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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