the Catholic institutions out of the equation by relieving them from either paying for coverage for contraceptives or providing any referral to their employees for the coverage. Instead, insurance companies would be required to pay for the contraceptives, and to arrange it. The insurers will agree, the White House said, because it is more expensive for them to pay for pregnancies than to pay for contraceptives.

Churches and houses of worship that object to birth control coverage are already exempted. The compromise applies to primarily Catholic institutions, such as hospitals, universities and charities, that employ and serve large numbers of non-Catholics.

The bishops said the plan offered insufficient protection for their institutions: “In the case where the employee and insurer agree to add the objectionable coverage, that coverage is still provided as a part of the objecting employer’s plan, financed in the same way as the rest of the coverage offered by the objecting employer. This, too, raises serious moral concerns.” The Obama administration plans to hold a series of meetings in the coming days and will invite the bishops and other religious leaders to collaborate on developing the new policy, said an administration official who was not authorized to speak on the record.

“I guess we’ll try to treat that constructively,” said Richard M. Doerflinger, associate director of pro-life activities at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. “But within the meantime we also have to explore other avenues, and there are two other branches of government that may treat our concerns more seriously.” The bishops themselves said contraception was not an issue because little boys and young men never get pregnant.


http://www.nytimes.c...agewanted=print