Charlie Rose

Andre_Sheldon  10/13/2010 09:38 PM Report

Mr. Sullivan stated he has hope because President Obama is in office. I also believe this to be true. However, in addition, I would like to humbly submit that for Obama to create paradigm change, he needs a "people movement" to give him the "political will." Ironically, the key elements to creating a global people movement were illustrated on the segment following Andrew, the report about Budrus. The people promoted NONVIOLENCE, with Women leading the way!

How profound, yet simple. Women are usually socialized to be less violent than men in every society, therefore, if they were to lead a movement of nonviolence, it would influence governments to stop war and gradually change military spending to humanitarian spending. Everyone would want to ba a part (if they see others doing it - jump on the bandwagon). The movement would not be about women. It would be about working for humanity! But if the women lead, it will surely get attention.

My research has found that the commonality of all families and societies is the children. If the world focuses on the welfare of the children, as a starting point, it will lead to solving their differences. Ask Queen Noor. She has started over 20 organizations for children!

Watch the women unite in every village, town, and city. The media would surely take notice!

It will take sacrifice and suffering to accomplish any changes. A movement of nonviolence, for the children, will not solve the immediate problems and will not eliminate terrorism, but it will create a tipping point.

A global strategy of nonviolence has been developed as a guideline. Please see www.globalstrategyofnonviolence.org. The implementation is only one step away. The world uniting is only one sentence away - the sentence that announces its beginning.

Andrew Sullivan, you stated to Charlie Rose that the blog offered you away to speak to truth. The world must find a way to shift from cultures run on the principles of dominance by force, to cultures guided by principle of caring, partnership, and respect for human rights for all.

The people of Budrus need support! The world must sanction them by doing the same thing they did proactively – assemble and “influence their own governments!

Andrew Sullivan, you can make a difference! Help start a Global Movement of Nonviolence.

Peace and Love,

Andre Sheldon

JohnGelles  10/13/2010 08:27 AM Report

You have to click on the words full screen or on the picture of the magazine to get the slide show presentation referred to in my posts

JohnGelles  10/13/2010 08:21 AM Report

The great Atlantic feature whose third page tells the story I want to discuss is reached at the following URL

http://www.theatlantic.com/special-report/brave-thinkers-2010/

JohnGelles  10/13/2010 08:14 AM Report

I like Andrew Sullivan's original support for the preventive war against Saddam Hussein. He has changed his opinion. I have not changed mine. So what. Conventional wisdom of the moment is with Sullivan. I expect historians to be divided. If Saddam had not been executed for his crimes, history (whatever it turns out to be) would have recorded something different--that was worse--In My not so Humble Opinion.

Anyway I want to opine that Timothy Geithner on 12 October was a fast talking disgrace to our government and his boss--whom he has fooled into being a deficit-dummy who never read William Vickrey and will deserve to pay the price for that.

So I want to Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish at the Atlantic on the web. There I found a terrific tool that turns pages on a stationary screen. It is an Atlantic feature I believe. It offered the following very near its first page.

"David Cameron

"Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

"Cameron has been making bold decisions since he took office in May. When his Conservative Party gained the most votes in this spring’s election—but not enough for a straightforward governing majority—he invited the Liberal Democrats into a coalition. And then, faced with financial crisis, he wasted no time in raising taxes and cutting spending.

"Read full story (Antony Hare)"

So there you have it -- Charlie Rose's conversation with Timothy Geithner on October 12th whose sorest point with me is reached via an ancillary feature on the Daily Dish page tied to Charlie and Andrew's chat of October 11th.

"he wasted no time in raising taxes and cutting spending."

This observation translates for me into: WASTE NO TIME IN RAISING TAXES AND CUTTING SPENDING

There you have the whole world's dilemma in ten words or less.

Geithner, Obama and Charlie Rose have chosen to allow these words to color their view on speeding recovery and saving democracy. For, make no mistake about it, the traditional Democratic recognition of the essential nature of aggregate demand in saving human beings from the Achilles heel of entrepreneurial capitalism (otherwise a fruitful half of a mixed economy) has been jettisoned by these otherwise OK celebrities. They are flirting with austerity instead of embracing the obvious need for government to inject money into the demand side to pay seed capital into giant green investment programs to achieve energy independence, educational success, health, full employment, and economic security for everyone everywhere.

Charlie--please go to the turning pages on the Atlantic where Andrew writes. Have your people copy it for here.

robdverity  10/12/2010 05:02 PM Report

It's confoundingly interesting that he has the opinion he does re Catholicism and yet claim he's Catholic. Has the Catholic-Hell syndrome trumped his logic? His gayness seems to have trumped his Catholicness. He's smarter than most by holding two conflicting thoughts simultaneously. Of the two Catholicism is the most corrosive.

REMant  10/12/2010 02:48 PM Report

Well, a blog these days is most often a journalist's diary or notebook, rather than a finished story. That makes it personal, and in many ways that is a much more honest way of doing it. I have never looked at The Daily Dish, never looked at The Drudge Report, either, and only once or twice, The Huffington Post. While I think personal in the blog sense, and, of course, the first-hand accounts, are good, I don't think there is much of significance in what I'd call great man journalism, or the idea that events are important. Events are what they are. Change is brought about by education, not by dishing dirt. For anyone who has lived, read and traveled for a while, none of it is new, and it isn't "historical." Similarly while I think there's demagoguery in the several organized "tea" parties, I don't think they make up a very big part of the movement.

Yet another displaced Englishperson, tho. I'm glad he said he is English, and gay, because I was trying to decide which it was. I disagree with the idea that there's no political and homosexual correlation, and I think it is obvious from what he has said here. The common element is passion or mania, yielding in, as the psychologists put it, "stimulus generalization." Whether he is liberal or conservative is an interesting question. Tories and neo-cons have a lot in common tho the latter are usually displaced Democrats. I don't know what to make of his support for Ron Paul except that it must have indicated a disgust with GOP excess and mismanagement, not the Iraq War, itself. Balanced budgets and sound money had been Democratic hallmarks, if seldom observed, but the same can be said of Republicans. In this election the GOP is taking the typical line that the other party are telling us what to do, which is, moreover, a "job-killer," and is, as always, hypocritical. Lacking is a sense of duty, which is what one would expect of enthusiasts. In Oakeshot's time, it was de rigueur to blame everything bad on "Gesellschaft" and make that synonymous with Utopia, thus either making all saints sentimentalists, or making all "Gemeinschaft" sentimental. Ppl argue that Hayek, himself, was never truly libertarian. I am not sure what sort of change tho he expected from Barrack Obama. I don't think he knows present day Europe very well, either, because it has as "liberal" a contingent as anyplace, particularly in the vicinity of Brussels and Strasbourg. They should have known over there that that kind of thing comes packaged with central govt. Faith seems to befuddle him, as well. Dan Harris (my nominee to succeed Diane Sawyer) did much better on that subject recently.

Slim  10/12/2010 02:22 PM Report

Finally, a white talking head on the show whose opinions and observations are pretty much based on the realities of America and not the fictional country invented by the fear-mongering and delusional right wing-tea party drones and their co-horts in this farce,the white main stream media.