I feel the same way. I don't think Mike understands all of the regulations that are being stripped away from the Glass Steagall Act by the weakening of all of the regulations.
The stock market here is going to be very volatile because there are increased fraud risks involved. I'm pretty close to saying this is SOPA for the investment industry. Sure, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act went too far with bad regulations, but think about how much crony capitalism has been chipping away at deregulating in the two party system for the past 30 years. When the Dodd-Frank bill occurred, we had the crash of 2008. I expect that the JOBS bill will do more to eliminate jobs and cause even more calamity for everyone but the crooks in charge.
TYT believes that entire corporations have completely bought Congress; their lobbyists donate money to electoral campaigns and often serve as major advisers for their politicians, who convince said politicians to deregulate corporations and cut their taxes, while placing the burden on the middle and working classes of America. In exchange for that, the politicians get a large sum of money once they leave politics for good, and even become lobbyists themselves. With the Supreme Court also under corporate payroll, they've made it so that corporations are legally allowed to essentially bribe politicians without repercussions, while making laws that continue to shift the burden on the middle class. Meanwhile, the mainstream media news would distract the public from the real facts, while simultaneously feeding into political propaganda machines to persuade the audiences to take sides in a divide and conquer scenario. Alternatively, the news media may want to portray themselves as "Centrist" or "equal" as possible, in order to form the illusion of bipartisan agreement (Fox News, CNN, NBC et al).
Ron Paul doesn't stand a chance when people can show that he's willing to fight back against a ton of grievous offenses to the Constitution.
The point is that their system stored only one copy of the file, even though there was multiple pointers to it. As soon as they got the DMCA notice, they should have disable access to the file, not just blocking the single link. At that point, they would know that the other links are infringing.
They were told about the link and they removed the link as per the DMCA notice. Any other links they could find and have removed.
So why are you only acting as if this is somehow a criminal offense?
It helps that the banks have lobbied Obama's administration for years behind the scenes to get the money with no strings attached. Now they're bilking the US taxpayer for billions in public view.
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People did vote for him. There's been a number of stories about how there's election fraud against him. The Iowa caucus is even more egregious. They gave it to Romney even though he has NO grassroots support behind him.
And yes, he's an Libertarian that is part of the right wing. He still values individual freedom and choice, but I believe he'd be horrible in other fields.
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We're picking 538 electors where 40% of them don't have to follow through with what their constituents (ie the people) don't want.
People win states, not people, leading to situations such as Mitt Romney, who have more delegates, but people absolutely hate him.
And the electoral college has a 5% failure rating as evidenced from the Cowardly above.
But rather than show all of the issues with the Electoral college, I'll point you to a video that is less than 5 minutes long and can explain the problem with it much better and with pictures in how to win the presidential election with only 22% of the vote:
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I think the biggest reason the parties can get away with presenting us with such useless and moronic candidates is our news world.
Again, the news world for the most part is absolutely usurped. Their interests coincide with the government in keeping the populace downtrodden. Sure, this sounds conspiratorial, but look at Fox News objectively for a second and you'll see what their main strategy is. Class warfare. The war on dissent goes unabated except to those paying attention. Just think how no one paid attention to SOPA save for Judge Napolitano in the mainstream while the battle waged on silently in the background. People WANT to know more but they can't get their news from the MSM. So they've turned to places like CurrenTV and RT that show the lies MSNBC, Fox, and ABC love to tell.
. I have seen no one bring up Santorium's thoughts on interracial marriage, or his comments saying that letting gay sex be legal is equivalent bestiality and incest. If people actually challenged these candidates and didn't let them get away with talking out of their ass it wouldn't take long to see how unfit all of them are to represent our country.
I would suggest looking at The Young Turks or Keith Olbermann because they do so on a daily basis.
So it is not just the fact that one that gets elected is more concerned with special interests then the people. The special interests shape the race, the talking points, our views of the candidates and corrupt the process from start to finish.
Very true but I award this awful race to Michael Steele for his fine work in wanting to shake up the election process. Not only has this shown all of the problems of the four candidates, it's also shown how utterly horrible they are when compared with Obama. And I'm not a fan of Obama either. He should have someone running against him that the majority agree upon whether it's Rocky Anderson or Gary Johnson.
Such is the problem of a process that's as archaic and unnecessary as CDs to teenagers in the age of mp3s.
The sad thing is the vast majority of people know they are all crooks and liars but for some reason they are content to pick their favorite assclown from the set of assclowns that lie to us, pander to the crowd, and speak from their ass every four years and consider that a free and open election.
No, they don't know how to change the system and create better alternatives. Further, you have the Republican party trying to disparage the vote to win more seats in the House and maintain control. Poll taxes have been used to keep the Republicans in power for a long time. The drug war, our judicial system, damn near everything you can think of that seems to target minorities seem to have one thing in mind. Keep people from voting and changing the system. Such is the world of the US that still insidiously hides racism in its actions so that it can win a "game". That's the scariest part about this.
Re: How do you separate government from the interess of the 1% these days?
The money is only one aspect. Granted, it's a very large aspect because of Citizens United, but still, it's not the only problem here.
The basic fundamental difference is that we've needed electoral reform in order to have a government that supports a majority instead of minority rule.
Once you elect better candidates from various parties, you can undo all of the damage that a two party system has wrought:
More attention to civil liberties
More attention to better education methods
Better working conditions
More job opportunities in various fields
More people focused on maintaining a watch on the government to ensure its interests are those of the people, not the richest among us.
Until electoral reform occurs, we'll always have a two party system that has been usurped by special interests and unwilling to do anything but ensure that its ultimate victory lies in destroying anyone that gets in its way.
There's no way that a budget of that size is just middle class taxes. I've been looking into civil asset forfeiture and I'm pretty sure that the properties seized equate to a LOT of money that is given to the federal government to budget. Further, I wouldn't doubt that people like Mitt Romney (the extremely rich) use their vast funds to finance an operation like this.
This isn't even a police state. With the proliferation of HR 347, the Patriot Act, the NDAA, special interest politicians, lack of judicial oversight, and an outright war on dissent, this is one step away from a totalitarian regime.
There's so many problems to talk about that it's impossible to know where to start!
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Our electoral college and primary system is to blame for that.
And I truly believe that Ron Paul is getting screwed out of the nomination. They decided beforehand that they would pick Romney even though Paul has the best shot against Obama. But he won't play ball on Iraq and he won't play ball on civil liberties.
No, this isn't a Paul boost. He'll still have his own problems, but Romney is damaged goods. He won't be able to defeat the president and Obama cruises to a great finish for another election.
In order to really change the two party system, you'd have to abolish the Electoral College, change all elections to the alternative vote, then work on electoral reform in each state. Until then, we'll have constant problems with our elected officials ignoring the people for special interests.
If you want to start down that road, explain why the MPAA had so much clout with keeping their movies in foreign theaters and suppressing foreign movie content
So no, a single drug might not cost 800 million to make, but there might have been a couple of hundred million in this one, and a few hundred million spent on other research that went nowhere, or medication developed and tested and NOT approved.
And that's all well and good but most of the development and research is done by smaller companies than say... Pfizer, who spends more on advertising their wares.
Until you can explain why the GAO has stated how patents stifle innovation, I'm wary to trust your belief that higher prices = better societal research.
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The stock market here is going to be very volatile because there are increased fraud risks involved. I'm pretty close to saying this is SOPA for the investment industry. Sure, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act went too far with bad regulations, but think about how much crony capitalism has been chipping away at deregulating in the two party system for the past 30 years. When the Dodd-Frank bill occurred, we had the crash of 2008. I expect that the JOBS bill will do more to eliminate jobs and cause even more calamity for everyone but the crooks in charge.
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You are confused about Gregori and his mathematical logic of the concept of a leap year.
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TYT believes that entire corporations have completely bought Congress; their lobbyists donate money to electoral campaigns and often serve as major advisers for their politicians, who convince said politicians to deregulate corporations and cut their taxes, while placing the burden on the middle and working classes of America. In exchange for that, the politicians get a large sum of money once they leave politics for good, and even become lobbyists themselves. With the Supreme Court also under corporate payroll, they've made it so that corporations are legally allowed to essentially bribe politicians without repercussions, while making laws that continue to shift the burden on the middle class. Meanwhile, the mainstream media news would distract the public from the real facts, while simultaneously feeding into political propaganda machines to persuade the audiences to take sides in a divide and conquer scenario. Alternatively, the news media may want to portray themselves as "Centrist" or "equal" as possible, in order to form the illusion of bipartisan agreement (Fox News, CNN, NBC et al).
Ron Paul doesn't stand a chance when people can show that he's willing to fight back against a ton of grievous offenses to the Constitution.
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They were told about the link and they removed the link as per the DMCA notice. Any other links they could find and have removed.
So why are you only acting as if this is somehow a criminal offense?
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And yes, he's an Libertarian that is part of the right wing. He still values individual freedom and choice, but I believe he'd be horrible in other fields.
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People win states, not people, leading to situations such as Mitt Romney, who have more delegates, but people absolutely hate him.
And the electoral college has a 5% failure rating as evidenced from the Cowardly above.
But rather than show all of the issues with the Electoral college, I'll point you to a video that is less than 5 minutes long and can explain the problem with it much better and with pictures in how to win the presidential election with only 22% of the vote:
Link
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I think the biggest reason the parties can get away with presenting us with such useless and moronic candidates is our news world.
Again, the news world for the most part is absolutely usurped. Their interests coincide with the government in keeping the populace downtrodden. Sure, this sounds conspiratorial, but look at Fox News objectively for a second and you'll see what their main strategy is. Class warfare. The war on dissent goes unabated except to those paying attention. Just think how no one paid attention to SOPA save for Judge Napolitano in the mainstream while the battle waged on silently in the background. People WANT to know more but they can't get their news from the MSM. So they've turned to places like CurrenTV and RT that show the lies MSNBC, Fox, and ABC love to tell.
. I have seen no one bring up Santorium's thoughts on interracial marriage, or his comments saying that letting gay sex be legal is equivalent bestiality and incest. If people actually challenged these candidates and didn't let them get away with talking out of their ass it wouldn't take long to see how unfit all of them are to represent our country.
I would suggest looking at The Young Turks or Keith Olbermann because they do so on a daily basis.
So it is not just the fact that one that gets elected is more concerned with special interests then the people. The special interests shape the race, the talking points, our views of the candidates and corrupt the process from start to finish.
Very true but I award this awful race to Michael Steele for his fine work in wanting to shake up the election process. Not only has this shown all of the problems of the four candidates, it's also shown how utterly horrible they are when compared with Obama. And I'm not a fan of Obama either. He should have someone running against him that the majority agree upon whether it's Rocky Anderson or Gary Johnson.
Such is the problem of a process that's as archaic and unnecessary as CDs to teenagers in the age of mp3s.
The sad thing is the vast majority of people know they are all crooks and liars but for some reason they are content to pick their favorite assclown from the set of assclowns that lie to us, pander to the crowd, and speak from their ass every four years and consider that a free and open election.
No, they don't know how to change the system and create better alternatives. Further, you have the Republican party trying to disparage the vote to win more seats in the House and maintain control. Poll taxes have been used to keep the Republicans in power for a long time. The drug war, our judicial system, damn near everything you can think of that seems to target minorities seem to have one thing in mind. Keep people from voting and changing the system. Such is the world of the US that still insidiously hides racism in its actions so that it can win a "game". That's the scariest part about this.
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Re: How do you separate government from the interess of the 1% these days?
The basic fundamental difference is that we've needed electoral reform in order to have a government that supports a majority instead of minority rule.
Once you elect better candidates from various parties, you can undo all of the damage that a two party system has wrought:
More attention to civil liberties
More attention to better education methods
Better working conditions
More job opportunities in various fields
More people focused on maintaining a watch on the government to ensure its interests are those of the people, not the richest among us.
Until electoral reform occurs, we'll always have a two party system that has been usurped by special interests and unwilling to do anything but ensure that its ultimate victory lies in destroying anyone that gets in its way.
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There's no way that a budget of that size is just middle class taxes. I've been looking into civil asset forfeiture and I'm pretty sure that the properties seized equate to a LOT of money that is given to the federal government to budget. Further, I wouldn't doubt that people like Mitt Romney (the extremely rich) use their vast funds to finance an operation like this.
This isn't even a police state. With the proliferation of HR 347, the Patriot Act, the NDAA, special interest politicians, lack of judicial oversight, and an outright war on dissent, this is one step away from a totalitarian regime.
There's so many problems to talk about that it's impossible to know where to start!
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And I truly believe that Ron Paul is getting screwed out of the nomination. They decided beforehand that they would pick Romney even though Paul has the best shot against Obama. But he won't play ball on Iraq and he won't play ball on civil liberties.
No, this isn't a Paul boost. He'll still have his own problems, but Romney is damaged goods. He won't be able to defeat the president and Obama cruises to a great finish for another election.
In order to really change the two party system, you'd have to abolish the Electoral College, change all elections to the alternative vote, then work on electoral reform in each state. Until then, we'll have constant problems with our elected officials ignoring the people for special interests.
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Keep trying, vapor man. Maybe one day you'll get a clue on how to debate. Something sorely lacking in your bullshit right now.
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You're just a blowhard that's trying profusely to sound intelligent and failing miserably.
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And that's all well and good but most of the development and research is done by smaller companies than say... Pfizer, who spends more on advertising their wares.
Until you can explain why the GAO has stated how patents stifle innovation, I'm wary to trust your belief that higher prices = better societal research.
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