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  168.  Brian Gann  That is just Republican BS talking points. The FSLN came to dominate the junta, Robelo and Chamorro resigned, and in 1981 Ortega became the coordinator of the Junta.[28] As the only member of the FSLN National Directorate in the Junta, he was the effective leader of the country. The FSLN embarked upon an ambitious programme of social reform upon attaining power. 5 million acres of land were redistributed to about 100,000 families, a literacy drive was launched, and health improvements were carried out which got rid of polio and reduced other diseases.[29] The Sandinista nationalization efforts mostly affected banks and industries owned by the Somoza family.[30] More than half of all farms, businesses, and industries remained in private hands, as the revolutionary government still wanted to preserve a mixed economy and support private sector investment.[30] The Superior Council of Private Enterprise (COSEP) opposed the Sandinistas’ economic reform.[31] The main organization of Nicaraguan big business was composed of prosperous families from the Pacific coast cities, who dominated commerce and banking.[32] Ortega took a very hard line against opposition to his policies: On February 21, 1981, the Sandinista army killed 7 Miskito Indians and wounded 17.[33] Forced displacement has also been documented to have occurred with the native population: 10,000 individuals had been moved by 1982.[33] Thousands of Indians took refuge in Honduras and 14,000 were imprisoned in Nicaragua. Anthropologist Gilles Bataillon termed this "politics of ethnocide" in Nicaragua.[34] The Indians formed two rebel groups – the Misura and Misurasata. They were joined in the north by Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN) and in the south by former Sandinistas and peasantry who under the leadership of Edén Pastora were resisting forced collectivization.[33] The US likes to play to both ways, they go in and murder, bomb and disrupt countries and kill civilians and then when the local democratically elected rebels take over and have to defend their country from American trained guerillas and thugs, they start talking like they care about civilian lives.
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  200. I think you are close, theocratic regimes, yes, but also any regime that has a group with all the money, all the power and all the answers. China, Russia ... and sadly our own country is starting to be like that in some ways - and that is why I supported Bernie Sanders so early in this race. He is the only one who seems to be able to see and articulate this. I just don't know why some of you have such a boner for hating religions. I just ignore religion for the most part. So do most Europeans these days. For some reason America is the last developed country where we have the threat of these fundamentalist religious nuts ... but I do not see them taking over. The same trend is happening in the US of people who are religious becoming secularized. I would question that secular socialist democracy is the answer for certain parts of the world. I would not hesitate to call it the goal, but I think our experience in Iraq and with other countries seems to indicate it is impossible to bring secular socialist democracy to people who do not want it or do not understand it. The only success the US has ever had with this kind of nation building was with Germany and Japan post-WWII also South Korea after the Korean war. But both of those countries were completely decimated and ready to have a better system. Draw whatever conclusion you want from that example. Another problem is that Americans know f-all about history and what happened in these countries. We are much too willing to use too much force, and in some cases not willing to use enough force. I remember before 2000 where many people were talking about what the Taliban was doing to people in Afghanistan, and blowing up ancient statues. If we had a civilized world something would have been done to stop them as we have done something to stop ISIS. Now the whole area is a mess and people do not know what to do and have nowhere to go.
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  209. Edward Solis > how do we change the Islamic world? Ultimately we do have to realize this is a war with an infantile, selfish, culture that has chosen willfully to do evil now that the world is electrified and we all know the score, we all know better, we all know that we all share this world together. So, the change is basically the same change we offer to ex-convicts, behave or be restrained from harming others.  Once that milestone of realization is reached, it becomes basically a war, a clash of wills. What is happening in the West in the last 50 years or so has been a cultural decline, otherwise we would not even be arguing this.  The parallel problem is - how does the West maintain its cultural hygiene as well?, and that question is almost as important.  It is clear that Islam, the ability to threaten people for what they say or think in a religious but any context - to try to co-exist with that is death for the West. As far as Israel, I let Israel figure out how best to deal with a deadly threat towards Israel, but the US ought to be far more allied than aloof with Israel, and Europe too.  The complaints of racism and prejudice are not the same as our grandfather's versions of racism. The idea of non-reformed Islam can erupt in any of these countries, it is an uncontrollable force once started because to defend against it always escalates to war.  Bottom line is bullets, it is up to the "criminal" whether the police has to shoot them or not, that is something simple we do not seem to understand.
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  212. Please feel free not to read or reply to any of my posts, you have nothing to offer. Do you know how many times "this country is not a democracy" is stated every day - I am sure you do, and I am sure you know it means nothing - so, that makes you a proven idiot with nothing to offer, and a worthy recipient of some abuse to shake you up a bit and perhaps if possible force you to review and think. Another thing idiots do is to presume expertise, such as your ... again, idiotic, statement on Venezuela. You don't know anything about V. In terms of what was going on with V. elected Chavez did a lot of good for the majority of V-lans that the previous government ignored, abused and killed. I guess that makes you happy - idiot again. If a country cannot withstand democracy without falling apart it deserves to fall apart, not to continue to be a fascist totalitarian state that ignores human rights. There was centuries of abuse and injustice in Venezuela, and the country's economy was totally based on oil and foreign exploitation. It had nothing to do with democracy being bad ... you idiot. Now ... the other thing you did was to try to cherry pick a BS example to prove your idiot point, like idiots do. You are clearly a subscriber to the idea that if there was direct democracy the people would vote themselves everything until the country fell apart. Well, that has never been the case anywhere and it is not the case in Venezuela. Any other bright examples, or do you have to look up in the book or Rush some other dumbass answer or challenge. Please, don't bother though, I know I am wasting my breath with an idiot like you.
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  213. The same could be said of capitalism. after wwii the mode of capitalism the us had worked well because it was broad based, but over time the rich elites have swelled by political and government subsidies while strangling the poor, working and middle class to the point that they have not gained anything in 30 years -- to be conservative. your models are total bullshit propaganda. your basic argument is that based on your authority if the us had more socialism the country would fall apart. you claim whatever your bullshit idiot story is - but it would lead to catastrophe. Well, it is the US that is the catastrophe, and the rest of the developed world that is better off. they have better education, better health care, as much or more freedom, better wages despite higher taxes, better living conditions, less inequality. so, then your idiotic kind shifts your argument to saying they are doing fine now, but they will have hell to pay later. so, on the strength of the autority of your non-expert claim - your idiot prediction, you propose to deny democracy to whole nation so you can enforce the will of the right minority of this country that has been gaining and gaining and cutting their own taxes and subsidizing their own lives and companies while they rip everyone else off ... and want to prevent even the US Constitution and political system from working for the people by removing any democratic element. I'd call you and your kind a clear and present domestic threat to the constitution that you no doubt pretend to swear allegience to so you can get in and hack it to death, The system as it is now has become an abomination and is in desperate need of democratic reform.
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  244. > Give every poltician (including candidates who failed to be elected) a timeslice proportional to the number of votes the received. Still the same problem we have now, and that is that rich interests like the Koch Brothers, for example, have enough money to hire expert scientists to deconstruct the system and find advantages. I like the government funding part, but the proportional representation part is problematic. PBS does a great job with their NewsHour show, and the BBC works ever better, look a the BBC show Question Time. The issue specificallt with America today is over-representation to the point of manipulation and propaganda of the far right - perhaps already to the point that the country is broken beyond repair, so that no plan would ever be implmented anyway. I think taking money out of politics would work better. Also putting back the Fairness Doctrine that worked well at the time. Breaking the propaganda cycle is key and being able to have an opposition voice speak directly against any given point of view right at the time was a good balance. The problem was in the 80's when the Republicans saw this worked and the killed it claiming it was against Free Speech. The implication there is the Free Speech is being allowed to present one's point of view without rebuttal or any check .. clearly corruption at the time to demand the rght to shut other people up as a consequence of right-wing free speech - but then that is the whole problem with the right-wing, they do not respect any rules or government, yet they want to demand a controlling part in whatever government there is so they can undermine it.
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  256.  @AtheistEve  You know, you keep coming back at me with the stupid fucking dumbass quotes ... you know what we are are talking about here ... American media ... their is almost no substance in it at all, no truth, and very little to be gained by watching it ... so ... if a politician actually wants to be heard, to get some information out, they have to have a strategy and a point, and a way to deliver it. This lady did not. What I am saying is not only a legitimate complaint about IO, it is the truth, and your response ought to be, gee, i did not think of it that way, you are right, unless she learns from her mistakes she will not make a good congressperson, or a good media model for a muslim. Of course, now that we have been through this cycle one or two times with Ilhan Omar in the media, it doesn't appear that learning or changing is her thing - she seems programmed to always make anti-Israel statements, and attack American history and policy. If I take the time to figure out what she is saying and allowing for her poor communications skills, and uncontrolled emotions, on the issues critical of America she is not far off. There is plenty of criticism that can be made of America and Israel, if you baseline it to what goes on in the world and allow for history - which she does not. She is not the person to make these kinds of statements, there is no point and she ought to see what it is she can get done in Congress besides be the anti-semitism lightning rod. This is the last time I am going to dignify your floundering comments with a response ... you can tell how I feel and why in the comments I have already made, anything more you say can just be trolling.
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  304. VK ... Under our current laws and values there is really no way to get money out of politics. Especially with the Supreme Court the way it is one speech. We are pretty much screwed if we play by the rules, that is just the way it is, the criminals have the whole bag locked up and there is no way to attack that does not allow them time and means to rebuff the attack. Americans have been stupid and may have lost the whole country at this point. I think if it is true that money is speech, then we need to take the money away from those who would interfere with elections. WE need to re-fund our government. Raise the progressive tax and knock down the wealth and power of those would try to OWN the system. We need a maximum wage, and a maximum amount of wealth, some kind of wealth surtax to prevent the creation of super-rich people who own the media like Rupert Murdoch. That would be illegal in most countries. The US is a new breed of fascism and that means it is just pretending to be the American of old that we all grew up in. Some still pretend, but it is not the same. The way to take it back without violence is to demand that those very richest people and companies serve the public interest first and again. Only when there is not a financial crisis will the threat of this Republicans takeover be gone for good. Otherwise they have been working on this for 40 years, they are not going to stop this financial crisis from killing all social programs and turning the US into another Russia or China ... and the rest of the world better really worry then because one of the three will soon be coming after you.
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  350.  @jshepard152  I am sure you know nothing of Bernie Sanders' career and accomplishments. What has Trump done by the way? Elected by the state of Vermont 8 times to serve in the House of Representatives. The longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history. He was dubbed the “amendment king” in the House of Representatives for passing more amendments than any other member of Congress. Ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee. Former student organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Led the first ever civil rights sit-in in Chicago history to protest segregated housing. In 1963, Bernie Sanders participated in MLK’s Civil Rights March. One of only 2 sitting US Senators to have heard MLK’s “I have a Dream Speech” in person in the march on Washington, DC. Former professor of political science at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and at Hamilton College. Former mayor of Burlington, VT. In a stunning upset in 1981, Sanders won the mayoral race in Burlington, Vermont’s largest city. He shocked the city’s political establishment by defeating a six-term, local machine mayor. Burlington is now reported to be one of the most livable cities in the nation. Co-founded the Congressional Progressive Caucus and chaired the group for its first 8 years. Both the NAACP and the NHLA (National Hispanic Leadership Agenda) have given Sanders 100% voting scores during his tenure in the Senate. Earns a D- from the NRA. 1984: Mayor Sanders established the Burlington Community Land Trust, the first municipal housing land-trust in the country for affordable housing. The project becomes a model emulated throughout the world. It later wins an award from Jack Kemp-led HUD. 1991: one of a handful in Congress to vote against authorizing US military force in Iraq. “I have a real fear that the region is not going to be more peaceful or more stable after the war,” he said at the time. 1992: Congress passes Sanders’ first signed piece of legislation to create the National Program of Cancer Registries. A Reader’s Digest article calls the law “the cancer weapon America needs most.” All 50 states now run registries to help cancer researchers gain important insights. November 1993: Sanders votes against the Clinton-era North American Free Trade Agreement. Returning from a tour of factories in Mexico, Sanders says: “If NAFTA passes, corporate profits will soar because it will be even easier than now for American companies to flee to Mexico and hire workers there for starvation wages.” July 1996: Sanders is one of only 67 (out of 435, 15%) votes against the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act, which denied federal benefits to same-sex couples legally married. Sanders urged the Supreme Court to throw out the law, which it did in a landmark 2013 ruling – some 17 years later. July 1999: Standing up against the major pharmaceutical companies, Sanders becomes the first member of Congress to personally take seniors across the border to Canada to buy lower-cost prescription drugs. The congressman continues his bus trips to Canada with a group of breast cancer patients the following April. These brave women are able to purchase their medications in Canada for almost one-tenth the price charged in the States. August 1999: An overflow crowd of Vermonters packs a St. Michael’s College town hall meeting hosted by Sanders to protest an IBM plan to cut older workers’ pensions by as much as 50 percent. CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and The New York Times cover the event. After IBM enacts the plan, Sanders works to reverse the cuts, passing a pair of amendments to prohibit the federal government from acting to overturn a federal district court decision that ruled that IBM’s plan violated pension age discrimination laws. Thanks to Sanders’ efforts, IBM agreed to a $320 million legal settlement with some 130,000 IBM workers and retirees. November 1999: About 10 years before the 2008 Wall Street crash spins the world economy into a massive recession, Sanders votes “no” on a bill to undo decades of financial regulations enacted after the Great Depression. “This legislation,” he predicts at the time, “will lead to fewer banks and financial service providers, increased charges and fees for individual consumers and small businesses, diminished credit for rural America and taxpayer exposure to potential losses should a financial conglomerate fail. It will lead to more mega-mergers, a small number of corporations dominating the financial service industry and further concentration of power in our country.” The House passed the bill 362-57 over Sanders’ objection. October 2001: Sanders votes against the USA Patriot Act. “All of us want to protect the American people from terrorist attacks, but in a way that does not undermine basic freedoms,” Sanders says at the time. He subsequently votes against reauthorizing the law in 2006 and 2011. October 2002: Sanders votes against the Bush-Cheney war in Iraq. He warns at the time that an invasion could “result in anti-Americanism, instability and more terrorism.” Hillary Clinton votes in favor of it. November 2006: Sanders defeats Vermont’s richest man, Rich Tarrant, to be elected to the U.S. Senate. Sanders, running as an Independent, is endorsed by the Vermont Democratic Party and supported by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. December 2007: Sanders’ authored energy efficiency and conservation grant program passes into law. He later secures $3.2 billion in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for the grant program. September 2008: Thanks to Sanders’ efforts, funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program funding doubles, helping millions of low-income Americans heat their homes in winter. February 2009: Sanders works with Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley to pass an amendment to an economic recovery bill preventing Wall Street banks that take taxpayer bailouts from replacing laid-off U.S. workers with exploited and poorly-paid foreign workers. December 2009: Sanders passes language in the Affordable Care Act to allow states to apply for waivers to implement pilot health care systems by 2017. The legislation allows states to adopt more comprehensive systems to cover more people at lower costs. March 2010: President Barack Obama signs into law the Affordable Care Act with a major Sanders provision to expand federally qualified community health centers. Sanders secures $12.5 billion in funding for the program which now serves more than 25 million Americans. Another $1.5 billion from a Sanders provision went to the National Health Service Corps for scholarships and loan repayment for doctors and nurses who practice in under-served communities. July 2010: Sanders works with Republican Congressman Ron Paul in the House to pass a measure as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform bill to audit the Federal Reserve, revealing how the independent agency gave $16 trillion in near zero-interest loans to big banks and businesses after the 2008 economic collapse. March 2013: Sanders, now chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, and backed by seniors, women, veterans, labor unions and disabled Americans, leads a successful effort to stop a “chained-CPI” proposal supported by Congressional Republicans and the Administration to cut Social Security and disabled veterans’ benefits. April 2013: Sanders introduces legislation to break up major Wall Street banks so large that the collapse of one could send the overall economy into a downward spiral. August 2014: A bipartisan $16.5 billion veterans bill written by Sen. Sanders, Sen. John McCain and Rep. Jeff Miller is signed into law by President Barack Obama. The measure includes $5 billion for the VA to hire more doctors and health professionals to meet growing demand for care. January 2015: Sanders takes over as ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, using the platform to fight for his economic agenda for the American middle class. January 2015: Sanders votes against the Keystone XL pipeline, which would allow multinational corporation TransCanada to transport dirty tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. March 2015: Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced legislation to expand benefits and strengthen the retirement program for generations to come. The Social Security Expansion Act was filed on the same day Sanders and other senators received the petitions signed by 2 million Americans, gathered by the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. September 2015: Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and Rep. Bobby L. Rush (D-Ill.) today introduced bills to ban private prisons, reinstate the federal parole system and eliminate quotas for the number of immigrants held in detention. January 2016: Sanders Places Hold on FDA Nominee Dr. Robert Califf because of his close ties to the pharmaceutical industry and lack of commitment to lowering drug prices. There is no reason to believe that he would make the FDA work for ordinary Americans, rather than just the CEOs of pharmaceutical companies.
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