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This is just conservatives showing their true color, style, and level of maturity.

What kind of idiots? Idiots like Riehl who said such a monstrous, inhuman thing about Reid's wife.

CONSERVATIVES

The latest USA Today/Gallup poll says 48% say the HC bill is a good 1st step but needs tweaking, 8% say it needs no changes and 10% have no opinion. This is a clear majority and majority should rule. The right wing tries to bully and outshout everybody w/different opinions and that is not how a democracy is supposed to work. Cantor is lying about the reason his window was shot and giving vague statements about emails when everyone knows that the teabagging, death threatening republicans are the only ones doing that type of thing. When the republican leaders say that the democrats are not doing the will of the majority, they are simply lying. The republicans are acting like a bunch of savages and are self destructing as they are getting tangled in misinformation, racism and greed. If you listen to the teabaggers and other right wingers, they will tell you they are in the majority and they believe that because that's what the republican leaders are telling them.

classy!?

Riehl's comment is far worse then the actual letters.he denounced at the same time promotes this stuff,he thinks we are all stupid or something this asshole has got to go !

ROTFL! NIce, the condom was a nice touch! LOL

Lou
http://www.anonymous-proxy.us.tc

white undereducated conservatives – there is another name that begins with r – it is possible they suffer from inbreeding, exceptionally low moral character and iq and maybe drink too much.

put another way – they are mostly white rednecks – they couldn't care less about socialism or health care – they can't stand the fact that they lost the election to a black man

these people only maintained their self esteem by thinking they were better than certain minorities. spitting and shouting racial epithets only shows that this has nothing to do with health care.

and the repubs who lost are fanning this to show they have some support – but the support is just loud and crude. which shows why the repubs are losers.

these rednecks are just loud and violent and vile – they are not in the majority – but it is all the repubs have at this point – and they are tweaking it as much as they can

Gene,
You are correct. I know some of these people.They live in a fear based Black & White world.

Where are the calls to make it illegal to desicrate a flag? Free speech be damned. They force us to pledge our allegience to a piece of cloth and their god and tell me I can't use the flag in a way that would express MY dissatisfaction, but it's okay for them??? WTF

That's it rawstory. Just keep on trumpeting the protestation of every single retard from every trailer park in the nation. Give all of them full coverage!
But do NOT mention or evern acknowledge any oppostion from progressives. Just ignore all of the well reasoned and serious concerns that progressives have tried to raise. Do not give them one square inch of space on your blog.

By forcing our base to focus only on the reactions of insane Republicans we can use that hatred to get our sheep to forget about the true right wing extremist nature of this bill. Their hatred of Republicans is our only hope. Keep on lying to your people, keep them confused and hate filled…………..and let's all keep our fingers crossed that our supporters never take a serious look at this bailout of big insurance companies………..er um a health care. Yeah that's it, health care!

Democratic Party Propaganda Division

What a shame. First republikkkans exploit the terrorism of 9/11 (after ALLOWING it to happen) in a shameless attempt to politicize American safety, and now are attempting (and failing) to exploit their own brand of terrorism (that's what it is) to win votes. It won't work.

Shame on them. How disgraceful, and un-American.

“I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.” – John Stuart Mill in a letter to the Conservative MP, Sir John Pakington.

'Nuff said??

All these folks are doing is showing how ignorant they truly are. Through their antics they are driving away any independent voters who might have gone their way. Will they be satisfied when someone is seriously hurt or killed?

Wow, they sent hazardous materials through the US mail? I think the FBI should be knocking on someone's door. Seriously, this is a highly flammable hazmat that should have at least been marked. They ought to throw this prick in jail for so many reasons.

Wait until folks start to see what kicks in right away. The Repubs will never win with their “repeal the bill” message.

Why are some of these acts not considered treason? They think that they are going to take over the government and the US military is going to join them in the fight. A right winger in Tennessee swears that this is what is going to happen. I
repeat: Why is this not considered treason?

Treason is what Bush and Cheney did.
Protecting them is what Obama does every day. That is also treason. You really are a mental midget.

You mean there is more than one kind?

Of course a republicon or teabagger condom was one used during anal sex between two guys. Yeccchh.

Funny how the tea-birther-bagging GOP party thinks this will get them more votes in the fall.

the funny thing is most of these people consider themselves christian. im so confused

I'm always amazed at the far right. They pontificate endlessly about family values and Christianity and tell you why they are all so God fearing and why the liberals are the scourge of the country. but as soon as things don't go their way they are the most violent, gun-toting, home grown terrorists around. I loathe each and every one of them.

hypocrisy is confusing isn't it.
Much like Democrats who claim to support peace and an end to our wars.
Yet here they are, cheering on Obama with his record high war spending, his escalation if Af-Pak, his torture crimes, his stay the course in Iraq and his beating the drums of war on Iran.

Ask any Democrat on the street if they are about peace or war………..they will all say peace. Meanwhile the Obama administration goes forward with every single Bush war and works to start a few more.

Does this sound like 9/11 Gatekeeper Beck & his 9/12 Project?
Both parties are corrupt to the core.
Likewise the media ~

Does this sound like 9/11 Gatekeeper Beck & his 9/12 Project?
Both parties are corrupt to the core.
Likewise the media ~

I can guarantee these cowards are laughing and bragging with their teabagger friends over their actions. As stupid as they are they think by not signing their names no one can trace any of their actions back to them. I hope the capitol police and FBI track down everyone of the mentally challenged rejects and prosecute them. Because you know as brave as they think they are for sending an anonymous threatening piece of mail they would absolutely sh#t their drawers if the FBI or the cops showed up at their door!

DNA can probably be taken from the condom, from both guys on either side of it.

Jode -

You got real problems, girl. In our rough & tumble world, one must stand on its own two feet. Yours appear to be stuck in your oral oriface, resulting in unnecessary exposure of your Bu-tocks.

Mm-mm, pretty!

Well, neither side is OK with this. We see it as a repulsive act and they are in no position to condemn. Ergo, there is no one available to be derisive.

Sir,

It is time for you to take a course in management of statecraft at Tufts' Fletcher School of Diplomacy or Kentucky's Patterson School of International Relations.

Except for bush(43), our nation's statecraft doesn't abandon the ship of state from one administration to the next. These changes need to be gradual and taken in consultation with other governments.

Would it not be more effective to repudiate all military contracts, with immediate force, and turn all that money to road & bridge building?

Well? Call your Congressman or Congresswoman …

Not bloody likely! FBI is probably doing call ahead warrant service – you know, like at your neighborhood Pizzeria … call ahead for immediate service!

repugs are terrorist.

Myth

Truth
1. This is a universal health care bill.

The bill is neither universal health care nor universal health insurance.

Per the CBO:

* Total uninsured in 2019 with no bill: 54 million
* Total uninsured in 2019 with Senate bill: 24 million (44%)

2. Insurance companies hate this bill

This bill is almost identical to the plan written by AHIP, the insurance company trade association, in 2009.

The original Senate Finance Committee bill was authored by a former Wellpoint VP. Since Congress released the first of its health care bills on October 30, 2009, health care stocks have risen 28.35%.
3. The bill will significantly bring down insurance premiums for most Americans.

The bill will not bring down premiums significantly, and certainly not the $2,500/year that the President promised.

Annual premiums in 2016, status quo / with bill:

Small group market, single: $7,800 / $7,800

Small group market, family: $19,300 / $19,200

Large Group market, single: $7,400 / $7,300

Large group market, family: $21,100 / $21,300

Individual market, single: $5,500 / $5,800*

Individual market, family: $13,100 / $15,200*
4. The bill will make health care affordable for middle class Americans.
The bill will impose a financial hardship on middle class Americans who will be forced to buy a product that they can’t afford to use.

A family of four making $66,370 will be forced to pay $5,243 per year for insurance. After basic necessities, this leaves them with $8,307 in discretionary income — out of which they would have to cover clothing, credit card and other debt, child care and education costs, in addition to $5,882 in annual out-of-pocket medical expenses for which families will be responsible.
5. This plan is similar to the Massachusetts plan, which makes health care affordable. Many Massachusetts residents forgo health care because they can’t afford it.

A 2009 study by the state of Massachusetts found that:

* 21% of residents forgo medical treatment because they can’t afford it, including 12% of children
* 18% have health insurance but can’t afford to use it

6. This bill provide health care to 31 million people who are currently uninsured.

This bill will mandate that millions of people who are currently uninsured must purchase insurance from private companies, or the IRS will collect up to 2% of their annual income in penalties. Some will be assisted with government subsidies.
7. You can keep the insurance you have if you like it.
The excise tax will result in employers switching to plans with higher co-pays and fewer covered services.

Older, less healthy employees with employer-based health care will be forced to pay much more in out-of-pocket expenses than they do now.
8. The “excise tax” will encourage employers to reduce the scope of health care benefits, and they will pass the savings on to employees in the form of higher wages.

There is insufficient evidence that employers pass savings from reduced benefits on to employees.

9. This bill employs nearly every cost control idea available to bring down costs.

This bill does not bring down costs and leaves out nearly every key cost control measure, including:

* Public Option ($25-$110 billion)
* Medicare buy-in
* Drug reimportation ($19 billion)
* Medicare drug price negotiation ($300 billion)
* Shorter pathway to generic biologics ($71 billion)

10. The bill will require big companies like WalMart to provide insurance for their employees

The bill was written so that most WalMart employees will qualify for subsidies, and taxpayers will pick up a large portion of the cost of their coverage.
11. The bill “bends the cost curve” on health care.

The bill ignored proven ways to cut health care costs and still leaves 24 million people uninsured, all while slightly raising total annual costs by $234 million in 2019.

“Bends the cost curve” is a misleading and trivial claim, as the US would still spend far more for care than other advanced countries.

In 2009, health care costs were 17.3% of GDP.

Annual cost of health care in 2019, status quo: $4,670.6 billion (20.8% of GDP)

Annual cost of health care in 2019, Senate bill: $4,693.5 billion (20.9% of GDP)
12. The bill will provide immediate access to insurance for Americans who are uninsured because of a pre-existing condition. Access to the “high risk pool” is limited and the pool is underfunded. It will cover few people, and will run out of money in 2011 or 2012

Only those who have been uninsured for more than six months will qualify for the high risk pool. Only 0.7% of those without insurance now will get coverage, and the CMS report estimates it will run out of funding by 2011 or 2012.
13. The bill prohibits dropping people in individual plans from coverage when they get sick. The bill does not empower a regulatory body to keep people from being dropped when they’re sick.

There are already many states that have laws on the books prohibiting people from being dropped when they’re sick, but without an enforcement mechanism, there is little to hold the insurance companies in check.
14. The bill ensures consumers have access to an effective internal and external appeals process to challenge new insurance plan decisions. The “internal appeals process” is in the hands of the insurance companies themselves, and the “external” one is up to each state.
Ensuring that consumers have access to “internal appeals” simply means the insurance companies have to review their own decisions. And it is the responsibility of each state to provide an “external appeals process,” as there is neither funding nor a regulatory mechanism for enforcement at the federal level.
15. This bill will stop insurance companies from hiking rates 30%-40% per year.

This bill does not limit insurance company rate hikes. Private insurers continue to be exempt from anti-trust laws, and are free to raise rates without fear of competition in many areas of the country.
16. When the bill passes, people will begin receiving benefits under this bill immediately

Most provisions in this bill, such as an end to the ban on pre-existing conditions for adults, do not take effect until 2014.

Six months from the date of passage, children could not be excluded from coverage due to pre-existing conditions, though insurance companies could charge more to cover them. Children would also be allowed to stay on their parents’ plans until age 26. There will be an elimination of lifetime coverage limits, a high risk pool for those who have been uninsured for more than 6 months, and community health centers will start receiving money.
17. The bill creates a pathway for single payer.

Bernie Sanders’ provision in the Senate bill does not start until 2017, and does not cover the Department of Labor, so no, it doesn’t create a pathway for single payer.

Obama told Dennis Kucinich that the Ohio Representative’s amendment is similar to Bernie Sanders’ provision in the Senate bill, and creates a pathway to single payer. Since the waiver does not start until 2017, and does not cover the Department of Labor, it is nearly impossible to see how it gets around the ERISA laws that stand in the way of any practical state single payer system.
18 The bill will end medical bankruptcy and provide all Americans with peace of mind.

Most people with medical bankruptcies already have insurance, and out-of-pocket expenses will continue to be a burden on the middle class.

* In 2009, 1.5 million Americans declared bankruptcy
* Of those, 62% were medically related
* Three-quarters of those had health insurance
* The Obama bill leaves 24 million without insurance
* The maximum yearly out-of-pocket limit for a family will be $11,900 (PDF) on top of premiums
* A family with serious medical problems that last for a few years could easily be financially crushed by medical costs

*Cost of premiums goes up somewhat due to subsidies and mandates of better coverage. CBO assumes that cost of individual policies goes down 7-10%, and that people will buy more generous policies.

With all these Christian terrorists running free in America I hope they do some profiling at airports to keep these nuts off of airplane flights.

SEC. 430. ESTABLISHING A READY RESERVE CORPS.

Section 203 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 204) is
amended to read as follows:

SEC. 203. COMMISSIONED CORPS AND READY RESERVE CORPS.

(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—

(1) IN GENERAL.—There shall be in the Service a commissioned
Regular Corps and a Ready Reserve Corps for service in time of
national emergency.

(2) REQUIREMENT.—All commissioned officers shall be citizens of
the United States and shall be appointed without regard to the
civil-service laws and compensated without regard to the
Classification Act of 1923, as amended.

(3) APPOINTMENT.—Commissioned officers of the Ready Reserve
Corps shall be appointed by the President and commissioned
officers of the Regular Corps shall be appointed by the
President with the advice and consent of the Senate.

(4) ACTIVE DUTY.—Commissioned officers of the Ready Reserve
Corps shall at all times be subject to call to active duty by
the Surgeon General, including active duty for the purpose of
training.

(5) WARRANT OFFICERS.—Warrant officers may be appointed to the
Service for the purpose of providing support to the health and
delivery systems maintained by the Service and any warrant
officer appointed to the Service shall be considered for
purposes of this Act and title 37, United States Code, to be a
commissioned officer within the Commissioned Corps of the Service.

(b) ASSIMILATING RESERVE CORP OFFICERS INTO THE REGULAR
CORPS.—Effective on the date of enactment of the Affordable
Health Choices Act, all individuals classified as officers in
the Reserve Corps under this section (as such section existed on
the day before the date of enactment of such Act) and serving on
active duty shall be deemed to be commissioned officers of the
Regular Corps.

(c) PURPOSE AND USE OF READY RESERVE.—

(1) PURPOSE.—The purpose of the Ready Reserve Corps is to
fulfill the need to have additional Commissioned Corps personnel
available on short notice (similar to the uniformed service’s
reserve program) to assist regular Commissioned Corps personnel
to meet both routine public health and emergency response missions.

(2) USES.—The Ready Reserve Corps shall—

(A) participate in routine training to meet the general and
specific needs of the Commissioned Corps;

(B) be available and ready for involuntary calls to active duty
during national emergencies and public health crises, similar to
the uniformed service reserve personnel;

(C) be available for backfilling critical positions left vacant
during deployment of active duty Commissioned Corps members, as
well as for deployment to respond to public health emergencies,
both foreign and domestic; and

(D) be available for service assignment in isolated, hardship,
and medically underserved communities (as defined in section
399SS) to improve access to health services.

(d) FUNDING.—For the purpose of carrying out the duties and
responsibilities of the Commissioned Corps under this section,
there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be
necessary to the Office of the Surgeon General for each of
fiscal years 2010 through 2014. Funds appropriated under this
subsection shall be used for recruitment and training of
Commissioned Corps Officers.

You Can Read the bill here:

http://democrats.senate.gov/reform/patient-prot…
care-act-as-passed.pdf

“All these folks are doing is showing how ignorant they truly are. Through their antics they are driving away any independent voters who might have gone their way.”

LOL. Sure they are…I can just see the vast convoy of Statist independents, happy with even more power grabs by government and being forced to spend $5,000.00 a year on healthcare just as they are being financially strangled, jumping on their donkeys and trotting off to town to parade around the village square in their newly adopted Blue Jersey's with “Thank You Congress” printed on the back.

I guess we'll see come the fall…

“These changes need to be gradual and taken in consultation with other governments.”

Bullshit…Bullshit…Bullshit

Stopping torture does not need to be gradual.
Stopping illegal rendition does not need to be gradual.
Stopping the denial of habeas corpus to our prisoners does not need to be gradual.

Clever word play may amuse you, but the simple fact is that every word you wrote boils down to a dismissive arrogant superior rejection of basic human values. Ending these wars was part of the Obama campaign and now he is escalating every one of them. You support that and laugh about it. I hope you can one day understand the suffering of the victims of American wars, really understand it.

Ignore him. He thinks treason is when someone says something bad about Democrats.

Don't forget … Obama's not running the show, he's along for the ride. The MIC is running the show, and the Bilderberg Group. And as long as Barack remains a corporatist, they'll all let him keep his brain matter.

When you think about all the shit that's gone down in this country since 9/11, it is miraculous that no one's been seriously injured or killed in a violent confrontation regarding politics (for as we all know, anthrax was the government's doing : )

People are gonna start getting crazy bat shit mad … some unemployed former military yahoo who spends all day watching Faux in Houston is gonna go ballistic …

Clearly these actions are false flag operations run by SEIU and ACORN.

Can you prove these crimes are continuing?
I doubt it.
Should members of the previous administration be prosecured for all their sins – legal & moral?
Yes!
Are you a prosecutor?

Please stick to facts as much as possible and leave opinion to mature adults.

Did you know that's exactly what bush, cheney, rumsfeld & wolfowitz decided … consultation with others — bullshit; someone else's opinion — bullshit; Please, leave opinioins and policy to mature adults!

Do you even know what 'the Bilderberg Group' is? Have you ever been to a meeting? Can you even prove it exists outside the algae infested minds of teabaggers? How about the 'Tri-lateral Commission' or the 'Council on International Relations'? Where do they meet? Who are their members? By name, not implication or rumor!
Please stick to facts and leave opinions and policy to mature adults.

Who dishonored the flag?

1. The recipient
2. The sender

Remember this; 6 Minnesota politicians' homes defaced

It's the Libertarian / Liberty minded tea-baggin peeps, remember who else had a convention in MN, at the time of the RNC's?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv3zAsW8pmI

In Minneapolis, Sen. Amy Klobuchar went to fetch the newspaper and found that the side of her home had been defaced, as did Kim Ellison, the wife of U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, also in Minneapolis.

The garages of Rep. Michele Bachmann, of Stillwater; Rep. Jim Ramstad, of Minnetonka, and Rep. John Kline, of Lakeville, also bore similar graffiti
http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/se…

“Everyone knows it's dry h*****, not dry f***** and it doesn't require a condom.”

Riehl continued, “What kind of idiots are behind this stuff, anyway? This would be painful for both parties, literally speaking.”

yeah, as if he would know what it felt like. Bastards, all of them.

These savages are probably smugly happy with their “pranks”. But what they are doing, death threats, vandalism and all the rest is very serious. They may think that they are doing just a little street corner felony that will get them a slap on the wrist if they're caught. They are wrong. What they are doing is a serious federal crime because they are violently interfering with the constitutional duties of their victims. They will be thoroughly investigated and punished. And for the rest of their lives they will be fingered as potential terrorists.

Actually, a British researcher looked at self-described conservatives and their IQ's and compared them to self-described liberals and their IQ's and his research backed up Mill's observation. Other researchers have noted that conservatives tend to be more rigid, paranoid, and frightened, so………………..

A link would suffice.

The capital police need look no further than The Powerline. This sounds just like that creep, mark my words, if it isn't the founder, it's one of his drones.

man, after this shit, i wouldn't lift a fucking finger to save a fucking republican bleeding to death on the fucking street.

Mr, Riehl, the answer to your question: YOUR kind of idiots.

If people start becoming progressives, they might vote for Nader.

Because someone believes or has information that conflicts with your own set of beliefs doesn't mean that you are the only adult in the room with a valid opinion – because opinions are like assholes … everybody has one.

Several power groups you insist do not exist, have been reported on in the past. But newer research on them has been enhanced by insiders who secretly are concerned about the means of implementation of stated objectives. I've never been to a meeting either, Lumber, we don't run in the same circles, but since you asked, Bilderberg attendees in 2009 were:

Dutch Queen Beatrix
Queen Sofia of Spain
Prince Constantijn (Belgian Prince)
Prince Philippe Etienne Ntavinion, Belgium
Étienne, Viscount Davignon, Belgium (former vice-president of the European Commission)
Josef Ackermann (Swiss banker and CEO of Deutsche Bank)
Keith B. Alexander, United States (Lieutenant General, U.S. Army, Director of the National Security Agency)
Roger Altman, United States (investment banker, former U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton)
Georgios A. Arapoglou, Greece (Governor of National Bank of Greece)
Ali Babaca , Turkey (Deputy Prime Minister responsible for economy)
Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Portugal (former Prime Minister of Portugal)
Nicholas Bavarez, France (economist and historian)
Franco Bernabè, Italy (Telecom Italia)
Xavier Bertrand, France (French politician connected to Nicolas Sarkozy)
Carl Bildt, Sweden (former Prime Minister of Sweden)
January Bgiorklount, Norway (?)
Christoph Blocher, Switzerland (industrialist, Vice President of the Swiss People’s Party)
Alexander Bompar, France (?)
Ana Patricia Botin, Spain, (President of Banco Banesto)
Henri de Castries, France (President of AXA, the French global insurance companies group)
Juan Luis Cebrián, Spain (journalist for Grupo PRISA; his father was a senior journalist in the fascist Franco regime)
W. Edmund Clark, Canada (CEO TD Bank Financial Group)
Kenneth Clarke, Great Britain (MP, Shadow Business Secretary)
Luc Cohen, Belgium (?)
George David, United States (Chairman and former CEO of United Technologies Corporation, board member of Citigroup)
Richard Dearlove, Great Britain (former head of the British Secret Intelligence Service)
Mario Draghi, Italy (economist, governor of the Bank of Italy)
Eldrup Anders, Denmark (CEO Dong Energy)
John Elkann, Italy (Italian industrialist, grandson of the late Gianni Agnelli, and heir to the automaker Fiat)
Thomas Enders, Germany (CEO Airbus)
Jose Entrekanales, Spain (?)
Isintro phenomena casket, Spain (?)
Niall Ferguson, United States (Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor at Harvard Business School)
Timothy Geithner, United States (Secretary of the Treasury)
Ntermot convergence, Ireland (AIV Group) (?)
Donald Graham, United States (CEO and chairman of the board of The Washington Post Company)
Victor Chalmperstant, Netherlands (Leiden University)
Ernst Hirsch Ballin, Netherlands (Dutch politician, minister of Justice in the fourth Balkenende cabinet, member of the Christian Democratic Appeal)
Richard Holbrooke, United States (Obama’s special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan)
Jaap De Hoop Scheffer, Netherlands (Dutch politician and the current NATO Secretary General)
James Jones, United States (National Security Advisor to the White House)
Vernon Jordan, United States (lawyer, close adviser to President Bill Clinton)
Robert Keigkan, United States (? – possibly Robert Kagan, neocon historian)
Girki Katainen, Finland (?)
John Kerr (aka Baron Kerr of Kinlochard), Britain (Deputy Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell and an independent member of the House of Lords)
Mustafa Vehbi Koç, Turkey (President of industrial conglomerate Koç Holding)
Roland GT, Germany (?)
Sami Cohen, Turkey (Journalist) (?)
Henry Kissinger, United States
Marie Jose Kravis, United States (Hudson Institute)
Neelie Kroes, Netherlands (European Commissioner for Competition)
Odysseas Kyriakopoulos, Greece (Group S & B) (?)
Manuela Ferreira Leite, Portugal (Portuguese economist and politician)
Bernardino Leon Gross, Spain (Secretary General of the Presidency)
Jessica Matthews, United States (President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
Philippe Maystadt (President of the European Investment Bank)
Frank McKenna, Canada (Deputy Chairman of the Toronto-Dominion Bank)
John Micklethwait, Great Britain (Editor-in-chief of The Economist)
Thierry de Montbrial, France (founded the Department of Economics of the École Polytechnique and heads the Institut français des relations internationales)
Mario Monti, Italy (Italian economist and politician, President of the Bocconi University of Milan)
Miguel Angel Moratinos, Spain (Minister of Foreign Affairs)
Craig Mundie, United States (chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft)
Egil Myklebust, Norway (Chairman of the board of SAS Group, Scandinavian Airlines System)
Mathias Nass, Germany (Editor of the newspaper Die Zeit)
Denis Olivennes, France (director general of Nouvel Observateur)
Frederic Oudea, France (CEO of Société Générale bank)
Cem Özdemir, Germany (co-leader of the Green Party and Member of the European Parliament)
Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Italy (Italian banker, economist, and former Minister of Economy and Finance)
Dimitrios Th.Papalexopoulo, Greece (Managing Director of Titan Cement Company SA)
Richard Perle, United States (American Enterprise Institute)
David Petraeus, United States (Commander, U.S. Central Command)
Manuel Pinho, Portugal (Minister of Economy and Innovation)
J. Robert S. Prichard, Canada (CEO of Torstar Corporation and president emeritus of the University of Toronto)
Romano Prodi, Italy (former Italian Prime Minister and former President of the European Commission)
Heather M. Reisman, Canada (co-founder of Indigo Books & Music Inc.).
Eivint Reitan, Norway (economist, corporate officer and politician for the Centre Party)
Michael Rintzier, Czech Republic (?)
David Rockefeller, United States
Dennis Ross, United States (special adviser for the Persian Gulf and Southwest Asia to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton)
Barnett R. Rubin, United States (Director of Studies and Senior Fellow, Center for International Cooperation)
Alberto Rouith-Gkalarthon, Spain (?)
Susan Sampantzi Ntintzer, Turkey (?) Guler Sabanci, President of Sabanci Holdings (?)
Indira Samarasekera, Canada (President of University of Alberta, Board of Directors Scotiabank)
Rountol Solten, Austria (?)
Jürgen E. Schrempp, Germany (CEO DaimlerChrysler)
Pedro Solbes Mira, Spain (economist, Socialist, Second Vice President and Minister of Economy and Finance)
Sampatzi Saraz, Turkey (banker) (?) possibly Süreyya Serdengeçti (former Governor of the Central Bank of Turkey) http://arsiv.zaman.com.tr/2002/05/29/ekonomi/h6…
Sanata Seketa, Canada (University of Canada) (?)
Lawrence Summers, United States (economist, Director of the White House’s National Economic Council)
Peter Sutherland, Ireland (Chairman, BP and Chairman of Goldman Sachs International)
Martin Taylor, United Kingdom (former chief executive of Barclays Bank, currently Chairman of Syngenta AG)
Peter Thiel, United States (Clarium Capital Management LCC, PayPal co-founder, Board of Directors, Facebook)
Agan Ourgkout, Turkey (?)
Matti Taneli Vanhanen, Finland, (Prime Minister)
Daniel L. Vasella, Switzerland (Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer at Novartis AG)
Jeroen van der Veer, Netherlands (CEO of Royal Dutch Shell)
Guy Verhofstadt, Belgium (former Prime Minister)
Paul Volcker, U.S. (former Federal Reserve director, Chair of Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board)
Jacob Wallenberg, Sweden (chairman of Investor AB and former chairman of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken)
Marcus Wallenberg, Sweden (CEO of Investor AB, former chairman of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken)
Nout Wellink, Netherlands (Chairman of De Nederlandsche Bank, Board of Directors, the Bank of International Settlements)
Hans Wijers, Netherlands (CEO of the multinational corporation AkzoNobel)
Martin Wolf, Great Britain (associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times)
James Wolfensohn, United States (former president of the World Bank)
Paul Wolfowitz, United States (for U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, President of the World Bank, currently AEI scholar)
Fareed Zakaria, United States (journalist, author, and CNN host)
Robert Zoellick, United States (former managing director of Goldman Sachs, President the World Bank)
Dora Bakoyannis, Greece (Minister of Foreign Affairs)
Anna Diamantopoulou, Greece (Member of Parliament for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement)
Yannis Papathanasiou, Greece (Minister of Finance)
George Alogoskoufis, Greece (former Minister)
George A. David, Greece (businessman, president of Coca-Cola)

(first glance summary resources: Stephen Lendman, Op-Ed News, June 1, 2009
The True Story of the Bilderberg Group by Daniel Estulin)

Partners include:

Council on Foreign Relations – what historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. called a “front organization (for) the heart of the American Establishment.” It meets privately and only publishes what it wishes the public to know. Its members are only Americans.

Trilateral Commission – oh do some research on your own … but as a teaser; GHWBush was attending a meeting in DC with relatives of the dreaded and feared beyond reason guy hiding in a cave at the time the NYC asbestos towers were getting pulled …

maybe there is no link … if there was we could see where the info comes from and who compiled it

“Links?… We don’t need no… stinkin’ links!”

To say the Council's members are 'Americans' is inaccurate. The members are U.S. Citizens, who qualify otherwise as researchers, teachers, analysts or politicians: elected or appointed. On the rest of it you did well, except that facts are never subsumed by opinion. I don't expect you to accept my opinion, and anyone who misreps the the meetings of the Bilds, Trilats or the Council is not even dangerous – it's inept. Policy is always opinion; sometimes based on facts – even facts not in evidence and facts misunderstood. But when policy is based on fiction it isn't sound and that's what Teabagging is all about – out stupiding the others on their side.
They compete with each other to be the most irresponcibly stupid rather than their opposition to defeat it.
I digress!
Nowhere did I suggest that these institutions don't exist. Now, after you finish grad school – get a job. And work for universal health care not this trumped up insurance company bailout. Single-payer is the way to go.

As scary as some of this stuff is…don't let them get the better of you…stand tall and know that there are those of us out there that have your back.

OH brother!!!

I can't help but to equate the GOP with this vitriol since they haven't stepped forward and condemned it except in the most anemic terms. I think the Republican party enjoys this stuff. Of course E. Cantor tried to play the injured soul when a stray bullet broke the glass on one of his headquarters (it didn't even penetrate the window blind, and it happened just after midnight when no one was there). But after he made a fool of himself on national TV, the police put the kibosh on his accusations toward the YIKES liberals.

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/03/19/fac…

http://www.factcheck.org/2010/03/a-final-weeken…

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