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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Tuesday said — once again — that "no" means "no."
Christie said he's not running for the GOP nomination for President and won't be talked into it.
"It just doesn't feel right," Christie said.
"What I always thought was the right decision remains the right decision," Christie told reporters in a press conference in New Jersey. "Now is not my time."
Christie admitted he reconsidered his earlier decision not to run because of increasing pressure from well-heeled Republican donors not happy with the current slate of GOP candidates.
"I felt an obligation to seriously consider what people were asking me to do. For me, the answer was never anything but no," he said. "It never felt right to me."
For Republicans still searching for the right candidate to deny President Barack Obama a second term in office, the present crop of candidates doesn't feel right to them.
With potential frontrunners rapidly surging and then falling in the polls, the big-money donors who could fund a serious effort against Obama might settle on former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney or they may still wait to see if another candidate emerges.
For Christie, the decision was now or never.
For others still on the sidelines, never may be now.
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I thought we would have learned our lesson from the last election. Oops, I forgot, this is America v 2.0. My bad…
Any one but the current puppet, party before principle, tell 'em what they wanna hear in order to gain the power, the keys to the kingdom.
Ahhh…the television, the lies, they soothe me, soooo comfy and warm.
Go back to sleep America, we'll wake you when it's over…
As long as people are easily diverted by a hugh veil of lies and deceptions…that keep them emotionally disconnect, which distances them from the sources they have to examine the problems with political machines and government…live in America is going to get really hard.
As so many times voiced by CHB regulars…and certainly in probably dozens of columns by Doug – WE HAVE A SYSTEMIC problem that's bigger than any individual who claims to be able to bring about some type of miracle resolve for this country's many problems.
Those who even are capable of reaching the masses to make claims that they can fix our problems are themselves by-products of the problems.
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House Republicans and Democrats will gather separately next week to fill vacant leadership positions.
On the GOP side, the only major post at issue is that of House majority leader, vacated by Jerry Keen, R-St. Simons Island. James Mills of Gainesville and Larry O'Neal of Bonaire are the two candidates. The GOP caucus meets Monday.
The politics are far more precarious among Democrats, who next Wednesday will be asked to elect a successor to House Minority Leader DuBose Porter of Dublin who left the chamber to make a run for governor.
Porter is a vanishing breed in the House – a white male Democrat.
The next leader of the caucus will be African-American. The announced candidates are Stacey Abrams of Atlanta, who was Lisa Borders' campaign manager in the 2009 race for mayor of Atlanta, and Virgil Fludd of Tyrone.
The question, which must be posed delicately, is this: Which one best represents the promise of reviving the biracial coalition that is the only hope of returning Democrats to statewide prominence? The formula for success in Georgia has been, roughly, 90 percent of the African-American vote plus 35 percent of white voters.
Democrats estimate that their candidates pulled 22 percent or so of white Georgia voters on Tuesday.
Add to this the fact that Abrams, we're told, remains much at odds with Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed – whose sway in the party organization increased on Tuesday.
Many Democrats are urging a third figure into the race for minority leader: state Rep. Calvin Smyre of Columbus, an African-American who is currently caucus chair and a former chairman of the state Democratic party. Smyre is – beyond any doubt – the most well-connected Democrat in the state.
And he has long provided much of the glue that has held white and black Democrats in the Capitol together over the years.
Moreover, neither Abrams nor Fludd has been through a redistricting session – which next year could be very ugly indeed.
But here's the thing: Smyre has been in the House for 36 years. Retirement must come eventually. If it comes in two years – even four years – then choosing Smyre next week would simply delay resolution of a pressing question.
In that case, it might be better to give the next generation its chance. And keep Smyre in reserve and use his status as a kind of fire extinguisher for emergencies.
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November 5th, 2010
1:27 pm
Isn't Abrams the one who ran the horrid campaign for Lisa Borders. Why is she even being considered. Democrats never learn.
November 5th, 2010
1:35 pm
Smyre is nothing more than a puppet of Synovus Bank – doesn't really care about any legislation unless he's told to do so by the Bank.
November 5th, 2010
1:41 pm
If the Dems want any chance in 2012, there is NO way Pelosi should get the nod.
November 5th, 2010
1:45 pm
James Mills is the conservative leader in this race. He's the lifelong republican, he's the only one endorsed by the GRTL, NFIB and he's got an "A+" from the NRA. He's been taking the fight to Dubose and the House dems for 18 years and I sincerely hope that the House Caucus will elect him Majority Leader.
By the way, didn't O'Neal run as a Democrat against Pam Bohannon in the late '90's?
November 5th, 2010
1:54 pm
So the democrats have come to a crossroads? It looks as if doesn't matter which path is chosen: it's all down hill. If the democrats want to find the real culprit for the problems they niow face, they need to re-visit the 1960's. Lyndon Johnson was told by Senator Richard Russell that the far-reaching legislation proposed by LBJ in his plans for "The Great Society" would cost democrats the southern vote for the remainder of their lives and beyond. Although Senator Russell was specifically speaking of the Congressional, Senatorial and Presidential elections, the trickle-down politics also has its' affects on state offices. Senator Russell was a very wise man.
November 5th, 2010
1:57 pm
It really doesn't matter who will be the house minority leader. The Democratic party has seen their day. Their power is over for several generations in this state.
November 5th, 2010
2:00 pm
Also, Caucus Vice Chair is at stake on the GOP side. Matt Ramsey and Calvin Hill are the two candidates I've heard. This will fill the vacancy left open when Jeff Mays decided to run for PSC.
November 5th, 2010
2:19 pm
The Dems have only themselves to blame. On the national level, they force ultra liberal agendas down the throats of moderates, insist on certain percentages of blacks, hispanics, gays, etc, in every position of leadership…..and then they pretend to wonder why straight, white, males abandon them all over the country.
The Georgia General Assembly is only the most recent manifestation. Give it another election cycle, and there won't be any white male Dems left at all. Sen. Hooks and Rep. Powell will switch, or retire and become lobbyists.
November 5th, 2010
2:36 pm
I nominate Bookman since he is a great cheerleader for them at the local rag, the ajc.
November 5th, 2010
2:37 pm
Oh great!! Nathan Deal, Casey Cagle and now James Mills? I guess we will truly be the State of Hall County, GA!! Surely there are qualified people from other parts of the state. Not that Mills doesn't fit in with the other two – don't forget the stalking incident a few years ago here in the State of Hall County. So we get a crook, a hound, and a creepy little Ralph Reed type.
November 5th, 2010
2:45 pm
The quote in the article " The formula for success in Georgia has been, roughly, 90 percent of the African-American vote plus 35 percent of white voters" speaks volumes. If white voters voted en masse for any candidate or political party, they would immediately be branded as racists. Why is it that blacks continue to be judged by a separate standard from the rest of society? That double standard does more to create ill will toward blacks than rednecks and the Klan could ever do. If blacks want to be taken seriously- really seriously- they need to stop blindly following the democrats and start thinking as individuals.
November 5th, 2010
2:59 pm
The Democratic Party in Georgia is dead. There is no way around it. This really shouldn't a surprise to anyone who knows anything about practical politics or political science. The fact is that as the parties' ideologies–to the extent that they have them–changed, the electorate slowly realigned. Abramowitz at Emory has been writing about this for years. The Democratic Party death began on election night in 2002, and last Tuesday was the door shutting at the funeral home after the service.
November 5th, 2010
3:00 pm
@AJ: Read Michael Dawson. Google his name, and–if you REALLY care about this as much as you seem to–read his book(s).
November 5th, 2010
3:04 pm
Like a dumb ass I voted for self described blue dog Sanford Bishop. Now there is word that Nancy Pelosi will NOT go away and is going to run for House Minority Leader. I bet anything Bishop will vote for her again. These people just simply don't get it and will never go away I guess. Half of the people is SWGA are stupid like me as well.
November 5th, 2010
3:05 pm
982- "Oh great!! Nathan Deal, Casey Cagle and now James Mills? I guess we will truly be the State of Hall County, GA!!"
It is NOT where your FROM it is where you STAND on the issues! Liberal former Dem Larry O'Neal, Liberal Republican Ed Lindsey and House Speaker David Ralston are ALL attorneys. Is that really in Georgia's best interests?
November 5th, 2010
3:14 pm
this is a one party state. the majority whites are republicans and minority blacks are democrats. there is a little cross over.
November 5th, 2010
3:20 pm
For all of you wickedly smart pundits, there is also a state-level form of government. When Galloway referred to the House, he meant the Georgia House of Representatives. Nancy Pelosi presides over the US House of Representatives. Please open your 8th grade civic books to page …
Now I see why Georgia politics are so scary.
November 5th, 2010
3:41 pm
get rid of jane kidd at the helm of the georgia democratic party and pick out someone else.after the democratic party of georgia flooded conservative mailboxes around the state with there lying rape allegations against deal,no wonder nobody likes the democraps, that had to been one of the dumbest and lowest things they could have done and it backfired, see ya!
November 5th, 2010
3:43 pm
bo knows! But I will continue to vote for the party of FDR because I am old enough to remember. My savings are protected by the FDIC, my lights come on when I flip the switch because of the REA, I can go to state and national parks because of the CCC and until Bill Clinton joined the Republican Congress and removed controls on the Robber Barons my investments were safe (so much for working with a Republican Congress).
November 5th, 2010
3:49 pm
November 5th, 2010
3:05 pm
It is NOT where your FROM it is where you STAND on the issues! Liberal former Dem Larry O'Neal, Liberal Republican Ed Lindsey and House Speaker David Ralston are ALL attorneys. Is that really in Georgia's best interests?
Is it that they are all attorneys or that they are "liberals" that bothers you?
And BTW, where they STAND on the issues is exactly why I don't like Deal, Cagle or Mills. I live in Hall County and know these people and if this is the best we can do, God help us!!
November 5th, 2010
3:52 pm
AJ, whites in Georgia ARE voting en masse for Republicans already. Maybe you're right, but I don't think it was nice for you to call all of them racists.
Why is it okay for 78% of whites to support one party, but not 90% of African-Americans to support another?
November 5th, 2010
3:56 pm
At least Jill Chambers (R-Dunwoody) got the boot. That's a little bit of good news for those that want metro Atlanta to develop transit. I know Deal and the GOP are not going to lift a finger to help metro Atlanta reduce gridlock – but life will be more pleasant without having to listen to Jill Chamber's self-serving grand-standing as head of the MARTOC committee.
November 5th, 2010
3:57 pm
If blacks haven't figured out yet that they are being used by the Democratic party as guinea pigs for their social experiments and dupes in their vote buying schemes it is their own fault. The republicans are just about as horrible with the constituencies they can always "count on" like the religious right and so-called conservatives.
Neither party has any principles so it will be difficult for anyone to truly claim a leadership position in either group.
It would be nice if the democrats would follow the lead of Dennis Kucinich in opposing and voting against Obama's imperial and illegal wars. Much of the house had a spine on this issue when they were Bush's illegal imperial wars but expectedly turned useless when one of their own got elected.
As for the republicans, it would be nice to see them vote in Ron Paul as Speaker of the House. The massive financial hemorraging of our economy will not end until we face up to the reality that the imperial war budget must be cut. What is going on now with spending has nothing to do with Defense and to treat every line item of spending as if it were does a disservice to sanity and common sense. Defending Japan, France, Germany, England???? Come on people, this is just destroying our economy and helping THEIR'S.
November 5th, 2010
3:57 pm
WAW must have paid attention in history class, you know, they one he or she lived. Thanks for the insight.
November 5th, 2010
3:58 pm
WAW – Wow, you bought the government lies hook, line and sinker.
November 5th, 2010
3:58 pm
Hmmmmmmmmm, the repubs took over when those Diebold voting machines came along………….
I wonder how much they pay their hackers ?
November 5th, 2010
3:59 pm
1. Johnson was speaking to Russell about the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The legislation concerning the core of the "Great Society" (the creation of Medicare and Medicaid & the creation of the then Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, the War on Poverty) was a separate matter.
2. WAW is absolutely right. The majority of GA and the SE would be like the rural SW if it had not been for government intervention and subsidizing the development of public/private partnerships. AGL and GA Power spent 60 years (1880-1940) doing absolutely nothing to bring utilities to rural and poor Georgia…
November 5th, 2010
4:08 pm
Peach Girl:
"Nancy Pelosi presides over the US House of Representatives"
Not for long, though, and she probably will not be the Minority Leader either.
November 5th, 2010
4:11 pm
There's still a Democratic Party in GA? Sad, but our state's political parties will likely break more and more along racial lines. Pretty pathetic and not at all good for our state or its citizens.
November 5th, 2010
4:14 pm
AJ: Why do blacks have to stop following the Dem party? Once again please answer this question if Nathan Deal had been a Black Rep with the same crooked record would white conservatives have voted for him? I think we all know this one"
Why should we follow a party that does not respect the office of the President of the United States, blacks did not like Bush but did you see us going around calling him names?
Soon as you get these racist bigots like Rush L, who makes million of dollars off of poor white, feeding them the we vs them crap while he has pulled in over 50 million.
There is hope for the Black Rep party, not in Georgia, look at Deal staff, did you see any minorties? This is why everday I tell young blacks kids to stop playing football and basketball for the UGA, GT of this state, because all you are to conservatives whites in Georgia is entertainment.
November 5th, 2010
4:36 pm
This is an irrelevant story. Georgia is a red state and the majority of voters in this state will vote for whomever has a (R) beside their name, regardless of qualifications. Did you notice how there seemed to be a lot of anger with Georgia voters this year, but that anger was at Washington and not at our Capitol, even though GA (the STATE of GA) ranks near the bottom in education, in employment and has virtually no real transportation vision unless it involves asphalt? None of those major issues are being driven by Washington but our own state leaders, and the voters of this state just voted R, R, R, R so we will end up with the same old, same old results.
November 5th, 2010
4:43 pm
"This is why everday I tell young blacks kids to stop playing football and basketball for the UGA, GT of this state"
If you cared about those young black kids, you would be telling them to go to the best college they can get a scholarship from to get the best education possible. Athletics are fine, but the education should be the primary focus.
November 5th, 2010
4:48 pm
I agree with much you say with the exception of the gubernatorial election. Barnes was a known and unwanted quantity. He had four years as governor and the electorate turned him out. I could see no chance of being elected this time, either.
The issues you stated are daunting and they will be addressed, if only by the legislature forcing attention to these matters.
November 5th, 2010
5:11 pm
to Ummmmm @ 3:52- The article said that conventional Democratic strategy was to win 90% of black votes and 65% of white votes. If that occurred, that would leave 65% of whites voting Republican, not the 78% that you referenced. My point is that there is a double standard of block voting by race and that blacks do themselves a disservice by generally voting for the democrat, irregardless of either candidate's qualifications. That means that the Republican candidates don't have much of a reason to even consider blacks as possible constituents while in office, does it? If blacks (as a group) voted for the more qualified candidate, they, along with whites, hispanics, asians, and everyone else would see better results in government. Wishful thinking, I guess.
November 5th, 2010
5:12 pm
Sorry- math error- first sentence should have read 35% of white votes, not the 65% I typed in.
November 5th, 2010
5:21 pm
@GM at 4:14- I think I get your points. Face it- both candidates this election were scumbags. I voted for Deal only because I had some arms-length business dealings with Barnes when he was in office and I GUARANTEE you that he was dirty. Trust me on that one. I agree that there are plenty of white racists, but I hope that you will be open to realizing that there are plenty of black racists, too. You need look no further than the new black panthers and the majority of churches that serve the black community. I think you will find that the vast majority of whites bear you no ill will, but are fed up with the double standard that is in effect for people who happen to be black. That double standard creates a tremendous amount of frustration to whites. It's time we all start looking at oursleves as Americans and not whites or blacks, gays or straights, or democrats or republicans. Again, wishful thinking….
November 5th, 2010
5:25 pm
November 5th, 2010
4:14 pm
"blacks did not like Bush but did you see us going around calling him names?"
Who are you trying to kid? Sharpton. Jackson, Waters. Mckinney, … I could go and pull over 100 quotes for you that did nothing but cut down Bush.
November 5th, 2010
6:33 pm
@ Last Man…
"If you cared about those young black kids, you would be telling them to go to the best college they can get a scholarship from to get the best education possible."
That certainly wouldn't be the University of Georgia… There is no degree awarded on the bachelor degree level at the State flagship institution which can not acquired at one of the satellite schools without ending up like Joshua Nesbitt did last night. Tech is a little bit of different scenario simply because they are given a monopoly on the physical sciences and engineering principles in this State. But GM is right, you can parse all you like…
@ Jeffrey…
The Georgia General Assembly has not addressed a true issue since 1992 when they finally took on the lottery and distribution formula for the revenues. Since that time they have kicked every can and bottle down the road. They play at the taxpayers expense and pass their faux rage at "Washington." The Legislature and its phony sessions has more to do with we continue to feel the recession to this day… Still, I understand what will happen in January, I put on a metal chastity belt Wednesday morning…
November 5th, 2010
6:36 pm
The Legislature and its phony sessions has more to do with "why" we continue to feel the recession to this day…
November 5th, 2010
6:47 pm
"You need look no further than the new black panthers and the majority of churches that serve the black community."
That is like going ape over a Klan Rally at Georgia Southern supporting a psychology student who refused to provide unbiased therapy sessions to same sex couples because she does not believe in it as a lifestyle. You can pick out that small segment, and it is .005% of the whole America. If you get indignant about the "New Black Panthers" or "Black Salvation Theology." you're wasting good time!
November 5th, 2010
6:54 pm
Well, just pardon the hell out of me! I didn't name a school or specify the state of Georgia, did I?
"If you cared about those young black kids, you would be telling them to go to the best college they can get a scholarship from to get the best education possible"
I guess you will need to point out to me where I mentioned either UGA or GT.
November 5th, 2010
7:02 pm
"Who should lead them out of the wilderness?"
A: Anyone willing to call for the heads of Bush and Cheney, and the expropriation and extirpation of the Roman Anti-Christ's "Fifth Column" in America.
November 5th, 2010
8:17 pm
WAW and Ummm, do the math – Let's see if we can't straighten the two of you out on economics and history.
First, the FDIC doesn't guarantee your savings. The american taxpayer does. This guarantee allows banks to behave recklessly with your money with the clear knowledge that the american taxpayer will pick up the tab if they fail. Currently the FDIC is billions and billions of dollars in debt themselves thanks to the recklessnes the program has bred. So your money may appear safe, but how much have you lost in taxes, etc. because of the presence of the FDIC. And by the way, if the banks pittance they pay to the FDIC covered losses, they would not be that much in debt.
Second, you have electricity because the company that sells you electricity has a business incentive to make sure the lines go to your house and that they are intact and delivering you their product. The real question to ask is why should any taxpayer have their money stolen (yes, that's where government money comes from) just so that someone else can have wiring run to their home? That is socialism and outright theft.
November 5th, 2010
8:24 pm
Then there is the issue of the state and federal parks. The "government" didn't create those. They used stolen taxpayer money to "purchase" them from the wealthy land owners like the Rockefellers (who own all the beautiful land adjacent to Yellowstone. What this did was allow the Rockefellers to make a huge fortune off the sale while using the restrictive power of the park service to make sure that nobody else lives near their land and that only a handful are allowed to stay in the park in designated areas that don't bother them. What the CCC has to do with any of this I am not sure, but certainly every dollar spent on aquisition and upkeep is stolen from taxpayers or the limited number of guests that are "allowed" to visit during each year. As for the national forests, there is no bigger big business kickback program in the country (except maybe the two wars). Private lumber companies pay pennies on the dollar of what the lumber is worth to come in and rape the land while the taxpayer again pays for road construction and the like to make it easy for the trucks to get the lumber out. On private lands, timber is rarely clear cut, forests are carefully managed and the land is treated with respect because it is privately owned. It is in the interest of folks like Georgia Pacific and others to maintain a healthy and profitable renewable forest.
November 5th, 2010
8:34 pm
Then there is the situation of your investments. The problem with these began with another socialist progressive Woodrow Wilson. He pushed for and got the Federal Reserve which allowed him to inflate his way to paying for WWI. The Federal Reserve's extra money created a bubble that burst immediately following the war. The wise Warren Harding ignored the advice of his idiot sec. of treasury Herbert Hoover and allowed the dust to settle where it needed to and the debt and misallocations to correct themselves without government intervention. Despite the fact that the crisis was worse than the crash of 1929, this crisis resolved itself within 1 1/2 years. The Fed then began inflating the money supply again which led to the stock market bubble that burst in 29. Hoover got his chance to try his idiotic government intervention. FDR actually condemned Hoover's massive spending spree as irresponsible and ran on a fiscally conservative ticket. So much for that. He simply continued Hoover's policies and today, even such liberal universities as UCLA have concluded that FDR's actions prolonged the Depression and that it likely would have ended in only a couple of years had he just kept his nose out of it. Additionally, he stole the gold from all americans in 1934, immediately changed the value of gold from 20 dollars per oz to 35 (a number he pulled out of the air over breakfast one morning), and this allowed him the extra money to spend, spend, spend. Meanwhile, this inflation further erroded the value of everyone's dollars and savings. Today the Fed continues this reckless inflation and since Nixon completely separated the dollar from gold's inherent limits on inflation the dollar has lost an addition 70% of its value. The dot com bubble of the 80's and 90's and the housing bubble we have just seen are all the product of the loose monetary policy of the Fed. The reckless behavior of Wall Street and the Bankers is just the natural result of eliminating the responsibility component by making the taxpayers the suckers who pick up the tab. Yes, blame Clinton, but blame every president since Wilson too for they were all responsible for not abolishing the Fed.
November 5th, 2010
8:43 pm
Now let's look at FDR. We already saw that his policies were the cause of the Depression lasting so long (and of course Obama is following suit with the same kind of failed policies). He stole all the gold from americans and we only got the right to own it back in 1974. But he also was responsible for provoking the Japanese into attacking Pearl Harbor. It is well documented that his blockade of Japan, cutting off their oil and food supply, force the Japanese hand and was described to him by Admiral Stinson, his secretary of war as and act of war itself. It is also well docuemented that FDR knew about the attack on Pearl Harbor and let it happen without warning anyone because he was desperate to drag the country into the war despite the overwhelming opposition among americans (sound familiar – looks like this is in the democrat playbook). He also felt that such massive government spending would pull us out of the depression (it didn't. only his death and the end of the war and his horrible policies did that), and he needed to pay back his friends in industry with massive government welfare spending on the wartime economy.
I learned a lot of government propaganda in school, but then I got out and bothered to get a real education in economics and history. The victors always get to write the history books. Only the gullible and the ignorant believe them without checking other sources.
FDR was one of the worst presidents we had. The pain and suffering his policies caused continue to this day with the societal dependence on the beyond bankrupt Social Security system and the massive government bureaucracy that is sucking the life from our economy. Sadly so many are like you two – ignorant of history and believers in fantasies written in government approved text books.
November 5th, 2010
10:13 pm
Take one of your pills and go to bed. You are wound up waaaaaaay too tight, dude.
November 5th, 2010
10:37 pm
Has it occured to you, Mr. Liberty, that no one wants to debate you because you are WAY CRAZY??? I'll bet you get a Social Security check every month, though. Do you send it back? Just asking.
November 6th, 2010
12:25 am
Goldman Sachs will lead the Democrats out of the mess and than throw them under the Bus to make sure they are dead again like they did to the Republicans………….
November 6th, 2010
2:50 am
Jesse Ventura seeks truth, and puts it on his TV show.
Last night he nailed the banksters' racket of unconstitutional money from the Fed, and how it is destroying the People while making fascist plutocracy more powerful. Nice that he nailed the papists, too…look up "Legatus"…be American, learn something new every day.


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We All Need to Extend More Courtesy to the Semi-Truck Drivers On Our Roads
Colorado Banned Vanity Plates Will Make You Giggle
Heroic Police Officer Saves Man From Fiery Gas Station Crash [VIDEO]
Google Builds its Own Self-Driving Car [VIDEO]
Learn the Fascinating History Behind the Names of 32 Popular Cars [VIDEO]
Todd's Favorite Things About the 2014 Nissan Juke He Has Been Driving
Girl Hits Man While Texting and Admits She Doesn't Care
Denver Auto Show – Cool Cars & Trucks & Vans [PICTURES]
When my wife Jenny asked me if I would like to go to the Denver Auto Show at the Colorado Convention Center with her parents, I said, "sure", but I had no idea!
Spare Tires No Longer Come 'Standard' In All New Cars
Did you know that about half of car makers now don't include a spare tire with the purchase of a new car? Not ever one of those lame little dummy tires!) I know everyone is looking for places to skim and skimp and save a few bucks, but really?! If I drop between 10 and 50-thousand dollars on a new car, there had better be some sort of spare tire in it!


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Get in RAREFORM!
Tonight we're offering amazingly cool surfing gear from RAREFORM, a California company that is dedicated to saving the beauty of our planet while helping help its customers enjoy it. Jordan Shavarebi investigates the story behind the brand.
If you've ever thought about trading in your business suit for a wet suit, this eco-friendly surfer dude fairytale might be of major interest to you. The surfer dude is one Alec Avedissian, and the fairytale begins as most fairytales do: With a discontented protagonist in a somewhat oppressive place.
Alec worked in investment banking and renewable energy, but had a tsunami-sized urge to go on a six-month surf trip through South America with his buddies. So that's exactly what he did. He divided his time up between surfing perfect breaks and consulting with rural businesses in El Salvador. The place was beautiful, but the lakes and rivers were dangerously polluted and the beaches were littered with trash.
As if visited by an environmentally conscious Fairy Godmother, he had a revelation. He decided he wanted to reduce the waste in the world and sustain the mountains, rivers, and oceans that he loved so dearly. A friend told him that billboards could be recycled and turned into bags. This is when the fairytale gets good.
In 2012, Alec recruited a handful of friends and business partners and founded RAREFORM. They began intercepting billboards before they reached landfills and transforming them into unique, eco-friendly bags for surfboards, paddles, and wetsuits. It's a modern day pumpkin-to-carriage miracle. Bippity-boppity-cool.
Each product is manufactured in California. 1% of each sale is donated to an organization that's dedicated to saving the planet. And Alec got his fairytale ending: A company with a heart for the planet and an eye on the waves.
We're totally obsessed with every sustainable, stylish, one-of-a-kind bag from RAREFORM, so naturally, we wanted to know more. We got some answers from the enchanted prince surfer dude himself, Alec Avedissian.
Is the act of "intercepting billboards" as daring/exciting as it sounds?
Haha, no. RAREFORM now has partnerships with outdoor advertising companies, specifically Lamar Advertising. We help them reduce their waste, they get to do something positive for their customers, and together we can reduce the amount of material going to the landfills
What sort of charities and organizations does the 1% go to?
We work with an organization called 1% For The Planet. They take 1% of our sales and work with environmental groups around the world, doing things to change the world for the better. We do this as a simple pledge to the environment.
How does surfing compare to investment banking?
I love surfing. I could surf everyday—especially if the waves are good and I'm with my friends and family. As far as my short time with the investment bank went, I learned that life is too short to put off the things that you really want to do…the things that are really important to you. A revelation like that is pretty "surfer," if you ask me.
You made a pretty drastic career switch. How's it been?
Right before I started RAREFORM I was actually working for a US solar panel manufacturer. The switch has been exciting, stressful, and fun. I have learned about so many aspects of business, things that I never could have learned if I'd stayed where I was. The career switch was not "safe," but I have great co-founders, great mentors, and great friends who have helped and guided me along the way.
Where did your interest in the environment come from?
I first became interested in the environment when I was living in El Salvador. The rivers, beaches, and forests were so pristine but littered with trash and plastic. I think seeing that in a new setting, outside of California, was eye-opening.
And what do you think it will take to get everyone at your level of interest?
I think everyone is actually becoming more and more aware of how our actions directly affect our environment. It will take time, but when people are given the opportunity to work with eco-friendly companies, I think they'll feel compelled to do the right thing.
The pictures and videos on your site are pretty awesome. What can you tell us about the location?
The videos and photos on our site were all taken near Ventura County. We wanted to relate to our community and those close to us, so we thought Ventura would be the perfect place.
We think repurposing is awesome, too. Any crafty ideas when it comes to using your surfboard bags, paddle covers, and change mats when we're away from the waves?
Definitely! I know some people use the surfboard bags as snowboard bags. Others use the paddle covers as tennis racquet covers, and the change mats as dirty clothes hampers or beach bags.
Now that you know all there is to know about RAREFORM, why don't you take a peek at its products Who knows… a single bag just might set off a magical chain of events that leads you into your own eco-friendly surfer dude fairytale. It's possible.
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The State Fair of Texas
Anthony Bourdain Disses Frito Pie Recipe, Says Texas Does It Best
Insults dished out by Emmy Award-winning TV host and food critic Anthony Bourdain on an episode of CNN's "Parts Unknown" have stirred up outrage in New Mexico.
Everything Old New Again At State Fair Of Texas
With all the usual fanfare, the State Fair of Texas embarked on its annual 24-day run on Friday.
Ro2 Art Downtown Announces Brian K. Jones: Meanwhile … back in Dallas!
Oak Cliff artist Brian Keith Jones, one-half of the famed Dallas collective, Chuck & George, presents his first-ever solo exhibition tonight at Ro2 Art Downtown.


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'American Reunion' Worth Attending
Glenn Kenny, Special to MSN Movies
Something awful happened between "American Pie," the lame but highly popular teen-raunch comedy of 1999, and "American Reunion," the fourth and, frankly, kind of enjoyable installment in what became a franchise. And I think that awful thing has something to do with why someone who felt considerable discomfort watching the first film, didn't really mind watching the new film.
That something awful is actually two awful things, both of which are movies with the titles "The Hangover." The two films in that successful comedic franchise are sufficiently hateful and misogynist to make the whole "American Pie" world view look relatively sweet and even, dare I say it, female-empowering, if not actually feminist. As much as "American Pie" wallowed in its sophomoric "Playboy Party Joke" humor, at least it paid something like lip service to the imperative of female sexual pleasure. The "Hangover" de-evolution of the studio sex comedy not only celebrates the ugliest aspects of boys-will-be-boys bad behavior, but treat women largely as actual impediments to getting off. Of course, once that point is made, the "Hangover" pictures run like hell from the ultimate implications of it. (It is perhaps no accident that "American Reunion" is, in large part, explicitly gay-friendly.) Not to mention that the raunch levels of the "Hangover" pictures that coyly flirt with actual sadism in a sickly persistent way that makes, say, the act of putting one's junk into baked goods look positively wholesome.
I never thought I'd ever find Stifler cute. I never gave any thought to the idea that I might ever find Stifler cute. But I think of "Hangover" star Bradley Cooper's unctuous, too-cool smirk, and I contrast it with Seann William Scott's goofball, manic grin, and I think: You know, Stifler's kind of cute. I kind of like him.
This relative sweetness isn't the only thing "American Reunion" has going for it. It's got some pretty good jokes, too. OK, maybe they aren't that good, but they're performed with excellent timing. Most of them focus, as they will, on the varying sexual humiliations of erotic schlemiel Jim (Jason Biggs). The movie was written and directed by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, the comic dynamos behind the "Harold and Kumar" movies, and while they can't cut loose with this material in the same way they do with those movies, they DO, for instance, know how to get the best out of comic actor John Cho, their "Harold and Kumar" co-star who was, in fact, in the first two "Pie" films and is funnier here in a smaller role than he was in the other pictures. They're also smart enough to put the great comic actor Eugene Levy to better use than the prior films, to the point of finally giving him some interaction here with "Stifler's mom," that is, Jennifer Coolidge, with whom he frequently interacts with in director Christopher Guest's semi-improvised, more sophisticated comedies.
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Not that this is what you'd call a comedy home run. It's almost two hours long, about 20 minutes longer than it ought to be, and its reverently conventional three-act structure is pretty ... uninspired. The movie sometimes tends to the priggish side, as in its portrayal of sweet jock Oz's loose-moraled, Hollywoodized girlfriend. Concentrating on the sex problems of the once amiably freaky Jim and Michelle (the reliably adorable Alyson Hannigan), gives Jim an unwelcome distraction in the form of a one-time babysitting charge, the now nubile, gamine and extremely game Kara (Ali Cobrin, who's pretty game herself). The spectacle of a nearly middle-aged male going all agog at the hotness of a woman half his age is not nearly as amusing as Hollywood seems to think it is, honestly. Really, I know they don't make movies about most men, but most men can in fact look at a beautiful young woman and not suffer a major existential crisis as a result.
But, still, the amiability of the proceedings almost convinces you that the project's heart is in the right place, and given the horrors of the raunchy comedy I've had to sit through in the past thirteen years, I even found myself happy to see Tara Reid, and rooted for her as she didn't stumble too badly through her line readings. It brought me back; back to a simpler time. A time before Zach Galifianakis could waltz through a creative sewer and hold his nose over the prospect of working with Mel Gibson, simultaneously.
Glenn Kenny is chief film critic for MSN Movies. He was the chief film critic for Premiere magazine from 1998 to 2007. He contributes to various publications and websites, and blogs at http://somecamerunning.typepad.com. He lives in Brooklyn.
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I agree with that.
If you watch the last two games Austin played in last season you see some promise in his development. Last year was kind of like a rookie season for him. I think Mike Patterson has a bigger chance...
From that youtube video it seems that he began playing a lot better in those last two games. He might surprise us this next year.
Cant make the playoffs without alot of help though.
Eh you keep saying that 17 points thing but the only reason they didn't score more is because they didn't need to. They made it into field goal range with a minute left with their 4 minute drill. ...
Prince's TD pass he gave up he actually got a hand on the ball. It just so happened that the ball was deflected luckily into the belly of the receiver.
King Dunlap
"Giants Diehl with Pressure"
Isnt it bizarre that no one brings this up in the media?
Hakeem Nicks had over 100 yds in the Super Bowl. I don't think Beli stopped him at all.
I dont blame those fans one bit.
I say we are a 13-7 team.
Call me crazy but i think hynoski is going to get some recognition this year. He started coming on last year
No, but the last thing I heard that Reese is real high on the speedy kid Scott and want to give him the opportunity to start so, don't be surprise if he decided to stay in house. I like the kid Scott...
We were actually favored in that Atlanta game
Haha, still calls timeout. Man that was awesome.
I respect the hell out of that 49ers team. If the Giants weren't in the playoffs they would be the only team Id want to root for.
haha the Blackburn double take is great
Anybody put money on the G-men to win this game? They were plus 300. I had a 20 spot on em to win. Who else?
I look for reasons to not call out refs but this is just mind blowing. Seriously the fumble call when they had time to review was amazing.


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World Wars Decides Who Controls World Trade
United States President Woodrow Wilson is known as one of the most peaceful presidents America has ever had. But he knew control of resources and trade was the goal of all powerful nations:
Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed against him must be battered down. Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused.[1]
When two or more powerful nations deny each other equal trading rights, war develops. Spain, Holland, Portugal, and France had been overwhelmed by British sea power and cunning control of markets.
Otto von Bismarck, unifier of the German nation, deduced "free trade is the weapon of the dominant economy anxious to prevent others from following in its path."[2]
Studying the development philosophy of Friedrich List, he consolidated the German nation in the late 1800s and industrialized—"factories, machinery, and techniques were bought whole-sale, usually from England."[3]
Kaiser Wilhelm carried on Bismarck's development policies. At first German manufactures were of inferior quality, just as Japan's products were later when it first industrialized. However, it did not take the Germans long to learn.
By 1913, Germany had 60,000 university students to Britain's 9,000, and 3,000 engineering students to Britain's 350. German industries were not only out-producing Britain, they were producing superior products.[4]
Earlier, in 1888, philosopher T.H. Huxley outlined the disaster that would befall Britain if it should ever lose its dominance in trade:
We not only are, but, under penalty of starvation, we are bound to be, a nation of shopkeepers. But other nations also lie under the same necessity of keeping shop, and some of them deal in the same goods as ourselves. Our customers naturally seek to get the most and the best in exchange for their produce. If our goods are inferior to those of our competitors, there is no ground, compatible with the sanity of the buyers, which can be alleged, why they should not prefer the latter. And if the result should ever take place on a large and general scale, five or six millions of us would soon have nothing to eat.[5] [26 years later, when Britain was threatened with just such a loss, WW I began.]
Outlining that the concern was Germany's threat to British trade, in 1897 the publication Saturday Review wrote: "If Germany were extinguished tomorrow, the day after tomorrow there is not an Englishman in the world who would not be richer.
Nations have fought for years over a city or right of succession; must they not fight for two hundred fifty million pounds sterling of yearly commerce?"[6]
Britain's survival depended upon selling overpriced manufactured products and losing those markets would collapse her economy. As their "national interest" was at stake, she had signed pacts with France, Austria-Hungary, Italy, and eventually Russia, all designed to contain Germany.
Austria-Hungary changed sides and the clash of interests in the Balkans between the competing imperial centers of capital led directly to WW I. WW II was partially a replay of WW I.[7] Before that War, Europe
was "stifling" within her boundaries, with production everywhere outstripping the European demand for manufactured products. All Europe was therefore "driven by necessity to seek new markets far away," and "what more secure markets" could a nation possess than "countries placed under its influence?."… The rapid growth of German trade and the far-flung extension of German interests first encouraged in Germany a demand for a larger merchant marine, and then for a larger and more effective navy…. Without a strong fleet, Germany would find herself at the mercy of Britain, a "grasping and unscrupulous nation which, in the course of history, had taken opportunity after opportunity to destroy the trade of its commercial rivals."[8]
As Germany tried hard to break Britain's control of world commerce, Britain
was reinforcing her position by making a hard and fast alliance with Austria-Hungary and Italy…. In 1904, Britain made a sweeping deal with France over Morocco and Egypt; a couple of years later she compromised with Russia over Persia, that loose federation of powers was finally replaced by two hostile power groupings; the balance of power as a system had now come to an end…. About the same time the symptoms of the dissolution of the existing forms of world economy—colonial rivalry and competition for exotic markets—became acute.[9]
These "two hostile power groupings" were the old imperial centers of capital, Britain and her allies, and the emerging imperial centers of capital, Germany and her allies. Restrictive trade practices were strangling potentially wealthy countries and "everyone knew it would start but no one knew how or when … until Archduke Ferdinand was shot.[10]
Except for religious conflicts and the petty wars of feudal lords, wars are primarily fought over resources and trade. President Woodrow Wilson recognized this as the cause of WW I: "Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here that does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?"[11]
The real war, of which this sudden outburst of death and destruction is only an incident, began long ago. It has been raging for tens of years, but its battles have been so little advertised that they have hardly been noted. It is a clash of traders…. All these great German fleets of ocean liners and merchantmen have sprung into being since 1870. In steel manufacture, in textile work, in mining and trading, in every branch of modern industrial and commercial life, and also in population, German development has been equally amazing. But geographically all fields of development were closed…. Great Britain took South Africa. And pretended to endless surprise and grief that the Germans did not applaud this closing of another market.[12]
Financial warfare is a powerful weapon in trade wars:
It should be recalled that the practically universal use of sterling in international trade was a principal component of Britain's financial sway, and it was precisely into this strategic sphere that Germany began to penetrate, with the mark evolving as an alternative to the pound. The Deutsche Bank conducted "a stubborn fight for the introduction of acceptance [of the German mark] in overseas trade in place of the hitherto universal sterling bill…. This fight lasted for decades and when the war came, a point had been reached at which the mark acceptance in direct transactions with German firms had partially established itself alongside the pound sterling."…"It seems probable that if war had not come in 1914, London would have had to share with Germany the regulatory power over world trade and economic development which it had exercised so markedly in the nineteenth century."[13]
Serious researchers recognize a dominant currency as having "regulatory power over world trade and development."
Almost 50 years after the American dollar replaced the British pound as the world's trading currency, the Washington Post noted: "Under the Bretton Woods system, the Federal Reserve acted as the world's central bank. This gave America enormous leverage over economic policies of its principal trading partners."[14]
Control of a trading currency is the primary mechanism through which imperial centers of capital maintain unequal currency values and unequal trading values which keep the wealth of the periphery flowing to the imperial center.
The British were afraid of both German economic power and the loss of their central bank operating as the world's central bank.
Because their industries and economic infrastructures were primitive and could not compete with Britain's highly developed technology and economic infrastructure, all major countries had protective tariffs on the eve of WW I.
Historically markets have been both opened and protected by military force. Opening others markets while protecting their own were primary to the national security of virtually every imperial center of capital. Britain thought
placing a ring of new nations around Germany (supported by proper guarantees) would do away with the immediate danger of a German-led economic union…. Once Germany's threat to British economic supremacy had abated the prewar crisis inside British politics would resolve itself.[15]
Germany and World War II
German leaders were still angry over their humiliating defeat in WW I, a war fought over trade, and trade was a large component of this second struggle. "The peace conference of 1919, held in Versailles, marked not the end of the war but rather its continuation by other means."[16]
The injustice of controlled markets under the guise of free trade was never rectified. A resentful Germany prepared, at first secretly, then more and more openly, to develop military might to eventually break those trade barriers and eliminate the humiliation and restrictions of Versailles:
The late 1920s and early 1930s began with a series of worldwide financial crashes that ultimately spiraled downward into the Great Depression. As GNPs fell, the dominant countries each created trading blocks (the Japanese Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, the British Empire, the French Union, Germany plus Eastern Europe, America with its Monroe Doctrine) to minimize imports and preserve jobs. If only one country had kept imports out, limiting imports would have helped it avoid the Great Depression, but with everyone restricting trade, the downward pressures were simply magnified. In the aggregate, fewer imports must equal fewer exports. Eventually, those economic blocks evolved into military blocks, and World War II began.[17]
This is not a defense of Germany's racist motives or conduct in WW II. The supporters and goals of fascism are the antithesis of this treatise. Fascism would severely restrict rights for the masses while this treatise would expand them to full and equal rights.
However, the injustice to Germany in denying her equality in world trade was extreme and injustice breeds extremism. As we have shown, the purpose of World War I was to economically strangle (contain) Germany,[18] this was a component cause of WW II, and in It Took 70 Years to Contain the Soviet Federation we address the need to prevent their rise.
William Appleman Williams, in The Tragedy of American Diplomacy, identified control of markets as the cause of both World Wars I and II. He notes free trade was then called the "Open Door Policy" and
It was conceived and designed to win the victories without the wars…. It does not prove that any nation that resisted (or resists) those objectives was (or is) evil, and therefore to blame for [the] following conflicts or violence.[19]
Both Presidents McKinley and Wilson "unequivocally pointed to Germany as the most dangerous rival of the United States in that economic struggle" and President Franklin Roosevelt and his advisors "explicitly noted as early as 1935 … that Germany, Italy and Japan were defined as dangers to the well-being of the United States."[20]
In fact, on April 10, 1935, four years before WW II and six years before America entered the war, Roosevelt "wrote a letter to [Britain's] Colonel House telling him he was considering American participation in a joint military and naval blockade to seal off Germany's borders."[21]
Germany was bypassing Britain's monopolization of finance capital through barter agreements. That blockade was intended to contain German economic power as well as its Aryan supremacist philosophy. After the war, Secretary of State Cordell Hull reaffirmed trade as being a primary cause of WW II:
Yes, war did come, despite the trade agreements. But it is a fact that war did not break out between the United States and any country with which we had [negotiated] a trade agreement. It is also a fact that, with very few exceptions, the countries with which we signed trade agreements joined together in resisting the Axis. The political line-up followed the economic line-up.[22]
Walter Russell Mead concurs that wars are extensions of trade wars. He warned: "The last time the world deprived two major industrial countries, Germany and Japan, of what each considered its rightful 'place in the sun' the result was World War II."[23]
Japan's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and World War II
Under the guns of Admiral Perry's naval task force in 1854, Japan's markets were forced open. They were forced to sign a trade agreement with a tariff limit of 5% while the average tariff on imports into America of almost 30% was immediately raised even higher.[24]
Learning the mechanics of becoming wealthy through this experience with neo-mercantilist unequal trade, and on the advice of Herbert Spencer, the Japanese studied Western economic theories carefully and in 1872 formed their trade policies.
Japan copied and improved upon Germany's industrial cartels, and followed the European model of establishing colonial empires to create the pre-WW II Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
Both Germany and Japan were following Friedrich List's philosophy of consolidating nations and developing industrial power.
The origin of many of today's Japanese corporations came from the post-Meji Japanese government building the most up-to-date factories and selling them to industrialists for 15%-30% of building costs.[25]
Take specific note of how Germany and Japan's independence, based on military might, gave them the power to create money and thus combine natural resources and labor to produce industrial capital.
They could not have built those basic industries quickly, if at all, while remaining dependent upon the British pound as their trading currency.
A nation without natural resources need only create the money, build the industry, barter production from industry for more resources, and pay for it all with the goods produced. Japan provides the model.
So long as a country has access to technology and resources to produce quality products and access to markets to sell those products, those industries and products back the money created to build those factories. We use these principles extensively outlining how to develop a peaceful, prosperous world.
After WW II, under United States' protection as a buffer against fast-expanding socialism, Japan re-established her centrally planned cartels and Germany re-established theirs at the same time.
The goal was to maintain low import prices for raw materials, high prices for Japanese citizens, and competitive export prices of high-quality consumer goods to penetrate world markets.
Japan's industrialization was a strengthened and fine-tuned copy of Germany's cartel industrialization which was such a threat to England:
America is no longer such a rich country. And Japan is no longer poor. Much of America's wealth has been transferred to the Japanese through the medium of exports and imports. Their exports and our imports.[26]
Japan's pre-WW II conquests cut powerful European traders off from what was once their private domain. This was the common bond between Germany and Japan in WW II and virtually any respectable history of the origin of the war in the Pacific outlines the embargoes against Japan and the trade negotiations carried out right up to the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
The total embargo of oil against Japan just before war broke out in 1941 would have squeezed its economy just as effectively as a Middle East embargo would squeeze Western economies today.
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[1] Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, 1919, quoted by Noam Chomsky, On Power and Ideology (South End Press, 1990), p.. 14.
[2] Steven Schlosstein, Trade War (New York: Congdon & Weed, 1984), p. 9.
[3] Kurt Rudolf Mirow, Harry Maurer, Webs of Power (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1982), p. 16.
[4] D.J. Goodspeed, The German Wars (New York: Bonanza Books, 1985), p., 71.
[5] Petr Kropotkin, Mutual Aid(Boston: Porter Sargent, no date). P. 334.
[6] Frederic F. Clairmont, The Rise and Fall of Economic Liberalism (Goa, India: The Other India Press, 1996), pp. 195, 197; William Appleman Williams, The Contours of American History (New York: W.W. Norton, 1988), his Empire as a Way of Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980), and his The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (New York: W.W. Norton, 1972); Eli F. Heckscher, Mercantilism (New York: Macmillan Company, 1955); Fritz Fisher, Germany's Aims in the First World War (New York: W.W. Norton, 1967), pp. 38-49; Dwight E. Lee, Europe's Crucial Years (Hanover, NH: Clark University Press, 1974).
[7] Williams, Contours of American History, pp. 54, 66, 122-23, 128-29, 144-45, 168-70, 221-22, 272, 319, 338-40, 363, 349, 368-69, 383, 411, 417-23, 429, 434-37, 452, 455-58, 461-64; Williams, Empire as a Way of Life; Williams, Tragedy of American Diplomacy; Heckscher, Mercantilism, especially vol. 2, pp. 70-71.
[8] Nazi Choucri, Robert C. North, Nations in Conflict (San Francisco: W..H. Freeman & Company, 1974), in part quoting other authors, pp 55-59. See also Samuel Williamson Jr. The Politics of Grand Strategy (London: Ashfield Press, 1969).
[9] Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation(Boston: Beacon Press, 1957), p. 19.
[10] Lawrence Malkin, The National Debt (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1988), p. 11; Williams, Contours of American History; Heckscher, Mercantilism; Lloyd C. Gardner, Safe for Democracy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984).
[11] Terry Allen, "In GATT They Trust," Covert Action Information Bulletin, (Spring 1992), p. 63; George Seldes, Never Tire of Protesting (New York: Lyle Stuart, Inc., 1968), p. 45; Gardner, Safe For Democracy, chapters 1-2. See also Williams, Contours of American History, p. 412; Heckscher, Mercantilism, vol. 2.
[12] John Reed, The Education of John Reed (New York: International Publishers, 1955), pp. 74-75.
[13] Harry Magdoff, Paul M. Sweezy, Stagnation and the Financial Explosion (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1987) p. 167. Quotes are from H. Parker Willis and B. H. Beckhart's Foreign Banking Systems and from J. B. Condliffe's The Commerce of Nations.
[14] Bookworld, Washington Post (April 14, 1994), p. 14 (From McGehee's Database).
[15] Gardner, Safe for Democracy, p. 98.
[16] Goodspeed, German Wars, pp. 267-68.
[17] Lester Thurow, Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe, and America (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1992), pp. 55-56.
[18] James and Suzanne Pool, Who Financed Hitler (New York: Dial Press, 1978), p. 41.
[19] Williams, Tragedy of American Diplomacy, pp. 128-29.
[20] Ibid, pp. 73, 128-29, 172-73; see also pp. 72-3, 134-5, 142; Williams, Contours of American History, pp. 412, 451-57, 462-64.
[21] Richard Barnet, The Rockets' Red Glare: War, Politics and the American Presidency (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990), p. 194.
[22] Williams, Tragedy of American Diplomacy, pp. 163-64, emphasis added.
[23] Walter Russell Mead, "American Economic Policy in the Antemillenial Era," World Policy Journal (Summer 1989), p. 422.
[24] James Fallows, "How the World Works," The Atlantic Monthly. December 1993, p. 82.
[25] Clairmont, Rise and Fall of Economic Liberalism, pp. 169, 268.
[26] Schlosstein, Trade War, pp. 9, 13, 55, 99. Fallows, World Works, pp. 73, 82. See also J.M. Roberts, The Triumph of the West (London: British Broadcasting Company, 1985), p. 33.
More pages in the "America Gains Economic Freedom" section
- Accumulation of Capital through Creation of Scarcity
- The Periphery of Empire is a Huge Plantation Providing Food and Resources to the Imperial Center
- Historical Struggle for Dominance in World Trade
- World Wars Decides Who Controls World Trade
- The World Breaking Free Frightened the Security Councils of Every Western Nation
- America Became a Full Fledged Empire
- America Protecting the Imperial Centers, Check A Globe
- Protection for the Imperial Centers, Free Trade for the Periphery of Empire
- The Unwitting Hand Their Wealth to the Cunning
- Orchestration of Death Squads and the Writing of History
- Who are the Powerful? Who are the Violent and Powerful Who Ordered and Oversaw These Atrocities?
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