Mar 31, 2014

Koch Brothers May Be Into Segregation Because Of Their Communist Roots


Why is societal segregation not desired?(besides the obvious racism and equality reasons). Answer: Because it a more unified society will decrease violence and improve income equality and social mobility...

Social Mobility Is Improved With De-Segregation (i.e. it helps bring more opportunities to citizens)
Segragation increases income inequality (which decreases level of democracy) - "The research, carried out by John Ermisch and Emilia Del Bono from the Institute for Social and Economic Research at Essex University, describes the different intakes as the "sorting of children into higher-performing and lower-performing schools". "We need to consider more radical options to create more balanced intakes in secondary schools and pilot innovative approaches to improve attainment for the poorest children," says the Sutton Trust chairman. "A failure to respond to this challenge is to condemn our disadvantaged youngsters - and our economy - to the bottom of the class in education's world order," said Sir Peter. Last year, a major report by former cabinet minister Alan Milburn warned that social mobility had slowed - and that the most sought-after professions were increasingly dominated by young people from affluent families."

Social mobility is important to keep people moving up (for example, The 'american dream' consists of having the opportunity to move up - segregating society makes that more difficult)
"Top professions such as medicine and law are increasingly being closed off to all but the most affluent families, a report into social mobility has said."

Look at what the Koch Brothers are funding...

England is working hard on reducing segregation to improve its society (especially as segregation leads to economic inequality which will increase the frequency of riots etc. over time unless the country becomes more of a police state).

Here are examples of the difficulty and benefits of de-segregating society...

1. "Burnley's race riots in 2001 were partly blamed on the way schools had reinforced segregated communities. Now its schools are being bulldozed and rebuilt in order to improve integration and raise educational standards."

2. An example of the years of hard work it takes to create a more balanced, equal and fair (democratic) society

3. Disparity in education increases the inequality of intellectual capital distribution which leads to, in the long run, income inequality increases (i.e. this reduces the level of democracy in a society)

 Moment Of Zen...




Mar 27, 2014

The Koch Brothers Are Involved In Election Fraud In Wisconsin


Apparently if you're rich... laws and morality don't apply to you...


1. Wisconsin Dems file complaint over ‘Koch brothers-funded scheme to suppress votes’

 The Democratic Party of Wisconsin filed a complaint on Tuesday seeking to stop what it called a Koch brothers-funded scheme to suppress Democratic votes in upcoming Republican recall elections.
Politico reported that Americans for Prosperity sent absentee ballots to Democrats in two Wisconsin state Senate recall districts with instructions that could render the votes ineligible.
Ballots must be received by August 9 to be counted, but the instructions say to return the paperwork two days later, by August 11.

2. More about the Koch Brothers:
The conservative billionaire duo's Americans for Prosperity nonprofit has spent $700,000 on ads supporting the governor's record  as the recall effort against him gains steam.  Last year, they were reportedly behind Walker  in his showdown with unions over the state budget.

AND...

3. Koch Brothers Behind Wisconsin Effort To Kill Public Unions

As the nation focuses on the efforts of Governor Scott Walker to take away collective bargaining rights from public employees in Wisconsin, new information is coming to light that reveals what is truly going on here.
Mother Jones is reporting  that much of the funding behind the Walker for Governor campaign came from none other than uber-conservatives, the infamous Koch Brothers.
What’s more, the plan to kill the unions is right out of the Koch Brothers play book.
Koch-backed groups like Americans for Prosperity, the Cato Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and the Reason Foundation have long
 taken  a very  antagonistic  view  toward public-sector unions. Several of these groups have urged the eradication of these unions. The Kochs also invited Mark Mix ,
president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, an anti-union outfit, to a June 2010 confab in Aspen, Colorado;
If you are reluctant to believe that this is a coordinated attack, consider this-
This afternoon, Marty Beil, executive director of the Wisconsin Public Workers Union, sent a message to the Governor’s office agreeing to the cuts to pension & welfare benefits sought by Walker in his bill.  The governor’s response was “nothing doing.”  He wants the whole kit and kaboodle – the end of the collective bargaining rights of the public unions.
As noted in my earlier post , this is, indeed, the first shot in the final battle to end unionism in America.

Which reminded me of this poster...

Take a break...

Wisconsin's Recall Election & Americans for Prosperity's Absentee Ballot Typos

The Koch brothers-funded Americans for Prosperity PAC sends absentee ballot applications with minor inaccuracies to Wisconsin's Democratic districts.


PLUS...

Bribes to IRAN!

Koch Brothers Flout Law Getting Richer With Secret Iran Sales

 In May 2008, a unit of Koch Industries  Inc., one of the world’s largest privately held companies, sent Ludmila Egorova-Farines, its newly hired compliance officer and ethics manager, to investigate the management of a subsidiary in Arles in southern France. In less than a week, she discovered that the company had paid bribes to win contracts.
“I uncovered the practices within a few days,” Egorova- Farines says. “They were not hidden at all.”

Bribes to the EPA!


Background info on the Koch Brothers:
(News Article) The Billionaire Koch Brothers’ War Against Obama
















Mar 26, 2014

The Koch Brothers Cannot Be Compared To MOST Of The Other Wealthy People Because The Koch Brothers Seek To Harm US Citizens By Gutting Our Constitutional Government


Updated Jan 2015

A simple chain of logic:


Question: What Do the Koch Brothers Want?


1. The Governmental structure we have was given to us by our .

2. My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub. - Grover Norquist

3. Koch Brothers want: "a nation steeped in anarchy where peasants are at the mercy of a few wealthy industrialists."


Investigation 1: 

Breaking Down Society & Social Structures Leads To Anarchy AND Violence



Investigation 2: 


Congress IS Intentionally Passing Bad Laws To Cause Chaos & Death for Profit




Koch Brother Highlights:


EXPOSED: Koch Industries and Cancer Risk




The Young Turks: Koch Brothers Exposed for Cancer Causing Pollution




How the Koch Brothers Cause Cancer By Dumping Toxic Waste Everywhere • Koch Brothers Exposed 2014




Koch Brothers Exposed for Cancer Causing Pollution




The Daily Show: The Koch Brothers become The Daily Show's latest sponsor, prompting Jon to welcome them with some minor adjustments to their advertisement. (4:12):



Colbert Report: The Koch brothers-funded Americans for Prosperity PAC sends absentee ballot applications with minor inaccuracies to Wisconsin's Democratic districts. (2:52):






Many conservatives and conservatives pretending to be democrats or liberals like to compare George Soros and the Koch Brothers. The only way they can do that is by ignoring what the Koch Brothers actually do (those in the know call this a 'media blackout' as it doesn't show up on the 3 main cable news channels). Comparing the Koch Brothers with George Soros OR Warren Buffet is simply comparing two wealthy people possibly making use of the "wealth to buy politicians law" passed by the conservative supreme court.

Now read the following extract (doesn't it seem like the Koch Brothers have begun the process of buying off the Democrats as well becoming almost like Kings? Is this the next step in our evolution? From war profiteers to oligarchs to a representative Kingship?)

Thinkprogress: The Koch brothers and their political allies quietly funneled $250 million to conservative causes last year through a secret tax-exempt organization called Freedom Partners, Politico reportedWednesday. But while the group’s website claims its top priorities including fighting runaway stimulus spending and “corporate welfare,” its donations included a $2 million gift to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, perhaps the strongest backer of such efforts.


GOING DEEPER:

From a well researched blog post:


But forget the chamber of commerce, they could have gone directly to the Koch brothers themselves, who benefit enormously from a huge range of tax breaks, subsidies, free government services and state and federal contracts.
– The dirty secret of Koch Industries is its birth under the centrally-planned Soviet Union. Fred Koch, the founder of the company and father of David and Charles, helped constructfifteen oil refineries for Joseph Stalin before expanding the business in the United States.
– As Yasha Levine has reportedKoch exploits a number of government programs for profit. For instance, Georgia Pacific, a timber company subsidiary of Koch Industries, uses taxpayer money provided by the U.S. Forestry Service to provide their loggers with taxpayer-funded roads and access to virgin growth forests. “Logging companies such as Georgia-Pacific strip lands bare, destroy vast acreages and pay only a small fee to the federal government in proportion to what they take from the public,” according to the Institute for Public Accuracy. Levine alsonotes that Koch’s cattle ranching company, Matador Cattle Company, uses a New Deal program to profit off federal land for free.
– Koch Industries won massive government contracts using their close relationship with the Bush administration. The Bush administration, in a deal even conservatives alleged was a quid pro quo because of Koch’s campaign donations, handed Koch Industries a lucrative contract to supply the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve with 8 million barrels of crude oil. The SPR deal, done initially in 2002, was renewed in 2004 by Bush administration officials. During the occupation of Iraq, Koch wonsignificant contracts to buy Iraqi crude oil.
– Although Koch campaigned vigorously against health reform — running attack ads, sponsoring anti-health reform Tea Parties, and comparing health reform to the Holocaust — Koch Industriesapplied for health reform subsidies made possible by the Obama administration.
– The Koch brothers have claimed that they oppose government intervention in the market, but Koch Industries lobbies aggressively for taxpayer handouts. In Alaska, blogger Andrew Halcro reported that a Koch subsidiary in Fairbanks asked Gov. Sarah Palin’s administration to use taxpayer money to bail out one of their failing refinery.
– SolveClimate recently reported that Koch Industries will reap huge profits from the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline, which runs from Koch-owned tar sands mining centers in Canada to Koch-owned refineries in Texas. To build the pipeline, politicians throughout the Midwest, many of whom have received large Koch campaign donations, have used eminent domain — government seizures of private land. In Kansas, where Koch-funded officials advise Gov. Sam Brownback (R-KS) and the Republican legislature, the Keystone XL Pipeline is likely to receive a property tax exemption of ten years, a special loopholethat will cost Kansas taxpayers about $50 million.

Now forget all the above for just a second and focus on this one thing:

– Koch Industries won massive government contracts using their close relationship with the Bush administration. The Bush administration, in a deal even conservatives alleged was a quid pro quo because of Koch’s campaign donations, handed Koch Industries a lucrative contract to supply the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve with 8 million barrels of crude oil. The SPR deal, done initially in 2002, was renewed in 2004 by Bush administration officials. During the occupation of Iraq, Koch wonsignificant contracts to buy Iraqi crude oil.


This is perfectly in line with Dick Cheney's profiteering from the Iraq War.


What else have the Koch Brothers profited from without our knowing about it?



What should be clear by now is that the Koch Brothers certainly need to be investigated, transparently AND publicly.


NOTES:

Can the rich influence the 'masses' to do thier bidding?

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half

I was looking for an image of an old labor movement poster that had the fat cat asking the mouse “You going let that union guy steal your cookie?” which I’ve always thought was the ultimate stick in the eye to working class people who watch Fox News and believe billionaire “job creators” deserve t...


Well, political manipulation its actually quite common, as Bill Moyers explains...


Moyers & Company 101: On Winner Take All Politics from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.



Also, here's a news report...

‎"The Koch Brothers are worth $50 billion. They’ve bankrolled the Tea Party, the campaign against climate change science, and entire university departments to advance their right-wing agenda. The newest item on their shopping list: their own Center for American Progress."



The following is from Koch Brothers Exposed

Reversing years of societal stabilization...

This film and investigation connects the dots and reveals why the Koch brothers are trying to end public education and how their wealth winds up in the hands of Jim Crow. Watch the video, then call David Koch and tell him to stop funding school resegregation now. His number is 212-319-1100.







EXPOSED: Koch Industries and Cancer Risk






Will you help Senator Sanders expose the Koch Echo Chamber?





Important Links

Bill Koch: Koch Inc. is Organized Crime

The Cato Institute

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Notes:

1. Ann Coulter: ‎"A leading conservative think tank, The Heritage Foundation, helped design Romneycare, and its health care analyst, Bob Moffit, flew to Boston for the bill signing. Romneycare was also supported by Regina Herzlinger, Harvard Business School professor and health policy analyst for the conservative Manhattan Institute. Herzlinger praised Romneycare for making consumers, not business or government, the primary purchasers of health care."

2. From Politifact.com (On Obama's health care bill): Still, there's little doubt that Heritage has been a consistent and eager promoter of the exchange idea, especially during the effort to design a new health care system for Massachusetts. That effort concluded with the Democratic legislature joining with the Republican governor, Romney, to implement a system that includes a health insurance exchange. On numerous occasions, Heritage scholars wrote approvingly of the exchange system in Massachusetts, known as the Connector. In a paper about the Massachusetts plan published on April 11, 2006, Edmund Haislmaier, a Heritage fellow in health care policy, wrote of the "truly significant and transformative health system changes that the legislation would set in motion."

3. A discussion on Fox "News": Does President Obama have an “enemies list”? That’s the provocative allegation put forth by Ted Olson in the Wall Street Journal. Olson is a former member of the Bush Administration as well as representative of the Koch Brothers who just so happen to be the only real people Olson thinks is on this supposed list. So, does the list exist? That’s what The Five asked in the top segment today.

Explanation: Heritage is a Koch created and funded institute (... and read above to see where Obama got his healthcare idea from... i.e. it's a trap for the general elections - 'Keep your friends close and...')
Connections:

1. "Before joining Heritage in June 2007, Loris was an associate at the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, immersing himself for a year in a market-based management program."  ,

2. "Total Koch foundation grants 1997-2009: $3,976,571"

3. Sourcewatch: A list of Koch Funded Orgs - See Bernie Sanders "echo chamber" above.



Related Links:


Koch Brothers On Huffington Post 


The Koch Brothers Are Involved In Election Fraud In Wisconsin




Koch Brothers May Be Into Segregation Because Of Their Communist Roots




Koch Brothers Own A Stake In The Keystone XL Pipeline THAT's Why Fox News is Promoting It! (or in the tar sands oil - there seems to be some confusion on this point)




Case for Indicting The GOP for Treason for The "Paul Ryan Plan" (*As Per The US Constitution)



Liberal Libertarianism.org: The Koch Brothers Seem To Be Buying The Keystone XL Pipeline With Their Supporters Using Lies As Their Primary Marketing Tactic!



Mar 25, 2014

The GOP's War On Women Part 2 (GOP Women Help!)



Introduction: After my post introducing the War On Woman there was a debate (in 2012 - handled incompetently BTW) and here are some overviews that may help to keep conservative women in the media in proper perspective. That women are attacking women is not surprising. But the extent to which women will put other women at risk BY OUTRIGHT LYING IN SERIOUS DEBATES, in the GOP, is actually quite impressive (watch as this one lies and doesn't even flinch when caught, they are just so used to lying by now its just normal for them)....




What's even more impressive is that the GOP leaders support rape & rapists (to an extent that calling them "pro-rape" isn't an understatement!), yet they aren't run out of office! The following is an outline of how the women in the GOP help.


EXPLANATION:


What 'defunding' Planned Parenthood means

Republican insider Ed Gillespie, serving in his new capacity as a Romney campaign advisor and surrogate, appeared on "Fox News Sunday" yesterday, and made some interesting comments about women's issues.
Most of the exchange was fairly predictable -- Gillespie defended a foolish lie, for example -- but note the campaign surrogate's response when host Chris Wallace asked about Mitt Romney's plan to "get rid of" all federal aid to Planned Parenthood.
"Federal funding of abortion is not a noble thing to do. And so, defunding from a federal budget perspective of Planned Parenthood is not the same thing. [...]
"[I]t's not fair to say not having federal funding for Planned Parenthood is defunding Planned Parenthood."
First, as Gillespie probably knows, federal funding of abortion is already prohibited under the law. The Romney surrogate may find political value in misleading Fox viewers, but Planned Parenthood has traditionally enjoyed broad bipartisan support from the left, right, and center -- before the more recent radicalization of the Republican Party -- in part because of the fact tax dollars are not used to terminate unwanted pregnancies.
Second, I'm fascinated by this notion that there's a distinction, from the Romney campaign's perspective, between taking away funding and "defunding." If I'm not mistaken, this is an entirely new level or rhetorical parsing -- Romney doesn't want to defund the women's health care organization; he simply wants to eliminate its funding. This is supposed to make sense.
As Gillespie sees it, Planned Parenthood will have some funding if/when a Romney administration takes away all of its federal assistance, so calling this "defunding" is "not fair."
For the record, Romney wants to eliminate all tax-dollar aid to Planned Parenthood and end funding for Title X altogether. Gillespie's creative spin notwithstanding, such a move would prevent countless American women from receiving necessary health care services.

More Proof #1: The Battle for the War on Women

While multiple states roll back the equal pay and health rights that women have come to enjoy, Fox News relegates the "war on women" to the rank of "phony" political fight.

[Notice the Hypocrisy of the GOP and Fox News in the use of the word "war"... and how they define war!]


More Proof #2: Mitt Needs Moms - Media Turns on Democrats

After Rick Santorum drops out, all the firepower that the right-wing was wasting on each other is retrained on the Democrats.

To deal with Ann Romney all you had to do was say 'Ann Romney is a housewife NOT an economist (or a politician!). The fact that Mitt Romney is depending on her for his campaign shows that he's a wuss and can't do anything without his wife.' Poor guy, his wife even talks before him during speeches!

Keeping in mind, Ann Romney IS a housewife, take a look at a couple of housewives in the GOP...

 Sarah Palin's Grasp Of Basic American History

Comedic Perspective: Sarah Palin's Paul Revere Gaffe

Paul Revere's Famous Ride

Stephen proves that Paul Revere could have ridden a horse while ringing a bell and firing multiple warning shots from a front-loading musket.


Sarah Palin says so many silly things you could fill a library with them...

On last night's edition of Fox News' Hannity, the 2008 vice presidential nominee picked up on Sean Hannity's "bombshell" video evidence (from the previous night) that back in 1990 then-Harvard student Barack Obama associated with "radical" Harvard professor Derrick Bell, founder of the critical race theory.
"Look at his embracing of Derrick Bell, the radical (editor's note: key word here is radical) college racist professor whom he, you showed in a video last night, embraced literally and figuratively asking others to open their hearts and minds to the radical agenda of a racist like Derrick Bell who believed that white men oppress blacks and minorities," she said .  "And Barack Obama, evidently at least at the time believed what Derrick Bell believed."
Then Professor Palin told Hannity the clip also reveals that Obama wants to return to the days "before the Civil War."  
"He (Obama) is bringing us back Sean to, uh uh, you can harken back to days before the Civil War, when unfortunately too many Americans mistakenly believed that not all men were created equal," she said. "Now, it has taken all these years for many Americans to understand that that gravity, that mistake, took place before the Civil War and why the Civil War had to really start changing America.  What Barack Obama seems to want to do is go back to before those days when we were in different classes based on income, based on color of skin."
So our nation's first African-American president wants to return to the days of slavery when African-Americans were treated as property to be bought and sold, and are forced to work? 

Sarah Palin tries to act cunning, with the intelligence of a 4 year old child, but she and her husband have chosen their candidate...
If Sarah Palin were a South Carolinian, she would vote for Newt Gingrich, but what's most important to her is the vetting process for candidates...


Next, Michelle Bachmann

1.
Indecision 2012 - GOP Almighty Michele Bachmann expected a miracle but didn't get it, and Wyatt Cenac heads to Heaven to shed some light on God's mysterious ways...


2.
 On Topic - GOP Presidential Candidates - Michele Bachmann Michele Bachmann talks about John Wayne, chutzpah, the Founding Fathers and double fences...


3.
Uncensored - HPV Mandate & Pro-Vagina Controversy: Kristen Schaal is torn on the HPV issue: on one hand, Rick Perry takes care of Texas vaginas, and on the other, Michele Bachmann argues for a woman's right to choose cancer...




Supplement: 


The Republican "War On Women" has now been extended to Native Americans (persecuting Native Americans is not new, but this strategy is)...
The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which first passed in 1994 and has been reauthorized twice since then, increased federal penalties for domestic violence and provided funding for groups and services that aid victims of domestic abuse. The bill hit the bipartisan sweet spot of being both tough on crime and oriented toward women's rights. Usually it's reauthorized without much fanfare. This time around, however, several Senate Republicans, led by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), are putting up a fight. Despite the fact that the bill has several Republican sponsors, all eight GOP senators on the Judiciary Committee voted against the bill  when the committee considered it last month.
Tribal law: There is an epidemic of domestic violence on Native American reservations. According to the National Congress of American Indians, a Native American rights advocacy group, about 40 percent of Native American women will face domestic violence.But more than half  of Native American women are married to non-Native American men, which means that when cases of abuse arise, the local tribal authorities can do very little because they don't have jurisdiction over non-tribe members.
State and federal prosecutors have the authority to prosecute domestic violence on reservations, but for geographic and logistical reasons, it often goes unaddressed. "A federal prosecutor is not going to be able to expend the kind of energy on misdemeanors that local police officers would spend energy on," says Paulette Moore, vice president for public policy at the National Network to End Domestic Violence.
As Mother Jones reported last year, local authorities' inability or unwillingness to deal with domestic violence cases in Native American communities has contributed to an underground industry of vigilantes for hire who take matters into their own hands. The current version of the Violence Against Women Act would allow tribal authorities to prosecute non-Indians for domestic violence cases on Indian reservations, but Republicans are opposing it because they don't like the idea of Native American law applying to non-tribe members.
"For the first time, the Committee would extend tribal criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians," Grassley said in his floor speech. "I do not believe the Committee has a good understanding of what the consequences would be of doing so." The bill contains language that affirms non-tribe members prosecuted receive the same due process protections they would be entitled to under the US Constitution.
The bill's supporters expressed confusion at Grassley's logic. "Suppose your sister was with you in Washington, DC, and her husband beat her up," Moore says, "but because he was from Virginia, Washington couldn't do anything about it."

The US has a long history of murder and genocide towards the Native Americans, for the GOP to actually inflate a deflating war against Native Americans by attacking the women can only be because they think or know they can get away with it.

‎"In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. The migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion on the forced march. Over 4,000 out of 15,000 of the Cherokees died."


Article: Assimilation, Relocation, Genocide
Article: Genocide in America  
Quote: "The American Indian Genocide Museum has a vision to defeat prejudice and discrimination through education. In the beginning of American History a religious leader who claimed to speak for God gave all the lands west of the Azores and Cape Verde Islands to the King of Spain, if it wasn't already in the possession of some other Catholic King. This decree issued by Pope Alexander Vl, effective from Christmas Day 1492 , is on display at the General Archive of the Indies in Seville, Spain. The bigotry and intolerance this decree created for Native Americans was realized when upon seeing the Tarawa Indians of the Bahamas, Columbus wrote, "They would make fine servants. With fifty men we could subjugate them and make them do whatever we want". The problem with dehumanizing people in order to take their land is, that the next step is to take their lives also. Genocide in the Americas is not an easy subject to address- not for any American."




 Useful perspectives:

The Tennessee Tea Party wants to *literally* rewrite history...

The Word - American History X'd

The Tennessee Tea Party demands that textbooks remove references to the Founding Fathers' slave ownership and violence against Native Americans.


Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey explains that Jack Abramoff went to prison for overcharging Native Americans, but Stephen thinks that makes him a patriot.



“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” ― Isaac Asimov













{Reprint} An Introduction To The GOP's War On Women



Republicans have been doing bad in elections with women. Thus the war on women. This post is a quick overview just to see how the game is played.

Related Book: The Republican War Against Women: An Insider's Report from Behind the Lines
In 1980, Republicans used appeals to sexist and racist bigotry to win the Presidency. The party adopted an electoral strategy that included getting votes by playing on the fear and uncertainty engendered by the civil rights and women's political movements, and continued to use this strategy in the campaigns of 1984, 1988, and 1992. Under the Reagan and Bush administrations, this strategy became a crucial part of the party's governing policies. This book is not a political science treatise nor a description of political campaigns; it is a documented account of a grab for power that, as the years pass, continues to intensify antagonism between the sexes and to sow unnecessary division among the American people. As a longtime Republican activist and a delegate to the 1992 convention, Tanya Melich has observed these actions from within; and documents this takeover and the Party's ongoing practices (such as embracing the Christian right) in a devastating, factual, and often hair-raising report. A combination of history, exposÄ, reasoned polemic, and call to arms, this book has now been enriched by two completely new chapters that assesses the outcome of the 1996 election in terms of the book's thesis and realistically lays out the future: both in terms of what it will be if the right-wing elements of the Republican party continue to set the agenda, and how it can be changed if centrist women (and men) take charge of that agenda. The heart of such change lies with Independents, who now constitute a startling 39 percent of Americans (31 percent identify themselves as Democrats and 30 percent as Republicans). We are not a country of strong party loyalties, and the enormous growth of independents is the signal that change is not only possible but achievable. As a superb political pro, the author offers hardheaded strategies for such change.

As explained in my previous article, hunting cultures will often form into patriarchies. This doesn't mean that women didn't hunt. Just like I showed the Neanderthals were probably just humans, women were probably not just gatherers. Hunting is not that difficult. The pygmies often have women in their hunting groups. Also, to protect children why wouldn't you want strong men around? Obviously you would. If a big cat comes around you would want muscle. Throwing a spear with a group of people at a giraffe or buffalo doesn't require much muscle, so the 'women could not be hunters because they weren't strong enough' isn't a tenable hypothesis.

In short, our culture views ancient cave women like this...

When actually they were like this...

New Women of the Ice Age

Forget about hapless mates being dragged around by macho mammoth killers. The women of Ice Age Europe, it appears, were not mere cavewives but priestly leaders, clever inventors, and mighty hunters.
Recent anthropological research has revealed just how much Soffer’s colleagues overlooked. By observing women in the few remaining hunter-gatherer societies and by combing historical accounts of tribal groups more thoroughly, anthropologists have come to realize how critical the female half of the population has always been to survival. Women and children have set snares, laid spring traps, sighted game and participated in animal drives and surrounds—forms of hunting that endangered neither young mothers nor their offspring. They dug starchy roots and collected other plant carbohydrates essential to survival. They even hunted, on occasion, with the projectile points traditionally deemed men’s weapons. I found references to Inuit women carrying bows and arrows, especially the blunt arrows that were used for hunting birds, says Linda Owen, an archeologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany. 

The revelations triggered a volley of new research. In North America, Soffer and her team have found tantalizing evidence of the hunting gear often favored by women in historical societies. In Europe, archeobotanists are analyzing Upper Paleolithic hearths for evidence of plant remains probably gathered by women and children, while lithics specialists are poring over stone tools to detect new clues to their uses. And the results are gradually reshaping our understanding of Ice Age society. The famous Venus figurines, say archeologists of the new school, were never intended as male pornography: instead they may have played a key part in Upper Paleolithic rituals that centered on women. And such findings, pointing toward a more important role for Paleolithic women than had previously been assumed, are giving many researchers pause.
[Notice that what I referred to as the "fertility goddess" is here called the venus figurines. So, the previous explanations still apply.]

Of course, this isn't the first time women have fought...

Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America 

Women of the Republic views the American Revolution through women's eyes. Previous histories have rarely recognized that the battle for independence was also a woman's war. The "women of the army" toiled in army hospitals, kitchens, and laundries. Civilian women were spies, fund raisers, innkeepers, suppliers of food and clothing. Recruiters, whether patriot or tory, found men more willing to join the army when their wives and daughters could be counted on to keep the farms in operation and to resist enchroachment from squatters. "I have Don as much to Carrey on the warr as maney that Sett Now at the healm of government," wrote one impoverished woman, and she was right.
Women of the Republic is the result of a seven-year search for women's diaries, letters, and legal records. Achieving a remarkable comprehensiveness, it describes women's participation in the war, evaluates changes in their education in the late eighteenth century, describes the novels and histories women read and wrote, and analyzes their status in law and society. The rhetoric of the Revolution, full of insistence on rights and freedom in opposition to dictatorial masters, posed questions about the position of women in marriage as well as in the polity, but few of the implications of this rhetoric were recognized. How much liberty and equality for women? How much pursuit of happiness? How much justice?
When American political theory failed to define a program for the participation of women in the public arena, women themselves had to develop an ideology of female patriotism. They promoted the notion that women could guarantee the continuting health of the republic by nurturing public-spirited sons and husbands. This limited ideology of "Republican Motherhood" is a measure of the political and social conservatism of the Revolution. The subsequent history of women in America is the story of women's efforts to accomplish for themselves what the Revolution did not.

Yet, look at the overview of the GOP's war on women by MoveOn.org...

Top 10 Shocking Attacks from the GOP's War on Women

1) Republicans not only want to reduce women's access to abortion care, they're actually trying to redefine rape. After a major backlash, they promised to stop. But they haven't yet. Shocker.
2) A state legislator in Georgia wants to change the legal term for victims of rape, stalking, and domestic violence to "accuser." But victims of other less gendered crimes, like burglary, would remain "victims."
3) In South Dakota, Republicans proposed a bill that couldmake it legal to murder a doctor who provides abortion care. (Yep, for real.)
4) Republicans want to cut nearly a billion dollars of food and other aid to low-income pregnant women, mothers, babies, and kids. 
5) In Congress, Republicans have a bill that would let hospitals allow a woman to die rather than perform an abortion necessary to save her life. 
6) Maryland Republicans ended all county money for a low-income kids' preschool program. Why? No need, they said.Women should really be home with the kids, not out working. 
7) And at the federal level, Republicans want to cut that same program, Head Start, by $1 billion. That means over 200,000 kids could lose their spots in preschool.
8) Two-thirds of the elderly poor are women, and Republicans are taking aim at them too. A spending bill would cut funding for employment services, meals, and housing for senior citizens.
9) Congress just voted for a Republican amendment to cut all federal funding from Planned Parenthood health centers, one of the most trusted providers of basic health care and family planning in our country.
10) And if that wasn't enough, Republicans are pushing toeliminate all funds for the only federal family planning program. (For humans. But Republican Dan Burton has a bill to provide contraception for wild horses. You can't make this stuff up).

Here are some comedians offering their perspectives on news in the corporate media...
Notice: One side is arguing the health benefits and the other side is saying 'you're going to hell'... (also relevant: Fox News Lies)
Culture War Update - The Dividening of America - Dana Perino vs. Free Birth Control
Notice in the above video that a Republican WOMAN proposes a bill which is not just inappropriate but similar to State sanctioned rape(notice what Jon Stewart says at the end of the video) ... best part is this is perfectly consistent with the Republican war on women (see above extract from MoveOn.org).
Next...
See what Governor Bob McDonnell has to say at 3 minutes 50 seconds into the following video...
A Virginia bill states that any woman seeking an abortion must first lie back in a chair with her feet in stirrups and a 10-inch ultrasound wand in her vagina.

This is my favorite part....
All-MALE Panels to decide the fate of women...
Congress convenes an all-male contraception panel in an effort to find balance between religious liberty and the realities of the secular world.

Another example of all male panels...
Sean Hannity's Holy Sausage Fest: In response to the Obama administration's birth control coverage mandate, Christian conservatives equate themselves to victims of actual religious persecution.

Very Funny: A Parody of the all male decision panels on women's issues...
Jon Stewart's Eye on the Ladies John Oliver, Jason Jones, Aasif Mandvi and Jessica Williams consider whether insurance plans provided by religious institutional employers should include contraception.

Moment of Zen
The Pope (a Catholic) came out in favor of universal healthcare...
[lmao = approx 2 mins above: 'contraception is cock blocking the almighty'.]