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on Tea Party
virtually forgotten: THE GLOBAL WAR OF TERROR - the most horrific, insane, phony, costly, provokative duping of all time - serving ONLY THE GLOBAL FINANCE OLIGARCHY
listen to yourselves fighting over education, healthcare, social services - standards in every other civilized society in the modern world - while being duped into paying for and feeding your progeny into the meat grinder of war half way around the world - a meat grinder that serves only global corporate interests and the financiers behind them
and the OPB on-air shills will not point to it - cannot point to it - their mission: maintain the status quo of national ignorance
DUPPED AGAIN!
posted 3 years, 1 month ago
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on Tea Party
provoking hyperbolic Left/Right schism - no champions of Obama or Palin cite the insanity, cost or horror of the endless Global War Of Terror, serving Only the Global Finance Oligarchy
posted 3 years, 1 month ago
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on Northwest Passages: Fisher Poets
I wrote poems about my years fishing in Bristol Bay and Southeast - I often found the weather - the storms and the surf the biggest challenge
MO: how about a poem on misreading a reef
Dave: that story about survival after the fire ought to make for on of the most thrilling novels of all time - you must still be writing it.
posted 3 years, 4 months ago
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on The Reality of Reality TV
good grief, who has time for TV?
posted 3 years, 4 months ago
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on Kicking the Kicker?
all this local-tax-law fussing and tinkering misses the big picture - the market in financial investments pays virtually zero taxes - solution: a Tobin Tax - tax every investment capital transaction - seems only the Global Finance Oligarchy gets a free ride in the Capitalist Paradise
posted 3 years, 4 months ago
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on Boardman to Close in 2020?
centralized energy is needed only to serve heavy industry - decentralized, citizen-owned should be developed to serve residential needs - this is a threat to centralized utility profits - general welfare is more important than utility profits - subsidize decentralization and seize private utilities for the public good
posted 3 years, 5 months ago
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on Animal Assistance
my dog goes everywhere and always give good service - he makes everyone smile - some corporations have policies against smiling - it's all serious all the time - poor souls
posted 3 years, 5 months ago
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on Stun Guns
complete training in martial arts (soft methods) of suspect control - with adequate training, no reason a 200 lb officer cannot control almost anyone - look to public policing in Asia - stun guns are dangerous
posted 3 years, 5 months ago
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on Guilty but Insane Due to PTSD
one more page in the monumental tragedy that is the Global War Of Terror - now over a million pages deep
Jesse mentioned 9/11 - this tragedy is no accident - it was engineered and we're all victims - think about that the next time someone talks of the patriotism of those who enlisted because of 9/11 - thing about The Global War Of Terror and those who benefit from it
posted 3 years, 6 months ago
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on Stimulus Money
stimulus to small business and working poor is a joke - especially when compared to the trillions lavished on global financial institutions who are not loaning to production sectors -- only using TARP money to buy smaller banks, create new derivatives and develop even faster trading mechanisms -- re-inflating the derivatives bubble that crashed the economy to begin with -- no surprise with banker crooks in every administrative finance position -- any average Joe believing this administration is trying to help them is being duped ------------- Tobin Tax - 1% on every stock, bond, option, put, hedge fund issue - would bring in billions to save the social networks ------- financial sector is the only part of this economy that is not fairly taxed and if you don't believe it. you're a dupe
posted 3 years, 10 months ago
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on World-Class Arts?
Tobin Tax - tax on financial transactions - buying and selling stocks bonds - all financial instruments - who better positioned to pay?
posted 3 years, 11 months ago
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on World-Class Arts?
pertinent to OBT's cutting live music
some small local dance companies offer live music almost every time out - more often the OBT and with first rate regional musicians, but get little recognition for doing so - pure politics
posted 3 years, 11 months ago
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on World-Class Arts?
Scott, in terms of the market (your premise), art in America is already dead. To 99% of Americans, art is packaged and delivered by the Entertainment Industry, which doesn't deal in art only celebrity.
As for the quaint window dressing we call the arts - seriously all one can call it in a nation which budgets more for military bands than for the NEA - neither is it immune from the cult of celebrity.
So-called arts management career bureaucrats will hands-down fund big players and their celebrity guests (e.g. OBT, OSO, etc.) over lesser-known local, yet very solid artists, who create competitively on a fraction of the big players' budgets - pure politics - nail in the coffin!
posted 3 years, 11 months ago
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on Switching Us On?
Look here: TIENANMEN REMEMBERED - 20 YEARS - http://www.artixpdx.com/#JUN - enter for details - do you know of any other event scheduled in Oregon, to memorialize this tragedy of the Tiananmen Massacre on its 20th Anniversary?
I propose a show about this memorial event in relationship to how little the US population knows about what goes on around the world.
The Tiananmen events of 1989 and 1976 are directly related to the Cultural Revolution, perhaps the greatest social upheaval anywhere of all time, rivaled perhaps only by La Conquista de México.
Why not look at the June 3, 2009, 20 year memorial event, right here in Portland and bring in a China expert to discuss the history and significance of doing this?
Make an effort to educate Oregonians about the history of one of their biggest trading partners.
posted 4 years ago
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on Political Ads
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