Comments by "kd1s" (@kd1s) on "The Real News Network" channel.

  1. Actually I think the USPS should offer full raft banking services. Think about this, heavily regulated and available everywhere. Savings, checking, debit, credit. Home loans, car loans - the whole nine yards. Whatever interest gained would revert to a quasi-public post office. 
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  2. The question is, how do we change the current paradigm? I'll tell you one way, the African American community needs to step up and run for office and then pass laws that severely curtail the ability of the police to abuse the African American community. That's the only way I see it changing for the better.
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  3. Wilkerson nails it. He's singing like a canary. Now it's been said what the Tea Baggers/Tea Partiers really are. Its the wingnut brigade. And Cheney - what a piece of work that guy is. Explains why whenever I run across a clip of him I want to punch my screen out.
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  4. Great post mortem of the Bush administration. In other words what we thought about Bush was true. Interesting to have that confirmed.
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  5. I wish they'd just come right out and say it, connect the dots if you will. He almost does it when he talks about selling arms to India. It's corporate influence and power that dominates U.S. foreign policy. It has for the last hundred plus years.
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  6. I wish I had the money - I'd fund surface to air missiles and laser weaponry for the protesters. Take the damned police helicopter out of the situation and cut the riot shields down. But seriously - the right of the public to assemble for redress of public grievance is being suppressed here by the cops. Its time to drag them into the courtroom.
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  7. One thing these big business owners (Stockholders) don't realize is that you can only milk the golden calf so much. Dismantle Social Security, Unemployment, and welfare and food stamp programs and WATCH what happens. First you'll see an uptick in property crimes. Then when people organize, we're one of the most WELL armed people on the planet. It's going to be ugly.
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  8. What really iritates me is when police are used as an instrument of corporate interest.
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  9. A good point is brought up regarding energy use in the U.S. It isn't because Europe or Japan doesn't heat/cool their homes, but instead it's because of our extensive road network and the amount of single passenger vehicles. That's the biggest consumer of fossil fuel.
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  10. Bring on a depression? I've always said the corporate interests will one day bite their own hand because if the wage earners don't have the cash, they won't buy the products. It's pretty simple.
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  11. Police long ago lost all credibility when they showed themselves to be instruments of corporatism. Call them what they are, pigs!
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  12. Recall too, this country experienced unprecedented growth with the rise of the middle class right after WW II.
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  13. All very valid points made in this video. Taxing the Wall Street transactions is a good start. And while we're at it, I think we should penalize the banks who fail to issue loans. Make it more risky to hold on to the money than to put it out there.
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  14. Look at what's happening in Atlanta, GA right now. And little publicized is the fact that the northeast U.S. is under drought conditions too.
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  15. And I can tell you where most of the stimulus funds went in my state. It didn't really create any jobs here per se. What it did was purchase nearly 100 hybrid buses for RIPTA. It funded projects like sidewalk replacement, signal replacement, etc. But it was all one shot.
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  16. Israel is also acknowledged as a state by Egypt, Syria and Jordan to name a few.
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  17. How I wish I had the money to get this video. I'll have to wait until it pops up on the net I suppose.
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  18. Very interesting. Special interests are codewords for corporate power. Most PAC's are part of Corporate America.
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  19. So it is obvious that the intelligence was fixed to justify our entry into Iraq. Anyone with half a brain could smell that one a mile away. So why don't the Dems seize on this, and why haven't Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and that entire cast not made been made to answer for this?
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  20. Hells Bells - the entirety of the price of a gallon of fuel is manipulated from pumping it from the ground to pumping it at the gas station. In the U.S. in particular they restrain refining capacity to deliberately drive up the price.
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  21. Ambassadors for Christ in uniform and full battle gear. You have to wonder exactly which part of Christianity they don't understand.
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  22. One question that comes to mind though - what happens to all the cops that will get laid off if we implement as a health problem as opposed to criminal justice problem? We need a massive economic reboot in the United States. Yes, bring some manufacturing back here.
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  23. Consider for a moment who originally armed the warlords. It was the U.S., remember too that Russia got it's own ass handed to it in Afghanistan.
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  24. If the police and military join the people, Mubarak is done. Stick a fork in him already.
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  25. It's simple, Kevin Martin stands to profit from allowing more consolidation. The FCC has never been independent. I'm for an overhaul of the FCC. Make it a lottery system and draw two commission members from each of the bureaus at random who meet age criteria. That would stop this bullshit.
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  26. Corporations have ALWAYS been the problem in the United States. So long as the notion that corporations have the same rights as flesh and blood humans is to me ludicrous. A corporation outlasts a human life, doesn't act as a social entity, it's an artifice.
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  27. Unbelievable once again. The more I hear Wilkerson talk the more I say why didn't he come forward 5 or 6 years ago? Ok, so we could have had a re-unified Korea, diplomatic relations with Iran... what the hell else did Bush & Cheney screw us out of?
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  28. I've said it all along, we need STRONG regulation of the lending industry and this would span the credit cards to car loans and home loans. And Slobomotion is correct. The probability of them being able to prove the debt is slim.
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  29. @ytgv3fc7 Yes, I understand exactly what you are saying. The Federal Reserve as it exists is just a cartel of the big banks. It's formations was heralded as being the end of the bust-boom cycle prevalent in the 19th century. But it has done virtually NOTHING to prevent those same busts/booms in the 20th and 21st centuries either. It's a parasitic organization.
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  30. I've never been stopped and frisked. However were it to happen I would first tell the office I wish to know his/her probable cause followed by them stating their name, rank, and badge number. Stop and Frisk violates the 4th Amendment of the United States Constitution and probably violates a number of states constitutions as well.
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  31. Here's how I see it: Re-establish the WPA, CCC etc. Raise the minimum wage to $14.80 effectively doubling it. People don't understand the multiplicative effect of money. Those now making double will spend more money on other things, increasing employment and wages which than get spent again. Essentially the consumer is king.
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  32. Kudos! I'm happy to see unions rising up again. Lets just end the corruption in some of them and I'll be happy.
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  33. There is ALWAYS an aggressor in any conflict. And the fact that the U.S. skirts the requirement of the UN is VERY interesting. So too that of China.
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  34. So why isn't Nabila Ramdani not wearing one on a broadcast? A bit hypocritical don't you think?
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  35. Saudi Arabia is in essence, a charlie foxtrot. They say it at the beginning, it's a feudal society. Not good at all.
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  36. I hate to say this but the police are NOT there to protect the citizens. They are there to protect the political masters, aka corporations.
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  37. So in essence, the South Korean view is to let North Korea implode on itself rather than push the issue. I can see the logic of that.
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  38. Part of it is that other Asian nations like China and Korea are starting to eat into Japan's export sector... cars and electronics. For example, I own to handheld transceivers, one is a Yeasu made in Japan, the other is a KST made in China. And today I drove a Korean built car.
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  39. Screw urge the banks - take them by eminent domain.
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  40. Good that you have love in your heart. I have no love for police when they allow themselves to be used as instruments of corporate abuse.
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  41. At around 7:40, they hadn't had the experience. This is why preservation of institutional knowledge is key. Having worked in state government I've seen what lack of institutional knowledge can do.
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  42. A very succinct view of how corporations have taken all the power from the people.
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  43. But they only get on ballots locally. For example, over the years RI has had the Cool Moose, Green, and now Moderate parties. They never last.
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  44. I agree with Panitch. Nationalize the banks, car industry and air industry. It has been done before. Nationalize to recover then a couple years later, put up for sale. And recall, during WW II the auto industry did a bang up job converting to manufacture of tanks, jeeps, guns and aircraft. They did it before, they can do it again only this time push them to make wind turbines and solar panels.
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  45. @nly8nchz I'd love to see you expand that statement that higher wages would cause less employment. Unfortunately youtube won't let me do a long diatribe but I'll try. Higher wages would mean that the folks would spend more money at other merchants, which means they need more employees, which means the employees make money and spend it at other merchants. It is a multiplicative effect, logarthimic in some respects. But you wouldn't understand that you Reaganite.
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  46. FUD - plain and simple. We need universal health care in the U.S. Obama is in the pocket of the insurance companies sure as shit. I loved Kucinich questioning that idiot psychiatrist though.
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  47. Oh yeah, deregulation! That didn't benefit the consumer, it benefited the corporations. And the Reagan era is what accelerated the process.
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  48. Of course - and around here there aren't ANY remote alleys. If there are they are festooned with cameras.
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  49. Very interesting analysis about the effects of NAFTA. As soon as NAFTA came about I realized who would benefit the most from it. It wasn't going to be the U.S. citizenry, it was going to be corporations who were now unfettered to do business in Canada and Mexico. It's why many of our products now contains labels and directions in English, Spanish and French.
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  50. This is what happens when you set a Leviathan military force upon a populace. You must have absolute control and of course the Bush administration hasn't clue one about that.
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  51. And don't think police here in the United States aren't trying to skirt PC either. They are. You just never really hear much about it.
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  52. How interesting. Essentially I think we're heading more into a depression than a recession.
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  53. Higher minimum wage would mean more money in the market. More money in the market means more jobs, more jobs means more money added to the market. It makes perfect sense. Increase the minimum wage to $10 to $15 an hour.
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  54. The Turks owe a lot of apologies. First it was the Armenians, now the Kurds.
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  55. 15 of 35 is 42% of the investigating cops that were convicted and served time? Yes indeed, there is something seriously wrong with the Mumia Abu Jamal case.
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  56. I wonder what part of "To petition our government for a redress of grievances" the Republicans don't get.
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  57. Well yes - I'm getting into real estate and using cash instead of borrowing. I will use collateral but that's all easy.
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  58. @nly8nchz Ummm.. the trickle down theory is from your boy Ronald Reagan. How's that worked out for us? Not very well. You're confusing the invisible hand of Adam Smith with trickle down too.
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  59. Yes indeed, but have you noticed that none of this gets airplay on MSM channels? It's only sites like RealNews that get the word out. Thankfully I'm a nethead who long ago realized that the MSM has an agenda.
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  60. Some of us lived through Reagan and find the veneration of him to be quite ridiculous. But it is true, you can lay the feet of the Imperial Presidency at the feet of the Reagan Administration.
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  61. The problem is it doesn't matter who we elect. They will ultimately be corrupted by big business throwing cash around. We need to fix the issue with lobbying and the notion that corporations have the same rights as flesh and blood humans. They don't and they shouldn't.
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  62. Have FDR gone along with Hoover the Great Depression would have been the absolute destruction of the U.S. economy.
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  63. I'm very intrigued by what Cohen is saying. We need to take our party back from the corporations.
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  64. Well it's obvious why the Vets for Peace couldn't march in the D.C. Memorial Day Parade. All you have to to do is listen to the sponsors, all prime military contractors. Peace is not in the best interest of the military contractors.
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  65. Moq Tadr should have been killed years ago. He's a Shia cleric who has more power than he should have.
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  66. The U.S. Military when properly staffed and trained is what is known as a Leviathan force. We train our soldiers to break things and kill people. They're very good at that, what with the kill ratio in Iraq 20:1 in U.S. favor. The cleric can rattle sabers all he wants. If push came to shove, we'd destroy Iran. Keeping it is another thing entirely, something the Bush administration failed at. And Hillary Clinton would do the same.
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  67. I love Real News, wish I had money so I could contribute. In any case, this is looking very good for the Democratic Party.
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  68. I cannot stand the incremental gains thing. It should be done - the evidence is there, the cost savings, expenses, etc. have all been shown. And they should play up the bigger business angle.
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  69. The problem is it's good when the dollar goes down because then our exports become more affordable elsewhere. But the real issue is we've pissed away most of our big ticket manufacturing thanks to NAFTA.
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  70. I think you are correct. But you have to look at the true reasons for invading Iran. At that point we would control a vast majority of oil in the world. That said, I don't think we should be going in there. Instead we should take a few hundred billion of the military budget and put it into research to find alternatives to oil and coal and to push adoption of solar, wind, wave, etc.
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  71. The point of this is that Thomsas disability is in the hands of George W. Bush. Even one person disabled or killed is too many in my book.
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  72. I live in one of those 14 states, and surprise, surprise it is Rhode Island. I find voter ID laws blatantly unconstitutional.
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  73. And the U.S. military commanders knew that Al Sadr would be a problem. Why they didn't just take him out explains everything.
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  74. Solomon would have my vote if I lived there.
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  75. Yeah, Roosevelt was no joke. He played the USSC like a fiddle. In all the biographies and histories I've read of the time I see why conservatives still fight today. They abhor what Roosevelt and the congress and the courts did back then.
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  76. Good for all the nurses active in this. They really are the front line in medicine.
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  77. Right at this moment I think the main issue is distraction. Think about it for a moment, we're distracted by jobs, kids, sports, shows, etc. But what if we paid attention to the political. Secondly, corporations are very much to blame. They pretty much run government in the U.S.
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  78. This is a fantastic analysis that the expansion of the minimum wage and EITC would be a great economic benefit. I can't think of a better place to spend money than on this rather than giving money away to the rich.
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  79. Out of sheer curiosity, does anyone know what the situation is in the Dominican Republic? It's part of the same island that Haiti sits on. I wonder if they're having food issues too.
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  80. Backed the wrong horse.
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  81. In other words, lets phrase this correctly - this is a massive looting of the people of the planet by the banks.
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  82. Oh this is rich! Bush is doing anything he can to try and salvage his legacy.
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  83. Recall America pre-WWII was Great Depression America. What Mr. Wilkerson conveniently leaves out is my belief that we are heading into a depression worse than that during the 1930's.
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  84. See in my case I want to build countermeasures to LRAD, and ADS. Not very hard mind you. Water cannons are a little different but energy weaponry - they're fairly easy to defeat.
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  85. I remember when the Russians got their asses handed to them by the U.S. sponsored Mujahadein. Now the U.S. will get it's ass handed to it by the Taliban. BTW, Taliban - it means student.
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