Democracy Now! (7am), for December 6, 2011 - 7:00am
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At Durban Summit, Leading African Activist Calls U.S. Emissions Stance "A Death Sentence for Africa"; Indigenous Activists From Canada Protest Tar Sands Oil at Durban Climate Change Summit; U.S. Focus on China, India Emissions Burdens World’s Poor, Skirts Own Responsibility–Praful Bidwai; Labor Leaders Call for Review of Decision to Host 2013 U.N. Climate Talks in Qatar.
TODAY'S HEADLINES
• 50 Killed in Afghan Bombing Targeting Shia Worshippers
• Pakistan Boycotts Summit on Afghanistan in Germany
• France, Germany Call for Altering E.U. Treaty in Response to Debt Crisis
• Senate Dems Press New Vote on Payroll Tax Cut
• Activists Begin "Take Back the Capitol" Week in D.C.
• Occupy Arrests Continue Nationwide
• Hundreds Arrested Protesting Russian Elections
• Japanese Nuclear Plant Releases More Radioactive Water
• Report: Massey Faces Record Fine for West Virginia Mine Explosion
• 2011 Right Livelihood Recipients Honored in Stockholm
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Obama is to Franklin D. Roosevelt as Jefferson Davis is to Abraham Lincoln.
Obama is in the tradition of the slave house servant with a disparaging title who wore the masters clothes and ate the masters food, the freed slave who fronted for carpetbaggers, and the blacks that fronted for white contractors during the Johnson administration, undermining affirmative action.
The Obama end of Bush/Obama has continually out distanced Bush when it comes to genocide in the Middle east, lobbyist corruption, unemployment of peoples of color, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
We must recognize that so called bipartisanship is a fraud perpetrated by the 1%. It’s brought us the desertification of Glass–Steagal and the collapse the economy, the wars in the middle east, the exporting of jobs, the looting of the U.S. Treasury, and it is about to give the U.S. Military the authority to disappear anyone, anywhere in the world.
The Obama administration has recommended against signing the Disappeared Law. We can only “Hope” that 180 degree Obama keeps his word this time and vetoes it.
Political parties were the way that people united around common beliefs and goals to exercise political will. Unite, get partisan, negotiate from a position of strength:
Cornel West and Ralph Nader are looking for a candidate to run against Obama’s cooperate administration in the Democrat Primary–an action that is way past due.