until Americans get over our hysteria re:taxes/government spending money on it's own people and the true challenge of disenfranchising of the oligarcy now in charge, I suspect we will not be ready for the future. I live in Canada and as some other posters have communicated, Canadians live very well: their longevity, infant mortality rates, access to medical treatment, and affordable education are much better than for Americans. Things are certainly not perfect and there are problematic issues, but cautious centralism is what has guided progress in Canada. Americans appear to be hysterical regarding the spending of their money, regarding the necessary social and infrastucture costs that are surely not optional.

As long as the far right no tax is too little attitude of selfishness is caught up with some arcane ideal of rugged individualism (me and my gun...kind of thing) the rest of the world will watch in fascination and horror as the country implodes. There are people there who believe Obama's administration is a 'far left' government. This leaves me stunned when I read such tripe. Americans, the ones that can think, need to recognize that the government is still quite a right wing one compared to Europe and Canada.

If you want a functional nation, you have to be willing to pay for it. Why is that so difficult to understand? I suspect it's American exceptionalism which is used as a blunt weapon by the likes of Limbaugh, O'reilly and Rove. American exceptionalism is what has brought America to her knees, and brought everyone else down too. Time to smarten up. All of us.

Wow, I've just always really, really wanted to say that. I don't actually think that would serve justice; I do think they need to be imprisoned for life because they're responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths and suffering beyond imagining. And the irony of not supporting the death penalty for someone - Bush - who found one woman's desparate last plea for mercy so hilarious, well, we live in strange times.

These are War Crimes, so I don't think it's just up to Americans. And, yeah, what is up with that 30%? These people are STILL not tracking?

It's fascinating to read the comments (okay, I've only gotten to page 3 yet) of all these male commenters being shocked ('you can't just make shit up, you know') about matenal pride.

I've known a number of woman who have done exactly this. One of my first sexual adventures was with a guy whose parents had a mercedes which we borrowed for the evening; the next morning his mother pulled a long blonde hair of mine from the back door handle and crowed with hilarity. The whole family laughed and enjoyed the moment. I was seventeen and shocked indeed. They were clearly proud of their boy.

Obviously this is not a universal experience, that doesn't mean it doesn't happen just because it hasn't happened to you.

Is it really necessary for the dialogue to be brought down to 'you evil bitches (who don't want to have sex with me) who are all feminists whose whole agenda is to make my/all men's life a misery by saying men-bad and then trying to take advantage of your victimhood and making me/all men have to listen?

Are people who need to restate, perpetually, how tiresome 'feminism' is to them, really living such small lives that they have to troll for something to get enraged by? Can't you just move on to new experiences, open yourself up to maybe there are other things I can focus my anger on?

Why read something that discusses womans experience and then come to the comment section if it's going to enrage you? Just to emotionally jerk off? Does that feel that good?

You don't like how things have gone. It is tiresome. We get it.

Willb and xypro are correct. In his blog Willb states the corporate media control the public now. These are clear simple statements that encompass the entire problem.

We are being propagandised to death. The corporations are now in charge of America. Maybe it would help if we all just started calling it what it is. In fact, not to do so, at this point is irresponsible. I believe the oligarchy is in charge of Obama, on multiple levels; The financial sector, the highest level of the judicial and civil rights sector, the armament and oil industry sectors.

We now can only count on an outraged citizenry and those within the judicial system who still have honour and on international pressure. What a profound disappointment the puppet Obama is.

Regarding the international monetary crisis, please check out

http://mwcnews.net/content/view/29827/26/. This is truly scary stuff.

Precisely who is Obama's puppet-master and what are his/their plans for us for the long term? By us I mean the world.

To break so abjectly with his own stated values I believe the stakes are very, very high. I am not for a moment saying Obama is too 'nice' for any of this, but I have to wonder, what does he get out of this? Why, when it would probably be easier to do justice than to broaden this harm is he doing this?

He is obviously implicating himself in war crimes as no doubt is the puppet-masters intent. But WHY? What could possibly make that worth doing. I honestly don't believe it's about personal greed. I don't for a moment think Obama's anything but what he is; a bright, creative, passionate individual whose forte is politics. I didn't cry any tears for the win of Obama, but I did for the seeming ending of Bush.

Why do we just know there's going to be so much more to cry for now?

you read nothing else about the financial creaming of Iceland, read this, http://mwcnews.net/content/view/29827/26/

It's a devastating prophecy of what awaits us without a change in course.