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

  1. 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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  2. How interesting. Essentially I think we're heading more into a depression than a recession.
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  3. 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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  4. The Turks owe a lot of apologies. First it was the Armenians, now the Kurds.
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  5. 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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  6. I wonder what part of "To petition our government for a redress of grievances" the Republicans don't get.
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  7. 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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  8. @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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. Have FDR gone along with Hoover the Great Depression would have been the absolute destruction of the U.S. economy.
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  13. I'm very intrigued by what Cohen is saying. We need to take our party back from the corporations.
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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. Solomon would have my vote if I lived there.
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  25. 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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  26. Good for all the nurses active in this. They really are the front line in medicine.
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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30. Backed the wrong horse.
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  31. 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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  32. Oh this is rich! Bush is doing anything he can to try and salvage his legacy.
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  33. 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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  34. 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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  35. 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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