to read Norman Birnbaum's article published on August 19, 2014, visit

http://www.nachdenkseiten.de/wp-print.php?p=22889

That the end of the Cold War did not initiate a universal reign of peace and prosperity was attributed by Clinton to the irredeemable nature of nations and peoples unfortunate enough not to share in the destiny of the US. Clinton singled out Putin and Russia as especially flawed, pronounced Israel morally and politically exemplary, and was patronizing of Europe, skeptical of the possibility of agreement with Iran and remarkably silent on Asia—-except for praise for Prime Minister Abe for efforts to increase the share of women in the Japanese work force. One might have thought Abe’s deference to Japanese nationalism of some interest to her. After all, she is not the first graduate of Wellesley College in the vicinity of Boston to be interested in world politics. She was preceded by someone from the Sen family, later Madame Chiang Kai-Shek.

President Obama, in recent statements like the interview with Thomas Friedman in the New York Times, has taken a very different approach. He explicitly rejects the view that the US , however large its potential for influence, can impose its views on the world. He insists that there are many problems which do not respond to military solutions. Nations and peoples bear responsibility for overcoming their own divisions. The US has quite enough to do within its own borders, and indeed in failing to solve its own problems would become its own greatest adversary. His words are devoid of the triumphalism of Clinton’s unoriginal version of American exceptionalism. No President since Kennedy (in the 1963 speech calling for an end to the Cold War) has so emphatically defied the conventional thought of the American foreign policy elite—which accounts for their relentless denigration of our remarkably intelligent President. He has indeed made his own some of the worst traditions of the foreign policy apparatus and the domestic security state —especially in surveillance of the citizenry in violation of our constitutional rights, and covert operations abroad forbidden by our own laws and international law. Perhaps he has been influenced by Kennedy’s fate. A journey of ten thousand miles does begin with a single step, and he has at least taken more than one of these.

Clinton’s views are a return to the dogmatism that made her as schoolgirl an enthusiast for the angry provincialism of the prophet of contemporary Republican imperialism, Senator Goldwater.

We live in a world redefined by Thomas Piketty and Joseph Stiglitz. Wealth is more a problem than an incentive. Inequality hurts, Joseph Stiglitz told the Senate. The financial sector must be shriveled while the public sector expands.

Prejudice can be overcome as a stepping stone to the "event of understanding," the fusion of horizons (Hans Georg Gadamer). Jobs in education cost 1/10 what jobs in a chemical dye or capital intensive industry cost. We discover stories in ourselves instead of gazing at the stories of office buildings. Lessons from the 2007 financial crisis include learning from North Dakota and its state bank. Lessons from NAFTA include resisting privatization and deregulation (www.alternativetrademandate.org).

Civil society resists the Citizen United decision with hundreds of communities protesting that corporations are not persons and money is not speech. Warren Buffet should pay more taxes than his secretary. Here is a link to a foreword to "Enough is Enough" pointing us to a sustainable world:

http://steadystate.org/discover/enough-is-enough/foreword/

http://steadystate.org/discover/enough-is-enough/

http://www.nextnewdeal.net
www.therealnews.com

of left gatekeepers.. always way behind current events and ignore the real issues.

that ..infest all levels of.. the so-called progressive social movement

pseudo-progressive career activists, that frame issues and define the acceptable range of public discourse

who actively steer people away from the broader and deeper issues, by dominating media spaces (information dominance - the same type of psyop tactic HBGary - team themis, and other militarized PR firms use)

..and the foundation dependent 'progressive' organisations and their own career activists LOVE these people and promote & defend them, even when they've been exposed regarding their past activities which for anyone else would result in such foundation dependent 'progressive' organisations, disavowing them.

an interlocking 'team career activist' operation, that marginalizes real activists, especially the working poor, the homeless, indigenous people and minorities

- this is why even though there's over a million social justice organizations, (almost all of them tax exempt too) things just keep getting worse

they are doing exactly as the billionaires who fund them,intend

the liberated HBGary but mostly the Stratfor emails *explicitly spell this out*

in fact they BRAG about it (in emails and symposiums) - how good of a job they're doing at preventing any real activism from taking place

this shallow 'capitalism can be tweaked' hopium completely ignores:

peak oil

peak water

peak rare earth metals

peak fertilizer

the population problem (the carrying capacity of the ecosystem, estimated to be only 50 million)

and most of all

the unfolding climate crisis, the methane bomb, the FACT that large portions of the earth's land surface will be uninhabitable in a matter of decades (est. 2045 with current data)

ask yourself how such a lifelong career activist could possibly ignore such issues and keep spewing out feel-good hopium [what amounts to] propaganda, all aimed at continuing business-as-usual.

active ignorance - he's operating under an AGENDA

actively ignoring climate science, actively ignoring ecology

week after week posting and commenting on his own posted fluff pieces, while the real world keeps getting grimmer & grimmer for the working poor, the homeless, indigenous people and minorities

5 million people a year are already dying from climate chaos, but the billionaire foundations don't give a damn, because looting & polluting (what these career activists frame as 'sustainable development') business-as-usual benefits them too, being 4 % of the world's population consuming over 25 % of the world's resources.

Seed is a (former?) member of weather underground, a listed terrorist organisation that planned & carried out bombings, and at least one person died because of their activities.

But because he fits the demographic of the career activist (middle to upper middle class white male who goes to rallies and protests, hands out flyers for 'progressive' "solutions" for predicaments that actually have no solutions, keeping the business-as-usual, looting & polluting capitalism machine, and it's rich investors portfolios humming, while the world burns and the 'little people' keep dying in increasing numbers to support it, his neo-liberal buddy defends him, looks the other way and does nothing.

even nike ad's on his webpage are fine - yes THAT nike, the one that still runs sweatshops where the working poor die..

'progressive' indeed

butt cancer tube steak is fine too, deep fried heart attack, fried everything, not a single healthy food offered, perfectly fine as long as you drop the word 'anarchist' in the commercial ad.

anarchist heating & cooling

bank of anarchist america

wells anarchist fargo

see how easy it is :)

on the point of being a former member of the weather underground - I got him confused with Michael Novick:

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2013/06/260370_comment.php

- turns out Marc Batko is just your average run-of-the-mill plagiarizer:

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2008/01/371264.shtml

"Electing Canada as President

RADICAL SOLUTION FOR SYSTEM DYSTOPIA

By Marc Batko, Portland, OR mbatko@lycos.com

20.Jan.2008"

(article follows)


then the only two comments:

"What the Fuck

Lloyd Hart

If your going to plagiarize my material you should see fit to include my site as a link in your work.

http://www.myspace.com/giveupamerica

http://dadapop.com";

on Loyd's website:

"Ok folks a couple of assholes attempted to steal the concept of this page Elect Canada President and claimed they came up with the idea this last year but I created this page in 2008. I don't mind others riffing off of my ideas but you must credit the originator of the idea especially the idea has been published. I need a lawyer to sue these guys that claimed they came up with the idea themselves on CNN. Please call me at 508-687-9153 if you can help me sue these guys. This is the thieves video, I think I have an iron clad case."

(the datestamp on Lloyd Hart's post on his website precedes the datestamp where Marc Batko re-posted it on portland IMC, and it's already in english so he can't use the translated excuse. And as you can see, after Lloyd complained to him, twice, Marc didn't reply)

UPDATE: he's finally removed the nike ad's from his webpage, quietly, without ever replying either, after I cited him for it here, but has other commercial ad's, for some exercise equipment.

- linking to a webpage that contains commercial ad's constitutes SPAM - at least it does for people not a member of 'team career activist' (other non-team activist people's posts here have been hidden when they did it, over the years)

"what is it with these so-called progressive web sites anyway?

they skate along the surface of issues never getting to the root problems

and we're treated to halfwits like thom horta"

"he is like horta isn't he? he can burn the flesh right off you with his populist vomit"

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actually he reminds me of that brain bug in the movie starshit poopers

- he sucks the brains right out of you but not like false noise, his brain sucking probe is hooked and targets the neo-cortex while fox goes straight down to the brain stem where the lizard part is

reel bad insects