Background:Nobody Likes Congress! :(
Overview: Insider Trading In Congress, Martha Stewart Scapegoated & Bankers Hypocrisy Exposed
Images & Links: Colbert Report Explains McDonald's Slave Wages

A**holes Wanted: Aasif Mandvi tries selling a promising congressional candidate on going to Washington DC, despite its 535 obvious flaws.  (04:34): 

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Background:
Southern Strategy 1: The Race War In The USA - The Daily Show 

To get an idea of how toxic the rhetoric in the US has gotten ...

Moment Of Zen: Notice what the members of the crowd are shouting, especially at approx 2 mins into the following video: "You are the Anti-Christ"  

News Report: One in four Americans think Obama may be the antichrist, survey saysPoll asking voters about conspiracy theories reveals alarming beliefs – including 37% believing global warming to be a hoax

How can a large segment of a 21st Century population... IN A FIRST WORLD COUNTRY .. believe something like this (these aren't rational people)...

Psychological Background: The Average GOP/Fox-News Follower Is Easily Distracted

BTW, the global warming this is probably spread by the Koch Brother Libertarians as CATO (following video) & Heritage are founded by the Koch Brothers:

CATO: Is A Koch Brother Funded Institute. If you listen To Cato OR Heritage then you are a "Koch Brother Libertarian".


"The Koch Brothers"

"The Koch Brothers are worth $50 billion. They’ve bankrolled the Tea Party, the campaign against climate change science, and entire university departments to advance their right-wing agenda. The newest item on their shopping list: their own Center for American Progress."

Republicans Attempt to Ax Program Monitoring CarcinogensThe National Toxicology Program, part of the National Institutes of Health, publishes the biannual Report on Carcinogens, which is one of the primary sources of up-to-date public information about chemicals that are known or suspected causes of cancer. The report has been published since 1980, in response to a directive from Congress. But if Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-Mont.) gets his way, soon we might lose this detailed information about the chemicals putting us at risk.


Heritage is also a Koch created and funded institute:

Connections:1. "Before joining Heritage in June 2007, Loris was an associate at the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, immersing himself for a year in a market-based management program."  ,2. "Total Koch foundation grants 1997-2009: $3,976,571"3. Sourcewatch: A list of Koch Funded Orgs

Then there are the lies about the Keystone pipeline. It doesn't create long term jobs. It will create fuel over 2 decades. It will cause earthquakes as well. The Koch Brothers have enough money to survive earthquakes and tsunamis. Most of the rest of the population doesn't. Amnesties/Tax-Breaks/help for the rich and death for common Citizens is another aspect of "Corporatism".

Koch company declared 'substantial interest' in Keystone XL pipeline: Document filed with Canada's Energy Board appears to cast doubt on claims by Koch Industries that it has no interest in the controversial pipeline.


BLOG POST: The Koch Brothers ARE Waging War On Obama & US Citizens!


GOP's radioactive anti-Obama rhetoric

(CNN) -- The debates this presidential primary season have been less like Lincoln-Douglas than former heavyweight champ Buster Douglas -- punch-drunk pugilism, providing entertainment and some great upsets along the way.
But for all the excitement of the fights, there is a civic cost to the radioactive rhetoric that gets thrown out to excite the conservative crowds.

It's not just that the most irresponsible candidates can play to the base and get a boost in the polls, while more sober-minded candidates like Jon Huntsman fail to get attention. The real damage is to the process of running for president itself. Because when low blows get rewarded, the incentive to try to emulate Lincoln -- holding yourself to a higher standard -- is diminished. And one barometer of this atmospheric shift is in the increasingly overheated rhetoric by candidates attacking the current president. This serial disrespect ends up unintentionally diminishing the office of president itself.

Look, I know that politics is a full-contact sport: Elbows get thrown and egos get bruised. But ask yourself if Ronald Reagan ever called Jimmy Carter a socialist or a communist on the stump. Sure, there were deep philosophical and policy disagreements between them, and Carter was called a failed president many times. But there was a lingering respect for the office that retained an essential bit of dignity. It was only the far-right fringe who indulged in the kind of rhetoric we now hear routinely from presidential candidates.

Magazine Article Extract: Covert Operations:The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama.

Southern Strategy: "He's not one of us"

Romney Invokes "Birther" Controversy with Dig at Obama

"The Real Romney": Veteran Reporter Michael Kranish on Mitt Romney’s Embrace of GOP’s Rightward Turn

Rick Perry Questions Legitimacy of Obama's Birth Certificate

Rick Perry on Birtherism: Just Kidding!

Birtherism Is Dead. Long Live Otherism.

TEST: Watch this talk, by a Southerner, Bill Clinton Watch President Clinton Deliver Nomination Address at the DNC and if you are a Southerner/Midwesterner... what do you notice?

To understand what kind of polices the South and thus The GOP-Republicans are going to implement, all you gotta do is see what GOP supporters are implementing now and how they are doing it (Note: Mexican-American's are 'Latinos')...

Tucson's Mexican-American Studies Ban:

To understand why Latino's have been attacked so hard by the GOP-Republicans, you have to understand their standard party political strategy, which all of them (except Ron Paul) use...

GOP-Republican: The Southern Strategy

The Southern Strategy is the policy of the Republican Party in the United States to gain political support in the Southern section of the country. Politically, the concept generally uses themes traditionally supported by residents of the Southern states to win election in those locations. Since segregation continued well into the late 20th century in the region, the Republican Party officially attempted to utilize this wedge issue as a way of garnering support for their political faction in these states. In addition to the issue of segregation between white residents and African Americans, the party also utilized Southern values of religion, gun control and a distrust of counterculture to win votes.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the Republican Party generally opposed desegregation and the Civil Rights Movement. This stance caused a major shift in the voting practices of the African American community to the support of the Democratic Party, the faction which helped legislate laws such as the Voting Rights Act. Party officials, specifically President Richard Nixon's political strategist Kevin Phillips, understood that in order for the Republicans to win the Southern states, they needed to focus their attention on the Caucasian population.

The implementation of the Southern Strategy by the Republican Party represented a major shift in political power in the region. Since the Civil War, the Democratic Party was the primary force in the South due to its support of the region during Reconstruction. In addition, the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln was seen as the primary instigator of the war by most Southern residents. Between the 1950s and the early 1980s, the South shifted to major support for the Republicans. At the same time, much of the North and the West became a major supporter of Democrats.

In other words, the establishment Republicans (i.e Newt, Mitt, Santorum - those following standard party policy) are using the natural racism of the South (see background above) to get votes. This racism has been fanned by the GOP and Fox News to a point where it has become extremely toxic. 


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Historical overview
Morgan Freeman on the tea party, racism and Obama
North-South Cultural 1 -  Division in The USA
North-South Cultural 2 - Division in The USA 
North-South Cultural 3 - Division in The USA  

Basically, the South sees black people like they did in the days when the Constitution was first written...

Warner Bros 1940 - Confederate Honey:

Moment Of Zen: The Kochs, Segregation, and Joseph Stalin
i.e. see the following video: 

BREAKING FOX NEWS ALERT: 300 INNOCENT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN EXONERATED BY DNA EVIDENCE AFTER A JURY DECIDED THEY WERE GUILTY

On The Black Presidency: Larry Wilmore considers whether or not American democracy can survive with the same ethnicity dominating the White House over and over again for years on end. (03:58)... 

Learn about the Republican's "Southern Strategy":

•  Southern strategy: In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to the Republican Party strategy of winning elections in Southern states by exploiting anti-African American racism and fears of lawlessness among Southern white voters and appealing to fears of growing federal power in social and economic matters (generally lumped under the concept of states' rights)

Republican Minority Outreach: Larry Wilmore advises Republicans not wanting to appear racist to not say racist things(they can't do that because they are in denial about their racism)...

About The South...

Innocent killed for crimes, especially if they are of a minority person, is normal in the Southern United States of America. The top leadership has no shame and the same morality as feudal lords who rape their slaves for fun and profit(i.e. extra slave labor . Hell, they even made that thier party platform. Only a Southerner Feudal Lord Party (In this case Arizona, whoes Republican candidate turned out to be an actual Nazi!) could possibly have the balls, in today's modern world, to actually protect rapist babies before they are even conceived  AND literally put it on the Party Platform ... and then shut-up so the women wouldn't find out!


1. "Graves' brother, Arthur Curry Jr., has always insisted that Graves was home with him the night of the murders. "There is no justice, especially here in Texas. Had he done that and I knew it, I could not have hid the truth knowing that someone's family was in torture," says Curry. Graves has not been given an execution date. His lawyer is seeking a new trial."

2. "The Death Penalty Information Center keeps an "Innocence List" which names incarcerated people who have been exonerated since 1973. There are 119 to date. The criteria for inclusion on the list are: "In order to be included on the list, defendants must have been convicted and sentenced to death, and subsequently either: a) their conviction was overturned and they were acquitted at a re-trial, or all charges were dismissed; or b) they were given an absolute pardon by the governor based on new evidence of innocence." 

Famous Speeches From Movies: To Kill a Mockingbird.

Notice that To Kill A Mocking Bird is a fiction book ABOUT the South well AFTER the civil war. Notice where the black people are. In the deep South the fear of the black man (from old white women) STILL exists. Seeing blacks as lower than them to a point where there is no shame in calling people 'other black' and 'our blacks' ('our blacks', I think, was famously used by Ann Coulter). To Kill A Mocking Bird is a MUST READ to understand the South, for outsiders.

Excellent example of Southern "Justice" (NON-Fiction):

“Anatomy of Injustice”: Death in a small town
Note: In To Kill A Mocking Bird, at the end, the all-white jury ruled to have the black guy killed. Notice Mitt Romney's strategy is to blame everything on the black guy EXACTLY like To Kill A Mocking Bird... with an almost all white male election base which is so outdated they have resorted to election fraud rather than be compassionate.

There was even a book by John Grisham covering this Southern Tradition in his own way in A Time To Kill

Interesting fact: Many members of the Nazi's found a home in the confederate South. We know very little of their activities as many were weapons scientists in Germany and since WW2 the United States has something called a "National Security Act/Bill". Whose sole purpose seems to be to increase militarism.

Racism

Southern Strategy

Zimmerman Trial

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Background:
Understanding GOP-Conservatives: They Lack Self-Awareness
Understanding GOP-Conservatives: They NEVER Blame Thier Own
Understand GOP-Conservatives: They NEVER Blame Thier Own 2

Acquitted Development: The controversial conclusion to the George Zimmerman murder trial suggests it's time for Florida to change the state motto. (06:04)...

Case Study: The Zimmerman Trial