Jesus Would Be a Socialist

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By Grant Lawrence

Bodhi Thunder

….When I was a very small boy in the United Kingdom, I used to see on the side of the front door of the church a sign that said Wednesday night is social night. I asked my mom what was a social night. She said it was a night where many of the people in the village met in the Sunday school room and carried food for the people to have a get together, meet old friends and get to know one another better and get friendly.

I have been called a fool for saying socialism is a friendly act, for people to help each other. Social medicine for all people, whether they have any money or not, could not be anything else but friendly to each other person who can’t afford to buy health insurance. The government is responsible to protect the people during war. I think the people should be under government protection when they become sick. Many people can’t afford health insurance. What do we do, let them wither away and die? “Love thy neighbor as thyself” must be some kind of a joke…(source: godanriver.com)

Contrary to what many Fundamentalist Christians today think. Jesus thought the poor and the less fortunate should be helped. He advocated that people go and sell their possessions and follow him. He didn’t think the rich were going to find it easy to get into heaven.

As you might recall, he threw out the money changers. Today the money changers run our government. Not only that, the money changers believe that Socialism for themselves is the only good Socialism.

But Jesus would have wanted to see everybody in society benefit. He would have wanted to see a Socialist society. After all, he had this Socialist idea called the “Golden Rule.” That means that we should care for others as we do ourselves.

In fact, the early Christians were Socialist. They conducted their communities on the basis of caring and sharing.

Yep, Jesus would be a Socialist. I am sure of it.

Bush Praises Obama

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By Grant Lawrence

Bodhi Thunder

President Bush admires President Obama for making more war.

…In the book, which is released on Tuesday, Mr Bush has praised the current president for standing up to critics and deploying more troops in a new commitment to counterinsurgency in Afghanistan.

Mr Bush writes: “I strongly believe the mission is worth the cost. Fortunately, I am not the only one.” (source: big news network)

Bush, like the other Neocons love war as long as they don’t have to fight in it. But there is the other side of the coin.

President Obama like the other Neolibs love war too and they don’t fight in them either.

Bush also is likely overjoyed with President Obama’s economic policy that has given the corporate and financial elites near total control of the government resources and wealth.

In fact, Bush doesn’t even have to be President. However, he can just enjoy himself and watch the unfolding of his third term.

Bush gets to go golfing and hang with his elite friends while President Obama enacts his policies.

Nice!

MSNBC Parent Company Gave Millions to Buy Elections–Olbermann Remains Suspended

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By Grant Lawrence

Bodhi Thunder

The hypocracy of the Keith Olbermann suspension is almost unbelievable.

As I pointed out, corporations now have unlimited potential to buy elections with the resent Supreme Court decision. The owners of these news organizations, like General Electric, are not constricted in their vote buying.

…However, as reported by media watchdog, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), it appears that MSNBC’s parent company, General Electric (GE) along with potential new owner Comcast, both violated the company’s “news policy and standards” by each donating millions of dollars in campaign contributions.In a statement, FAIR pointed to Center for Responsive Politics data, showing that GE made over $2 million in political contributions during the 2010 election cycle alone. In addition, GE spent over $30 million on lobbyists during the same election cycle and gave over $400,000 to Democratic and Republican governors since last year….(source: examiner.com)

But Keith Olbermann, unlike corporate persons, cannot even donate to a candidate. This MSNBC policy is in clear violation of Olbermann’s rights as a citizen.

But what is important here is that MSNBC maintain a facade of objectivity when it is clearly a fraudulent news organization run by massive corporate power and in the interests of that power.

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Tens of Thousands Protest G-20 Summit in Seoul

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By Grant Lawrence

Bodhi Thunder

People all over the world love the New World Order also known as Globalization. It has made the world so much more wealthier and happier.

…Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Seoul on Sunday in a largely peaceful protest against this week’s G20 summit as the city went on heightened alert for the meeting of world leaders….

….South Korea’s armed forces are on a “Level 3″ alert, the highest level, and some 50,000 police — more than one-third of the national force — launched increased patrols from Saturday.…(source: reuters)

The big lie that is regularly sold in this country is that Globalization has been so good for the world. In fact, the people of the world are not getting any wealthier and there are still about a billion that are starving.

Globalization has destroyed the United States.

Some might argue that the destruction of the US economy is worth it because it has helped the poor of the world. But Globalization has created a slave class of factory workers in developing countries and has contributed to the growing number of poor in slums that populate the world’s cities.

In truth, Globalization has only been good for the few elite that run the world. That is all we can say about it.

Banks In Serious Trouble: The Fed’s Quantitative Easing another Trillion Dollar Bank Bail Out

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By Grant Lawrence

Bodhi Thunder

Folks the banks are in deep trouble again and it is now time for more trillions of your dollars to bail them out. It’s another bankster bailout just as many of us in the alternative press had predicted.

Not only are the small banks failing in record number. The big ones, like Bank of America, are in trouble again.

…Now the bank may be on the verge of trouble again. Its stock has fallen 41 percent since April 15. Mortgage-bond investors are demanding untold billions of dollars in refunds. The foreclosure fiasco is metastasizing. A member of the Troubled Asset Relief Program’s oversight panel, AFL-CIO attorney Damon Silvers, openly worried at a hearing last week about the risk that Bank of America might need another bailout….(bloomberg.com)

So the Federal Reserve has engineered a sneaky trillion dollar bailout plan called Quantitative Easing. The plan is to purchase trillion(s) in Tressuries and is ultimately aimed at pumping more cash into the banking system.

Other countries don’t like it because it will seriously devalue the dollar which will destabilize world markets.

…Bernanke came under fire yesterday from officials in Germany, China, and Brazil, who said his plan to pump cash into the banking system may jar other economies and fail to fuel U.S….(source: bloomberg.com)

But Bernanke says he is only concerned about making sure the banks have more money so that they will begin to loan that money to the American people to get the economy moving again.

Where have we heard this Bullsh– before?

You might recall the last bail out went directly to the banks so they wouldn’t foreclose on troubled homes and the banks would have money to lend out to fuel a recovery.

The banks didn’t lend out the money, and there was only a recovery for the super rich.

The managed media is reporting that the new bank bail out will be much smaller than the other bank bail outs.

…The program is smaller than what Fed policymakers called their “shock and awe” approach to fighting the 2008 financial crisis. At that time, the Fed bought $1.7 trillion worth of securities.This new program, including money that the Fed plans to reinvest from the portfolio of mortgages it has bought, should ultimately total $850 billion to $900 billion.

The Fed’s balance sheet, a measure of all its total holdings and investments, has ballooned to $2.3 trillion, nearly triple what it was at the end of 2007, when the economy slid into recession….(source: jacksonville.com)

But the new bank bailout will likely cost trillions too.

…Goldman Sachs anticipates that the real cost of the second round of quantitative easing will be in excess of $2 trillion and will continue well into 2012, while other prominent economists have denounced the Fed’s actions….(source: info wars.com)

Presently the economy is acting like a depression because it is a depression. The true unemployment rate is over 20% and we are experiencing deflation. But the Federal Reserve plans to only make the problem worse by giving the banks more money which will fuel inflation and destroy the dollar.

The newest bank bail out will do nothing but make the economy worse for the average American.

But it will save the banks until the next bail out and that is all that matters.

In the meantime the sheeple worry about government spending while the banks are stealing more trillions from them in the name of a “recovery.”

Rep. Alan Grayson on Why the Democrats Lost Big

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By Grant Lawrence

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Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson of Florida’s 8th District is out of a job and he knows why.

Oh it is not anything he did.

He stood up for the American people to try to get real health care legislation passed, and he tried to pass “The War is Making You Poor Act.” Unfortunately he was in a Party that didn’t stand up for the 99% of Americans that are being ripped off by banksterism and corporatism.

Grayson clearly sees that the recent election was not for Tea Party Republicanism, but it was against the fraud that is the Obama Administration and much of the Democratic Party.

“…I think it’s because the Democratic leadership has failed to deliver to core constituents of the Democratic Party the thing that the Democrats wanted when the Democrats had sixty votes in the Senate, 59 percent of the House, and control of the White House. That’s my view of it. We didn’t vote on the Employee Free Choice Act. We didn’t vote on immigration reform. And we controlled the agenda. This isn’t a situation where we had votes and loss them in the House or the Senate. We simply didn’t bring up these matters of crucial importance to various elements of the Democratic coalition, when we had complete control of the agenda and enough votes to pass anything….“(source: democracy now)

For selling out the American people, the Independents and Democrats stayed home on election day.

“….Well, my defeat was part of a wave across the country that had Republicans winning because Democrats didn’t vote. We have the results from the pre-election turnout; we don’t have the results from the Election Day turnout yet. In my district, when you compare that to 2008, the Republican turnout in the early voting was down by 20 percent, and the Democratic turnout in early voting was down by 60 percent. And that wasn’t true just in my district; that was true all around Florida and pretty much the whole country, except for the West Coast and New England. And as a result of that, virtually every Democrat who won in 2008 by less than ten points loss this year. There was only one exception out of twenty-four. And there were forty-four more Democrats who won by more than ten points in 2008 who managed to lose this year, because their Democratic voters didn’t turn up. It’s not a situation where Democrats—Democratic voters decided to vote Republican; it’ a situation where Democratic voters didn’t vote. And when Democrats don’t vote, Democrats can’t win….“(source)

So now the Democrats will claim that they have sold what is left of America to banksterism and corporatism because the Republicans are back in the House. Then they will expect a vote for their treason come the next election.

But both Parties play a game with the American people.

The Republicrats sell the people out to globalists and the financial elite and they blame each other for doing it. Every election cycle the American people fall for it, and they choose from one of the arms of the banksters, thinking that this tool of corporatism will be better than the other tool of corporatism.

It is a giant game and the American people love playing it.

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