Dvmx's Comments (158)

“Unfortunately, the cruel behavior of the military contingent and the corporates who they serve rings all too true.

What a great final scene though... "I see you."”

“You have to decide who gets your money in light of what they do with it. Whole Foods gets nothing from me.”

“Bill, I'm sorry to say, was the Original BigTime Sellout. Why listen to him now?”

“I wonder what percentage of that gets composted.”

“Obama was supposed to be better than that. But maybe no-one can reign in the MIC which must have it's wars.”

“yeah, in a shipping container”

“Exactly. Thanks for sending that to the public editor. Will he- can he- respond, I wonder.
What's really up with the Times? Why this pattern? Who is pulling what strings? What's the connection between the Hungry War Machine and the New York Times? Is the controlling end at the Military Industrial Complex? Or is it from some Shadow Cabal of international strategists? Is the connection to the Sulzbergers? The financial backers?
How does this really work? What's your guess?”

“Mackey's an arrogant jerk. Let's not make him any richer than he is already.”

“Great post and well said. From many of the comments one can see just what a parlous and confused populace we now have after 20 years of gutted education and corporate media brainwash garbage.
It may be too late.”

“interesting anagram for "chicken little": "hick intellect"”

“As an American I'm proud today. Proud that 60% of us rallied to put an end to the Bush-Cheney nightmare and elect a wonderful man as President.”

“Did the corporate media even notice that obama got the entire security council to sign on to a pledge to seek the elimination of all nuclear weapons?”

“Scalia is an ignorant blowhard”

“maybe cops have been getting some kind of military commando training lately, but this sh* is happening more and more. Inappropriate actions in peacetime civilian settings.”

“it was a bold move, considering, as mentioned, Google already had Google Video. And yet a smart one; YouTube, with Google's help, has become the defacto open-access library of all things ever filmed- quite something!”

“I think this Chicago Olympics trip was a mistake; it in fact demonstrates to what extent lobbyists have indeed infiltrated the administration and it's thinking, insofar as the President assumes he is the Lobbyist in Chief for America apparently.
Quixotic at best, this sideshow diminishes the potential effectiveness of a second trip to Copenhagen in December for the far more important Climate Conference.”

“Yes, agreed. This is one of the best comment logs I've seen.”

“-the chart shows men are happier now than they were then-

Hah! Interesting point...”

“thanks good addition to a great article. I'd only add that it's no longer so much that "corporations are becoming an extension of the government", rather that the governement is becoming an extension of these corporations. The model Mr. Creamer finds in the security services, for example, where taxpayer money trains the staff which the taxpayer must then hire back at exorbitant rates once the recipient has moved on to the private contractor, can also be seen in a general way with Congressional lobbyists for all kinds of corporate parasites. The future highly paid corporate lobbyist learns the ropes- again at taxpayer expense- by spending a term or two in the congress, or as a congressional staffer (dealing with lobbyists). Once he or she has learned how the system is gamed, it's over to the corporate side, where the gaming begins and the salaries are fat. And before you say, 'at least the lobbyists aren't being paid by the taxpayers like those CIA hired Blackwater employees', remember that the whole point of the lobbyists activity is to win lucrative government contracts, derail oversight, and prevent reform- all this coming at the taxpayer's cost.”

“debtor's revolt... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGC1mCS4OVo”

“He should resign.”

“it would help if we'd stop seeing money as a reward deserved by the diligent and clever, and started seeing it as the lubricant of transactions, a necessary resource which must remain, to a large extent, evenly spread through society to guarantee optimal functioning.
When a tiny percentage of people amass huge sums while the vast majority penny-pinch and borrow and forego, you are bound to get a dead economy sooner or later. After all, what are those raking in a million a week or more going to do with all that money? How fast can you spend? They put it in financial instruments- and it only grows bigger... but it is no longer greasing the wheels of our transaction-based society model, which grinds to a halt.”

“Obviously the oligarchic corporations taking over the functions of governance without transparency and accountability had no place for Van Jones, a leader of The People. The path of government by the people and government by the "economic royalists" are utterly separate, it is an existential gap Obama cannot bridge with all his skills. So out goes Van Jones, and The People lose another fight in the struggle.
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few and the Republic is destroyed." -Abraham Lincoln
And for what it's worth, you are wrong about 911.”

“well said, thank you!”

“Though often right about food. Pollan is wrong on this. The middle class is getting screwed from all sides, thanks to delusional, ego-inflated, overpaid fatcat CEO's, and it seems Mackey is just another one of these sociopathic parasites. Screw them. There are farmer's markets and plenty of other places to go, much cheaper too. What a dickhead.”