Gary Rumor’s Anti-Entropic Continuum

Nelson and Conrad are trying to kill the health care bill. They have squashed the public option with an exchange for a medicare option for the uninsured over 55 years old. That means next time I lose my job if it passes I can get medicare, maybe.
This health care bill is almost not worth having and probably is not worth passing because there is not much worth having it unless you broaden the medicare coverage. Howard Dean seems to be in favor of that. Now all the pundants are trying to talk the defeat of the public option into a success. The the health insurance industry has won. They got rid of the expensive poor elderly by fobbing them off on the federal government and they got lots of young healthy people forced to get health care who don’t need it from the private insurance industry. This is a total loss for America and another win for the corporations.
Who rules America, the rich rule.

Obama said last week he would start withdrawing from Afghanistan in 18 months and the rest of the senior players have been saying that was not a hard and fast date, only a statement of wishful thinking. Who runs foreign policy the military industrial complex. Guess what happens if we refuse to go along and decide not to pay war taxes, you guessed it, you get to join the prison industrial complex. Sound like a racket. You bet it is. Do we need a revolution? More than ever. Karzai said today that it would take Afghanistan 15 years to be able to afford the 400,000 man military that the USA wants them to create. This just goes to show how absurd the Presidents plan is. There is no withdrawal. There is only repositioning of assets. There will be no replacement of the opium crop only a repositioning of the investment path. Gates and Karzai are both saying at least 5 years in a news conference today.

This is an excerpt from the Notre Dame PR for an expert on terrorist funding Jimmy Gurulé.

“The Taliban are in much stronger financial shape than al Qaeda, and their emergence over the last two years as a formidable military force is directly tied to funding by private benefactors, according to Jimmy Gurulé, University of Notre Dame professor of law and one of the world’s leading experts on terrorist financing.

“The good news is that al Qaeda has been weakened by military strikes killing top al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan,” Gurulé said. “These military efforts have further denied the terror group a safe haven to plan and launch major terrorist attacks against the West. As the result of al Qaeda’s decline, donors have been reluctant to fund the terrorist organization. No one wants to donate to a losing cause.

“The bad news is that the Taliban are growing in strength both in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and are perceived by many as winning the war in Afghanistan. As the result, there is no shortage of private donors willing to finance the Taliban’s efforts.”

According to Gurulé, the Taliban receive approximately $100 million annually from the opium trade in Afghanistan – a narco-state which is keeping the Taliban flush with funds to purchase military weapons and recruit fighters. Further, the U.S. government’s efforts to stem the flow of funds from the sale of heroin in Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere around the world back to Afghanistan have been largely ineffectual.”

What does President Obama recommend for cutting job loss? Not much, some tax incentives and home weatherization aid. How much, not much, he isn’t saying. Obama is the lackey of the rich ruling classes. He works for the 2% who have all the money. TARP money is supposed to go for a jobs program. You want to bet how much? Bank of America instead of loaning money has been holding the money in and saving every penny it can to pay back the TARP loans because they want to be able to give their top people big bonuses and the TARP laws won’t let them. So the banks are taking that money and investing it in growth areas not making loans so they can get back to business as usual. The initial purpose of the TARP loans were to keep business functioning so that people could get loans but instead the banks have used it to prop themselves up while the rearranged their investments to place themselves in a better profit making position. Screw the american working classes and small businesses, they refused to give loans until they could get rid of the TARP restrictions on their profits. Our tax dollars didn’t stop the recession it only helped the banks consolidate.

The USA is blocking the African plan and the Brick plan in Copenhagen. The USA is pushing behind the scenes to make sure that corporations are able to do business as usual by putting the brakes on real climate change reform and slowing down change to keep Exxon Mobil and the other Seven Sisters happy. Do I seem a little cynical. No just realistic.