Along with a $1.1 trillion spending bill that will keep government funded through September, the U.S. Congress is on the verge of passing a Republican-backed, $629 billion package of tax cuts that one group calls "a lobbyist-wrapped Christmas present for our nation's biggest corporations."
"in a frame of fiscal austerity that means that government cannot adequately serve the needs of its people,"
Although it seems crazy here on CD to say it â nowhere near enough
Americans even understand that there is an EMPIRE, nor that they
themselves are nothing but âsubjectsâ of that EMPIRE â because all but
a small fraction of even the alt media donât really try to educate the
people about the EMPIRE, which is a shame (or a sham) in not enabling the:
âRising-up, standing-up, and shouting-out against EMPIREâ â which is absolutely
essential if we are to ignite a non-violent Second American Revolution against EMPIRE again in 2015/6 like 1775/6.
The American people will absolutely have to understand that Empire wars abroad and its economic tyranny at home are both parts of the same disease/cancer of EMPIRE itself.
âEmpire Filesâ is uniquely and with seminal focus doing more to
educate the American people about the Disguised Global Capitalist Empire that
has captured, controls, and now fully âOccupiesâ our former country as
its nominal global HQ, metropole, and âbeardâ of faux-democracy than any
other progressive source of truth-telling.
Although, âPopular Resistanceâ, âCommon Dreamsâ, âTruthDigâ, WSWS, âThe Real News Networkâ, âTruth Outâ, âDays of Rageâ, and an array of progressive alt media sites also deserve credit for providing good articles exposing and âoutingâ the Empire with some increasing frequency.
A non-violent âshout heard round the worldâ against this EMPIRE is the only peaceful and âeffectiveâ alternative to another bloody âshot heard round the worldâ of mass suicide.
SoooooooâŚ
No Democrats voted on this/these bills???
(Iâm registered non-partisan voter)
The Constitution needs to be re-written from: WE THE PEOPLE⌠TO WE THE CORPORATIONS. And of the oligarchs; by the oligarchs; and for the oligarchs.
But the sad part is that until the vast majority of Americans wake up and realize they no longer live in a democracy, but a corportocracy and an Amerikan Empire that is backed by a military dictatorship and that for the people; of the people; and by the people; is no longer relevant, nothing will change.
And the politicians wonder why the voters are in open revolt.
minitrue, I like your comment and fully agree with the deceitful phony nature of this NOT-democracy of the people.
However, as an alternative to calling the âlittle peopleâ (as Leona Hemsley did), merely; serfs, peons, wage-slaves, peasants, or other terms that are perfectly accurate, but do not point to their tyrannous oppressor, I always call them "subjectsâ of the Empire â since this term gives people the correct name of the thing, predator, and actual structure which they could and should Revolt against, just as the earlier American colonists and 'subjects; of the Empire well understood what foot of Empire was on their throats and what âthingâ they needed to confront and overcome.
Being a serf, peon, peasant, or pauper â which most of us are ---- does not give the serf enough of an identity, as the âsubject of an EMPIREâ does to fight back against a specific thing, the EMPIRE that is enslaving him as a âsubjectâ.
All Revolutions throughout history are fought âagainst Empireâ ---- although they are sometimes disguised with other names like: dynasty, monarchy, dictatorship, oligarchy, fascism, plutocracy, et al.
Sure they did!
Result: 332 Yes ( 214 needed to pass)
Republicans 169 Y 62 N
Democrats 163 Y 32 N
Bipartisan as hell!
QUOTE:
With 271,527 votes cast â and all three presidential candidates campaigning directly for your vote â the results are in and they are extraordinary.
Bernie Sanders has earned Democracy for Americaâs endorsement in the
2016 Democratic presidential primary with an astonishing, record-breaking 87.9%
of the vote (including 77.8% of voters who were already members of DFA
prior to the poll being launched on December 7).
This is an historic moment for DFA, for the progressive movement, for the
Democratic Party, for people-powered politics â and for Bernie
supporters who relentlessly rallied over nine intense days to Get Out The Vote
and win this pivotal endorsementâŚUNQUOTE
(The bold emphasis on 87.9% is mine.)
That is despite the foul move by Howard Dean, the founder of the DFA, when he sabotaged the neutrality of the process by co-authoring an email with Hillary to all members endorsing her.
This is much more valuable than a union endorsement, which is just a recommendation to the members whom to vote for. ** These are 238,672 DIRECT votes for Bernie!** and the start of a powerful new campaign in his behalf.
When deals are made with the devil, in the end there will always be Hell to pay. The vote was not âbipartisan.â It was more like a consummate example of coercion/extortion. The vultures have come to roost on RyanâŚpicking at his flesh and blinding himâŚand he seems to regale in their attention. Not for longâŚ
Yes. Iâve often written comments to the effect that we were once Citizens of the Constitutional Republic, of the United States of America.
If the Amerikan Empireâs, Stasi military war mongers like Graham, Huck and the insane McCain people get their wish and attack Russia, it will not be Poland; it will be Waterloo!
No end to their depravity, just depravity to the end.
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