http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 22 May 2013 23:06:54 Wed, 22 May 2013 23:06:54 Please acknowledge that, and tell us if you will be consistent in your thinking and demand alcohol etc. be made illegal.

Furthermore:

The world sucks. Lots of children have rotten parents, and most of them aren't rotten because they use drugs. Many of us grew up with rotten parents. Astonishin... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JackRiddler/1267 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:48:54 due to the Wall Street and Anglo-American banksters' MBS & derivatives fraud-plunder-and-crash of 2002-2009, and the resulting economic disaster.

The key moment in this development came with the fatal decision of the nation-states in 2007-2009 not to liquidate all of the zombies, haul in as many... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JackRiddler/1266 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 14:03:49 Where do you get the absurd idea that the US government supported the Egyptian uprising against Mubarak? Are you confused by the way they gave up their attempt to save Muabarak during the last couple of days, when his position was no longer sustainable?

Of course, the US is now supplying the mili... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JackRiddler/1265 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 11:02:55 If the killer had used a printed classified ad or a telephone to lure his victims, would they be calling him the Verizon killer, or the New York Times killer? Despite all the gun deaths, you almost never hear about the Smith and Wesson killer. The only brandname routinely attached to murder in the h... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JackRiddler/1262 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:53:31 ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JackRiddler/1260 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:40:05 after the king attempted to dissolve the Estates, the Assembly convened in response, the people of Paris rose up and empowered the Assembly, a constitutional monarchy was established, enormous reforms were enacted to secure the rights of the people, a large part of the nobles and the church joined t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JackRiddler/1263 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:27:08 It had to provide a public space - public - in exchange for getting around zoning regulations on setbacks. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JackRiddler/1261 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:10:06 Zorra has posted this a couple of times but it's so funny and worthy of discussion it deserves its own thread.

How many of these have you heard? How do you respond?

http://www.leftycartoons.com/wp-content/uploads/occupy-wall-street.png... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JackRiddler/1264 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:22:21 with its essential function of accumulating more life-giving debt and destroying surplus lest we drown in it?

If the Glorious American Consumer On Whom The World Rests doesn't buy a lot of junk on Friday, EVERYTHING COLLAPSES!!!

Why do you hate freedom? Why do you WANT poor workers everywhe... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JackRiddler/1259 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:16:06 All this should have happened right after the biggest fraud in all history was executed in public view with trillions of dollars defrauded and directly causing the biggest global financial and economic crash in eighty years. Then the perpetrators were bailed out and rewarded and allowed to take even... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JackRiddler/1258 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:20:49 You don't have to be there long or spend much time looking at pictures of the signs people are holding to get it. All of it's related. Just the name already says two things: that the ruling institutions are illegitimate and won't respond, unless you occupy rather than merely protest or vote (nothing... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JackRiddler/1257 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:15:10 and then we might be debating another TARP for the banksters... this time with five times as many protesters in the streets to stop it.

Direct banker rule - like we're seeing in southern Europe, and already saw in the US for a couple of months back in 2008 - is a very precarious thing. If it's a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JackRiddler/1256 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:55:05 http://2439-occupywallst-com.voxcdn.com/media/img/03QUh.jpg

Resist Austerity - Reclaim the Economy - Recreate Our Democracy

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Show some solidarity with our Greek sisters and brothers who will be occupying central Athens in protest of the country's new, unelected, Troika-imposed bankst... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JackRiddler/1255 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:21:07 for all parks, prompting protests at TSP and leading to the TSP police riot of August 6, 1988. Before that, you had open parks everywhere in the city. The police state paradigm for New York really got going under Koch, and this was perhaps the most important of all steps. After this, TSP was the onl... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JackRiddler/1254 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:54:23 I'll also give odds that they are employed adults. In the eyes of the law, anyway, since they're indubitably hateful morons.

I'm saying that merely based on past incidents. No telling anything until they are identified. Right now it could be anyone.

The Daily News found someone in the neighbo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JackRiddler/1252 Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:53:02 management of the capitalist economy in a fashion that benefits the most people (if that's really possible), or engendering GDP growth, or balancing public budgets. No matter how many times they claim things like that.

They may be stupid and ideological, but their policy proposals are too consis... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JackRiddler/1251 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:07:45 Supported the (further) banking deregulation (such as the Glass-Steagal repeal and the failure to regulate derivatives) that set up the frauds and disasters of the subsequent decade.

Wage stagnation since 1970s continued throughout the 1990s. Lots of talk about "new economy" prosperity (bubbles, ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JackRiddler/1249 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:26:15 Supported the (further) banking deregulation (such as the Glass-Steagal repeal and the failure to regulate derivatives) that set up the frauds and disasters of the subsequent decade.

Wage stagnation since 1970s continued throughout the 1990s. Lots of talk about "new economy" prosperity (bubbles, ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JackRiddler/1250 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:26:15 ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JackRiddler/1248 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:00:18 Some of those countries have been sustaining single-payer universal health care, at half the total cost to GDP as that of health care costs in the United States and with a fraction of the costs going to "administration" (profit), for more than 80 years!

The financial troubles currently in Europe ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JackRiddler/1247 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:48:52 Yes vote means debt slavery for generations, privatization of everything, and a country run by remote control by banks in Frankfurt, Paris, London and New York. Also, a signal to the rest of the world, especially the Indignados and Occupy movements: Surrender, Dorothy!

Still, the odds favor a No,... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JackRiddler/1246 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:39:18 The "violence" that the current austerity provoked was mainly the work of provocateurs working with the police, or who were themselves police in masks -- as even the Greek conservative and corporate media have often acknowledged. So in claiming "violence" in Greece you are parroting yet another lie ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JackRiddler/1245 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:10:07
and not only the case of Greece. This is not happening in a vacuum due to the "antics" of Greeks. (That kind of rhetoric defaming a nation deserves a much stronger answer, but I don't want this post deleted.) This is happening in dozens of nations, and Greece is merely the poster child for a progr... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JackRiddler/1244 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:06:36 Greece is not me.

A nation is not a household.

The creditors of Greece are definitely NOT a landlord.

The first two are excusably mindless metaphors, if you're willing to dispense with them.

The latter is a very, very curious metaphor on your part.

I'll say it again: the creditor... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JackRiddler/1243 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:55:23 Now explain Ireland. Or all the other crises happening at the same time. Greece is not isolated. It's a global economic disaster caused by the banksters, an attempt to impose debt slavery on all nations. As each nation is taken down by the financial regime, excuses will be found: they ate too well, ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JackRiddler/1242 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:52:56