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winter 10/01/2009 03:13 PM Report
During the campaign everybody talked about what an ass-kicker Rahl was ...well we're waiting, we could use it right about now.
Christopher 09/30/2009 05:15 AM Report
Great interview. I thought he had pretty good command of the issues though climate got lost. He seems to be a good public servant. Charlie asked all the hard questions. I find the viewer posts are pretty rough on him. But one note Rahm, comparing your performance to the past administration is not going to convince anyone. Better than the worst isn't good enough.
robdverity 09/27/2009 03:51 PM Report
Sugarland - Cogent post. Wish I'd a said that. Is that Sugar-daddy-land for the plutocrats?
bigterguy 09/27/2009 09:10 AM Report
Rahm Emmanuel is the most dangerous man in the world today. He pulls the strings behind Obama and plugs the words into his speeches. He is a committed socialist (fascist) who cares not at all about liberty, and cares not at all about the rule of law.
Sugarland 09/26/2009 06:59 PM Report
Rahm Emanual is the prime example of the revolving door between big finance and government. He is joined in this by others in Treasury and State. President Obama does not seem to realize the damage he did to his Presidency when he fused government and big finance.
The quick resusitation of big financial institutions while hampering their competition and continued shutting down of small banks appears to be the construction of a plutocracy. The proposed reforms contemplate even larger institutions on an world scale.
Emanual's populus talk at the end of the program, at best, falls on deaf ears but more likely infuriates the well educated middleclass. Their calls for change (we can believe in) of the present archaic financial system to one that will serve the needs of an innovative 21 st century population...have been dismissed as illegitimate.
Charley would do well if he could get the powerful elite to explain why preserving innovation in finance is important.
terracotta 09/25/2009 06:02 PM Report
Why didn't Charlie ask about the Climate? Without a stable climate, we will not have a chance at stable governments. Is he oblivious to what is happening?
terracotta 09/25/2009 06:02 PM Report
Why didn't Charlie ask about the Climate? Without a stable climate, we will not have a chance at stable governments. Is he oblivious to what is happening?
mondo 09/25/2009 12:55 PM Report
Has their ever been a country that makes their own terrorists their presidents and prime ministers other than Israel? How many British peacekeepers and diplomats were killed because of Rahm's father's terrorist gang that rampaged throughout Palestine in the 1940's? Why isn't the bombing of the King David hotel ever discussed? Why isn't the terrorism of the Irgun gang just 1 year after the conclusion of World War 2 ever talked about in the USA? Women with their wombs cut open, whole villiages wiped out, etc.? Even by the nazi standard, these acts were barbaric and hardly what you would expect of a people who had just escaped prosecution. So why is it so vehemently hidden from us in the USA? To learn about this factual history, I wouldn't be surprised to be accused of anti-semitism! YEt this man's father was one of those terrorists. THe fact that his son is now one of the most powerful shot-callers in America should tell you just how corrupt our country is.
owldog 09/25/2009 12:23 PM Report
THE ISRAELI FEDERATION of STATES
The United States of Israel
The situation in Israel and her Territories must change. The people must be freed from violence, oppression and conflict. We must think outside the box and introduce new solutions and ideas, for peace, prosperity and happiness. Having read many books on the Israeli-Palestinian history and conflicts, I have some ideas.
We must think in terms of a many-State solution. If the U.S.A. is to be a model of democracy, so too can our Federal system be a model for the structure of government.
We begin with what the two sides want. Israel wants security and a homeland and a Jewish State. Palestinians want a homeland and human rights. Israel controls the economic, military, and utility infrastructure of all her territories for security reasons, and has stated a desire to keep Palestinians without a military system of their own. Palestinians want their homeland and self-determination above all.
These things can all be achieved if Israel sees herself as not "one State" but a federation of several or more States, each State having its own local ordinances and residency requirements, economies, laws, etc., The United States of Israel. Palestinians then must be residents [citizens] of their own State(s) (i.e. Gaza; West Bank) within a Federal system, which would be one with the United States of Israel. All citizens of the U.S.I. would only be subject to civilian law. Military law (such as presently maintained for Palestinians in the West Bank) would be banned for all citizens of the U.S.I., and the residents of each respective State within.
Greater Israel would become the United States of Israel: Israel proper; West Bank (Samaria & Judea); Gaza; Golan; Jerusalem district; etc.
"Israel proper" (other names can be suggested) can continue to be a Jewish State, per se, requiring residents to provide proof of ethnic while the Federal government can be secular.
However, there would be free movement between the States of Israel, and non-Jewish people of other States might be able to own land or businesses in Israel proper, without being residents, and vice versa with regard to the other States. There must be a constitution granting full human right and priveleges to all in the Union, while affording each State to form its own cultural and residency requirements. The military would be Federal, but each State would have its own police, and local law enforcement. All residents of all States would be eligible to join the Military Services, etc.
Each State would have its own "right of return" policy.
Judeo-centric laws, priveleges, agencies, etc. would no long be part of the Federal government, but would be administered and funded, per se, only by the "Jewish State" (being called "Israel Proper" in this context)
The details of such a plan must be worked out with the parties, but no one would be forced to relocate. Jewish settlers would simply have to conform to the new law of the State in which they live or leave. There would be many Federal cases in the beginning to judge whether settlers have gained their land legally, or could make compensation or payment to remain where they are, for instance.
A parliament of representation and balance of power between branches of government, must be formulated to give fair representation, without the possibility of one ethnic group dominating the U.S.I.
It is entirely possible that historically, Israel, the Jewish State, could have taken a different course, and could have been established and built without the war and bloodshed of 1947-48 and the years following to the present. We cannot turn back the clock. However, we can admit to the failure of peaceful coexistence in the past 60 years or so, and try to make a new beginning, as it were.
Israel is an empire, like it or not, and must re-Constitute itself as such, for administration purposes, if there is to be peace and prosperity, for the Middle East, and for the world.
AntonGrambihler 09/25/2009 12:31 AM Report
Britain and France gave land belonging to Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany on Sep 29, 1938. On Sep 3, 1939 2 days after Germany violated the Munich agreement, Britain and France declared war on the Nazis and forced them to surrender.
The UN gave land belonging to the Palestine People to the Terrorists that rose up against the British Mandate of Palestine. The terrorists call this land Israel. This Israel has been in violation of the UN Resolution for years.
The way forward is for the UN to returned the land confiscated from the Palestine People back to the Palestine People and demand that their "Right Of Return" is not hindered.
In addition the UN needs to begin an International court to try and prosecute the War Criminals in the United States and Israel who were involved in the Slaughter of the Lebanese and Palestine people.
robdverity 09/24/2009 05:58 PM Report
Defer to REM re the detailed mechanics of Rahm's assertions, except for his tail-end flag waving as responders-of-last-resort to the American people. Since he is in a position to know the REAL inner-workings, it coats it with an insidious glaze. It's not the American people our government responds to, it's MONEY!
Af-Pak became Obama's war-of-choice, BECAUSE HE HAD NONE! It was co-opt the war, or be humiliated early on. A knowing puppet, he had to dance. Our alleged democracy (NOT) is powered by money via oligarchic plutocracies through campaign pledges (bribery), lobbying (bribery) wining and dining and general shallow aren't-we-in-the-big-time adolescent preening. Not a statesperson in a carload. Only venality and corruption. Maybe single-term (staggered 8 yrs?) will ultimately help curb the putrefaction.
Citigroup et al (Bobby Rubin, Larry Summers) purchased Obama during the campaign. Thus the financial oligarchic plutocrats will stay out of jail and get their bonuses to boot. Big Pharma oligarchs will continue to get their non-negotiated drug prices; Health Insurance oligarchs will prevail in current silliness; and sickest of all the MI oligarchs will prevail in sustaining Iraq and Af-Pak (then Iran, Somalia, N. Korea et al) in perpetuity.
There's no way they'll give up more than 250,000 private (no bid) contractors, Halliburton, Xe (aka Blackwater), ArmorGroup (the deviants), Raytheon, et al. Their yachts in the Bahama tax havens need outfitting with caviar and vitals - repeatedly. Contributions are mandatory via form 1040. The venal whores of congress have volunteered to redistribute your wealth for you. To the highest no-bid kickbacker. [Ask me if my shorts are too tight.]
REMant 09/24/2009 11:20 AM Report
Well, the Brits claim the merit for the financial strategy, I think rightly, but of course, it is irrelevant because it is wrong, as I'm sure will be seen in time. Much of the rest of the world is getting along fine without the US and the large central banks, and hopefully they will be able to continue that way. Claiming leadership in this area is like the Bushies claiming that they were preventing another 9-11. But in other areas it is clear this admin has not accomplished very much, much less very much that is right, and the point about bipartisanship, etc., is, I think, well taken. BTW, they said the same thing about Lincoln. Despite what you may think of some of the things he alleges, the majority of Ahmadinejad's UN speech was a very well thought out argument for a a new approach to world politics, that I think many in the audience agreed with, much more so than with what our president said. This movement of 2d world states seems to be gaining traction. Obama had a chance to lead them, but no matter what Kadafi may think, he has not, and one of the reasons may be sitting at "this table."
Emmanuel's comments on Afghanistan were on safer ground, but it does seem to me that is has taken quite a long time to get to this juncture, and I don't think it would have happened but for the change in public opinion, which seems to have taken them by surprise.
On tariffs, I understand the situation, because I recently put four new Chinese brand tires on my car for a grand total of $82 plus tax. They were, however, available only from two other manufacturers, one of which was also made there and the other in Korea, but both of which had recently been subject to recalls. Under Chinese brand names most of the tires sold are made for older and fleet vehicles, aircraft and machinery, so it is not as if they are flooding the country with cheap tires without the complicity of American cos, just as Wal-Mart does, or the sellers of everything from apple juice to vitamins. I also recently shopped for a new pair of glasses and found that the majority of frames are now made in China as well, the price of them in most cases far less than for the lenses, which seems to have escalated since my last pair, like health care generally. The Chinese response to this is to urge more "stimulus" spending on their trading partners, pointing to the effect in their own country, but they HAVE the money, and they will GET much of that spending, besides. In fact what they are doing is, in addition to being in line with their Communist past, on the one hand, mercantilist and, on the other, because their stimulus is being spent in China, and not in its trading partners, injurious to the latter. What is worse, increasing debt to provide stimulus not only weakens a country's currency, hurting perhaps China, itself, and other countries which hold it, it hastens decline in the economy instead of reversing it by removing capital from the productive part of it, making the same mistake Communism did. You cannot spend your way to development. The upshot is that while I don't know whether we ought to make or buy tires, I do know that we need to make something, and hopefully something that someone else will buy, and we need to save to do it.
The health care debate seems to have gone pretty much from the sublime to the ridiculous, and I'm sure it will just get worse, not better, and I don't think that's all Olympia Snow's fault.