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    Repiglican Roast

    A spirited discussion of public policy and current issues

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    Location: The mouth of being

    I'm furious about my squandered nation.

    Friday, September 08, 2006

    Defintions

    Trade: Arbitrary shuffling of goods for profit - not determined by need but by greed

    Free Trade: Trade unregulated and unfettered by public concerns or government regulation

    Privatization: a method for taking accountability out of government and passing tax dollars from low income workers into the hands of wealthy corporate owners. Also serves as a tool for removing worker benefits and lowering standard of living

    Globalization: a mechanism by which corporations can consolidate their world wide control over governments and financially attack any populations who might be inclined to fight against corporate control by ravaging their economies through any number of special tools such as Free Trade Agreements, WTO. IMF, etc

    War on Terror: A Media Device which pretends to the public that the ruling class is interested in protecting them from terrorists attacks when the ruling class actually, while acting in its own narrow financial interests, constantly increases the likelihood of world terrorists events; also used to further the more general goals of the international class war and remove the legal mechanisms by which people might protest their oppression. Advances the dominance of the simple minded dualistic black and white analytical framework trained into the young by institutions such as religion, crumbling schools and technologies such as TV

    Democracy: a euphemism for corporate oligarchy

    Free Press: a collection of professional corporate propagandists

    Free Elections: Privatized elections in which votes are counted on heavily hackable machines that are under the control of right wing extremists. Results are predetermined

    The Nations State: An relic of the past. The nation state is no more the seat of power now than is the church which it replaced not that long ago. The locus of power is now the global corporation or multinational

    Lobbyists: People who take corporate money then pay the active members of the government to break the law and act against the best interest of the public

    Democrats: The timid branch of the American right wing

    Republicans: Nazis with better weapons

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