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Michael Collins is a writer in the DC area who researches and comments on the corruptions of the new millennium. His articles focus on the financial manipulations of The Money Party, the abuse of power by government, and features on elections and election fraud. His articles can be found athere. His website is The Money PartyRSS
Monday, January 23, 2012 United Corporations of Gingrich (4 comments)
Gingrich is on the march with phony populism. We know better. He's a made man in The Money Party, that bipartisan coalition representing the financial elite.
Sunday, January 22, 2012 Behold a pale horse ... Mitt's fatal flaw (1 comments)
The phony populism of New Gingrich paid off. He took half of the anti-Wall Street vote in South Carolina. That was his margin of victory. And it was paid for by the financial elite he attacked to bring down Romney, thanks to Citizens United.
Saturday, January 21, 2012 Just Short of Treason in Georgia and Kansas (17 comments)
The First Amendment is ignored when reactionary mayors want to stop the free speech and assemblies of Occupy Wall Street. However, free speech is expanded beyond the limits of the law when religious extremists in Atlanta and Kansas call for the assassination of the president.
Saturday, January 14, 2012 Haley Barbour and the Culture of Death and Violence (5 comments)
Haley Barbour is a symptom of a much larger problem - the pardoning of a political leadership that operates in a culture of death and violence.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 Why are Democrats Attacking Ron Paul? (25 comments)
Ron Paul took 44% of the independents in Iowa. He led among low income voters and had 39% support from those who said they were "moderate to liberal." Is this a wake up call for Democrats? If an alarm goes of are they capable of hearing it?
Thursday, December 15, 2011 Oops! We're Doomed (22 comments)
Time is running out to fix global warming according to newly announced research and emerging dangers on the Russian Arctic shelf. What are our rulers doing? Everything they can to make things worse. Oops, we're doomed!
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 Is Iran Preparing to Strike Back (19 comments)
Is Iran being goaded into an attack in response to covert attacks? If Iran responds and the "usual suspect" get their war on, was that the goal all along?
Monday, November 14, 2011 This Beat Down is for Your Health - the Money Party Must Stop Occupy Movements (12 comments)
The financial fascists are uneasy. They have to shut down the Occupy Wall Street movement. They're starting in Portland with excuses for police attacks like "public health and safety." It won't work but they'll try. Watch for an escalation of attacks on citizens and their lawful right to assemble.
Friday, November 11, 2011 The Pennsylvania Sexual Assault Scandal, the Second Mile Foundation, and Penn State (6 comments)
This is a sexual assault scandal. It's not about football or any coach. It's about a criminal assailant who used his position and powerful organizations to commit sexual battery and deviant acts on at-risk youth. It's not going to be over soon so lets start calling it what it is - a scandal about people getting away with crimes and criminal neglect.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 Abandoned Youth - No More Future (7 comments)
The Money Party and its political minions have created a system that can't produce job growth. There has been none since 2000. The hardest hit sector of the economy are the nation's youth, those 16 to 24 years old. Their unemployment rate is near 20% and there is no future in sight.
Thursday, November 3, 2011 War Crimes In Libya - The Smoking Guns (11 comments)
By waging war instead of protecting civilians, all parties to the NATO effort engaged in an elaborate ongoing war crime against the very civilians that they were supposed to protect.
Sunday, October 23, 2011 Humiliation And Death As A Tool Of National Policy (3 comments)
For decades, the strength and humanity of the nation has been siphoned off to support these overseas adventures concocted by presidents of limited vision and intellect, bereft of any fundamental notion of the value of human life, and unable to think beyond the next election or even the next meeting with a supporter from the defense-national security state industry.
Sunday, October 16, 2011 Quds Force II - The Storyline Repeats Itself (5 comments)
The Obama White House has hauled out an oldie but goodie from the Bush administration - the Iranian faction called the Quds Force as arch villain. The intent is the same too. Blame Iran at a time when the administration needs to "look tough." Looking touch is very expensive in lives and lives and money. We don't have time for anymore nonsense. The stakes are too high.
Monday, October 3, 2011 Why the New Security Zone along the Canadian Border? (19 comments)
Why are we seriously beefing up security all along the Canadian border? Has Canada suddenly become a hotbed of virulent anti-American activity? Are the Mounties and other law enforcement agencies in Canada turning a blind eye to known threats? Are we expected to believe that the nation that turned down a featured role in the coalition of the willing has suddenly become lax on enforcing international law?
Friday, September 16, 2011 Super Congress in Session - More of the Cruel Charade (4 comments)
The cruel charade starts - the Super Congress debt reduction effort. The deck is staked with those who created the problems in the first place by supporting endless war and corporate bailouts. They will ignore the obvious solutions to assure that their true constituents, Wall Street and the big banks, do as well as ever.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 Countering Rhetorical Tricks - "9/11 and the Successful War" (8 comments)
Now, they're saying that the post 9/11 mistakes add up to a "successful war." Why? Because there were no more major attacks. Are they serious? Apparently so.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 Libyan Rebel Army Led by Rehabilitated al Qaeda Linked Terrorists (21 comments)
The government says al Qaeda is just about wiped out. But now we find out that the leadership of the Libyan revolution is filled with al Qaeda sympathizers. Strange, not really. Just say the magic word - oil - and it all makes sense.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 Hacking Our Elections With Big Money And Power (4 comments)
The first for of election fraud is the domination of the process by big money. If you've got enough, you can sit at the table. If you've got enough and the right big money donors, you're in office in no time.
Friday, August 19, 2011 Murdoch in Free Fall - Credibility Gone Billions to Follow (29 comments)
Rupert and James Murdoch conjured up a fictional report that serves as the fig leaf used to cover the naughty secret of News Corporation --- they never investigated phone hacking in general and they never tried to clean house. Their contempt of Parliament ay cost News Corporation 33% of its gross revenue
Friday, August 5, 2011 Who in the World would trust Standard and Poor's? (24 comments)
Why believe Standard and Poors? They helped cause the housing crisis and 2008. In addition S&P was indicted by the state of Connecticut for fraud. Who are these people?
Wednesday, August 3, 2011 Debt Deal Delusions: Debt to Gross Domestic Product Ratio (11 comments)
There are so many debt deal delusions, it is hard to figure out where to start. How about that firmly held belief about the debt-to-gross domestic product ration. Turns out it is a real loser, fiction, all the wrong stuff.
Sunday, July 31, 2011 The War on You (44 comments)
The message is clear. They're coming to take everything - Social Security, Medicare, good jobs, etc. It's a war on you, the people.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 If you declare bankruptcy, will everything be OK in a few days, weeks later? (3 comments)
If you or I declare bankruptcy without good cause, we're going to be indicted. The deliberate, unnecessary default by the United States will be an act of fraud if carried out. It is an utter outrage.
Friday, July 22, 2011 Obama's Budget Betrayal - Questions and Answers (21 comments)
The false debate between the Sleepwalkers (Democrats) and the Crazies (Republicans) is just a smoke screen. It covers the dismantling of the social contract between those who govern and the people. A poor alternative compared to a disaster is preferred but don't be fooled. We were "shopped" in favor of Wall Street.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 Murdoch Hearings - See No Evil, Hear No Evil (7 comments)
Both Murdochs, Brooks, and the two resigned police heads know absolutely nothing about phone hacking. Surprising isn't it that it is easy to prove that they knew about it in some detail years ago.
Monday, July 18, 2011 Running Rupert to Ground -- Vox Populi, Vox Dei (12 comments)
Murdoch is about to leave the United Kingdom with little to show for his time Its all due to the peopleof the UK, the people who said enough! There are few limits to productive action when the people are unified. And it all started on July 4, 2011.
Saturday, July 9, 2011 Dow Jones-Wall Street Journal Head Drawn Into Murdoch UK Phone Jacking Scandal (6 comments)
Murdoch's head of Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal, Les Hinton, is up to his waist in the UK phone jacking scandal. He has some serious explaining to do. The little credibility left for Murdoch is tied to the Journal and DJ. It may evaporate soon when Hinton is called to task for his role in the sordid affair.
Friday, July 8, 2011 Michael Collins: Choreographed Budget Cave In (4 comments)
Team democracy is using the deficit ceiling as an excuse to distract us while they steal from Social Security and Medicare. This is welfare for The Money Party at its best!
Monday, July 4, 2011 The Wisdom of the People - the Populist Rationale (10 comments)
The wisdom of the people is beyond that of those who rule us. It's time to send the pretenders away and make a government in our own interests and values.
Monday, June 13, 2011 Obama Embraces The Money Party (2 comments)
President Obama is on Wall Street looking for payback for all the good work he and Geithner did for the boys. They're acting coy but they'll come through for their best friend in Washington.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 The Edwards Prosecution -- They have better things to do (6 comments)
The Edwards prosecution is a mockery of justice. Like the nonstop assault on Don Siegelman, it suggest other motives. Why don't they go after the Wall Streeters and big banks?
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 Obama and Geithner - Back to the Future on Corporate Tax Breaks and Derivatives (5 comments)
Speculation reigns supreme in your nation's capitol. Who is next in line after the bin Laden operation? The bipartisan coalition directing the war on terror forgot one important fact about the security of the United States of America. It doesn't matter who they kill overseas, the assault on almost all citizens continues unabated at home. No one is doing anything to stop it. Only the financial and political elite remain immune.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 Bankruptcy Hell -- The Sequel to ForeclosureGate (3 comments)
Fifty percent of bankruptcies are approved with missing documentation from creditors - documentation required by law. That's just the start of Bankruptcy Hell for citizens.
Friday, April 15, 2011 Killing Us Quickly - Ryan's Medicare Proposal (79 comments)
We're not worth having around after 65, says Michael Collins. Why else would they want to kill us off? Ryan's Medicare proposal is an authentic death panel.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 ForeclosureGate Deal - The Mandatory Cover Up (3 comments)
he proposed settlement will not move the evicted back to their homes. It will not establish a moratorium on foreclosures, running at over a million per year. There will be no cram downs forcing the banks to absorb part or all of inflated housing prices caused by a real estate bubble that the banks and Federal Reserve Board helped create. In addition, be assured that the settlement will not hold bankruptcy courts accountable.
Friday, April 8, 2011 The Crazies versus the Sleepwalkers - Big Budget Showdown (6 comments)
Instead of a serious, no holds barred effort to revive the economy for citizens, the Republican and Democratic wings of The Money Party are fighting over which bad budget will be adopted. The Republican budget would make Ebenezer Scrooge smile in his grave. They want to privatize Medicare, trash Medicaid, drop supports for the poorest of the poor, and dig the grave for Social Security.
Monday, March 28, 2011 The Hidden Truth About Nuclear Power (9 comments)
If you think Fukushima is bad, wait until you see what the nuclear industry has in store for us.
Sunday, March 20, 2011 Power Corrupts, Nuclear Power Corrupts Absolutely (11 comments)
Is nuclear technology safe? Is it acceptable? Can we trust those in charge to tell us the truth? The answer to each of those questions looks more like no every day.
Monday, March 7, 2011 Libya, Gas Prices, and the Big Payday at Your Expense (10 comments)
Gas prices gone wild! We're about to embark on another period of let the markets take care of it. The Money Party manipulators are again jerking citizens around in the old bottom-up wealth redistribution program. Their "imagineers" are writing the storyline right now.
Monday, March 7, 2011 Libya, Gas Prices, and the Big Payday at Your Expense (2 comments)
Doing nothing, like Congress, and trying to manipulate market forces, as the president says he might, are not the heavy-hitters needed to stop this latest rip off. They both buy into the belief that there is some sort of occult mystery to why prices are going up. Everyone who benefits will raise prices because they can.
Thursday, March 3, 2011 IMF Rates Up Dictatorships Just Before Revolutions
When the IMF blesses a nation's progress for conforming to the economic policies underlying globalism, watch out! There is a popular rebellion in the wings.
Monday, February 21, 2011 The Money Party on the Road to Ruin (5 comments)
The Money Party fails at everything it tries. Look at the past decade and it one monumental epic fail. They couldn't have done a better job of driving the country down if they tried (and maybe they did).
Monday, February 14, 2011 Renewing the Patriot Act (12 comments)
The renewal of the Patriot Act seems assured. Gone are the guardians of the Constitution, Senators Byrd and Feingold. Can the current members of Congress even begin to comprehend what they're doing by renewing this? Have they even read and studied the act?
Friday, February 11, 2011 Forces Behind the Egyptian Revolution (6 comments)
Two critical forces behind the Egyptian Revolution are missing from the front pages, or any pages, of the corporate media.. They are the critical role of Egypt's union movement and the universal desire of all people to live in peace,
Thursday, February 3, 2011 Revolutions Know No Color (13 comments)
Indulging oppressive leaders simply because they are convenient for the ownership of brand democracy is wrong. In addition, oppressive leaders are highly inconvenient to those who choose to ally with them. We're finding that out every day in Egypt.
Monday, January 31, 2011 Egypt and the False Dilemma (4 comments)
Thus a false dilemma is created for the public: support the right of people to determine their own fate or protect your safety and the current standard of living, as it were.
Friday, January 28, 2011 Deadbeats Bush and Gingrich Say "States Better Off Bankrupt" (11 comments)
Jeb Bush and Newt Gingrich say that states should declare bankruptcy. What about the obligations to the people. They don't care, they don't have to. But we do and there are alternatives.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 Healthcare Reform - Abandoning the Self Employed (6 comments)
Before it ever arrived at the president's desk for signature, the health reform act contained a fatal poison pill that would devastate the self-employed.
Monday, January 10, 2011 Death Panels, Palin's Targets, and Political Assassination (58 comments)
The attempted assassination of Representative Gabrielle Giffords raises the bar for political lies and hate to a new level. Previously, incendiary political lies stopped just short violent imagery. Now the door is open for full on violent threats if nothing happens to restrain Palin and the other purveyors of hate.
Saturday, January 1, 2011 Decline and Fall (Maybe) January 1, 2011 (5 comments)
The best thing about 2010 is that it's over. As Mark Fiore described it, 2010 was "the year that wasn't." 20 to 30 million citizens are out of work and the impact of that is rarely mentioned.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010 The Hornet's Nest Kicked Back - A Review of Susan Lindauer's Extreme Prejudice (6 comments)
In early 204, right after Susan Lindauer offered to testify at congressional oversight hearings about the real chance for peace with Iraq instead of invasion, she was arrested on bogus charges, then thrown into a mental institution to discredit her and keep her story under wraps. In her new book, evidence abounds to prove her claims and teach us just how menacing the government can be.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010 It's official! You're on your own (26 comments)
We need our "heroes." Without them, we might realize that we're entirely on our own in the fight against the wholesale theft of the peoples' hard work and wealth.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010 The plot to destroy Social Security (4 comments)
In 2011, we will have a president, who wouldn't even fight for Social Security when he had a majority in Congress, with a House of Representatives with a veto proof majority that won't repeal any tax cut. The citizens have been betrayed by the smoothest con artists around for the benefit of the ultra rich, with the ultimate demise of Social Security assured by a rock solid majority of Republican extremists waiting in the wings
Saturday, December 11, 2010 The Plot to Destroy Social Security (28 comments)
A temporary cut to the Social Security payroll tax will turn into a permanent cut and thus doom the program. Brought to you by that bipartisan coalition known as The Money Party.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 Obama's Grand Betrayal (24 comments)
Obama accomplished what no Republican could do. Social Security and every other program that benefits the people are now in real peril.
Thursday, December 2, 2010 No Room at the Inn - No Mortgage Relief from TARP (4 comments)
What do you get when you cross Tim Geithner and Peter Peterson?
Barack Obama; who would rather help the big banks and "balance" the budget than offer a helping hand for struggling homeowners. (
Saturday, November 20, 2010 Goldman Sachs Investor Buffett Thanks "Uncle Sam" for Bailout (3 comments)
The peoples' oligarch Warren Buffett just wrote a thank you letter to "Uncle Sam" published in the New York Times. It is the height of cynicism.
Thursday, November 18, 2010 Scanners - The Prequel (10 comments)
How did we get to the point of full body scans at airports, the massive personal intrusion that represents, and the tens of millions spent for machines that irradiate us as a consequence of merely flying from here to there?
Sunday, November 14, 2010 Obama to Switch Party (35 comments)
(Washington) President Barack Obama has confided his plans to become a registered Republican some time before the end of the lame-duck session of the 111th Congress. Speaking to his inner circle, he lamented failing to bring the two major parties together. One of his confidants reported Obama saying, "It's really just one party anyway."
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 The Money Party Deficit Reduction Scam and Social Security (5 comments)
Think of the Social Security Trust Fund (trust fund) as the most lucrative retirement fund in the country, the ultimate pot of gold, and you'll immediately understand why it is that for decades, big business has plundered the trust fund. How does this happen?
Tuesday, October 26, 2010 TARP Special IG Asks What about Main Street? (3 comments)
Neil Barofsky, the TARP Special Inspector General, just released a report that makes clear Wall Street got everything and Main Street ended up worse off than before the big bailout started.
Monday, October 25, 2010 California KOs Corporate Takeover - Heathens Hold the Line (2 comments)
Among likely voters in the governor's race, Brown leads Whitman 50% to 38%. In the race for United States Senator, two term Senator Barbara Boxer maintained an 8% lead. The leads by Democrats come from a brand new constituency, those who "never" go to church.
Friday, October 15, 2010 "They don't have the paper" Hard Times for Big Banks (4 comments)
The big banks wrote notes and invented their own law to make it more profitable. Now years later, they find that these notes are worth nothing except the paper they're written on. This is a huge risk to everyone's property values and to the quality of life of almost every citizen. Thanks for nothing Congress, regulators, executive branch.
Friday, October 8, 2010 Why Does Congress Hate America? (7 comments)
It was more important for Congress to fix things for the bankers than to keep constituents in their homes in the midst of a relentless financial crisis, as a cold winter approaches. Congress has inherent contempt for the people. We're probably not even important enough to hate.
Thursday, October 7, 2010 Lawless Nation - Congress (36 comments)
WASHINGTON - Placed in office through legalized bribery, supported by public funding for their every need, protected against the laws that we're expected to obey, Congress represents the epitome of lawlessness; lawmakers who have no regard for the law.
Monday, October 4, 2010 Lawless Nation - the Executive Branch (8 comments)
The principal of unfettered executive power, absent political and judicial restraint, was officially established. Executive power now supersedes established law.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 Things the President Left Out of His Big Speech (7 comments)
I just read the presidents big speech tonight and it struck me. There were some key lines left out of the speech. You may have had the same response. For the sake of clarity and fairness, I've tried to reconstruct the missing lines. I'm sure that the omissions were just an accident. Or maybe that Robert Gibbs may be up to his old tricks again.
Friday, August 27, 2010 Wikileaks CIA Release -" Say What? (1 comments)
It's no accident that this information is kept from US citizens. Sufficiently informed, the vast majority would find these programs offensive and counterproductive. But it's no secret to the rest of the world. The concerns expressed in the Red Cell Memorandum are moot. It's too late. The word is out.
Thursday, August 26, 2010 Wikileaks CIA Release - Say What? (2 comments)
CIA Red Cell starts out by stating, "This report examines the implications of what it would mean for the US to be seen increasingly as an incubator and exporter of terrorism." Don't hold your breath. There's nothing there about the School of the Americas, the shock and awe invasion of Iraq and the carnage that entailed, or 300 dead Panamanians and United States soldiers as a result of the 1981 manhunt for General Noriega.
Monday, August 16, 2010 Gates to Iraqis - We'll stay, just ask us (6 comments)
Gate's tells Iraqis that the United States may stick around after 2011 if they just ask us. Who's in charge anyway?
Friday, August 13, 2010 Gibbs Outed as Republican Mole (1 comments)
Michael Collins
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White House Press Secretary, Robert "the mole" Gibbs, was outed last night for his lead role in throwing the 2010 congressional election to the Republican Party.
Friday, August 6, 2010 Turkish Military Defies Civilian Rule (8 comments)
Right now, the Turkish people are in an epic confrontation with the military "deep state" for control of the nation's future. Three recent false flag operations by the military have been exposed. Trials are pending and underway. The is a winner take all conflict that's being ignored by corporate media here and in Europe.
Thursday, July 15, 2010 Kos, "Raw Data," and the Mainstream Media (3 comments)
Release the raw data from the DailyKos polls and, at the same time, make the mainstream media release the 2004 presidential exit polls (and all the other exit polls) for full public review!
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 Elena Kagan - Willing Accomplice (9 comments)
Elena Kagan's argument against the Siegelman appeal to the supreme court disqualifies her from any judicial nomination. She should be rejected unanimously by the Senate when her name comes up for the Supreme Court of the United States.
Friday, June 18, 2010 Big Oil - First Nigeria then the World (2 comments)
The big oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico is not the first to threaten a people's way of life.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 The Sovereign State of BP - Down for the Count? (1 comments)
BP behaves like a sovereign state but their game is up. They'll be thrown under the bus today to save the most valuable political franchise in the world - the U.S. presidency.
Friday, June 4, 2010 J'accuse - Patrick Fitzgerald! You didn't do your job either!
Fitzgerald failed to do his job on time, failed to charge the right crime, and let the big boys take a hike. These were the very same people who risked the lives of those they had sworn to protect by not doing their job!
Monday, May 24, 2010 The White House, Big Oil, and the "American Power Act" (1 comments)
This analysis looks behind the scenes at how the ban on offshore drilling was lifted and what that had to do with the ultimate prize for big oil, the American Power Act.
Sunday, May 16, 2010 Too Big to Exist - Big Oil (5 comments)
Are big oil companies too big to exist? Do they pose too great a threat to people to be tolerated in their current form? Are we the endangered species?
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 Clegg Throws the People Under the Bus (7 comments)
Clegg abandons the 52% combined progressive alliance of Liberal Democrats and Labour in favor of the servants of the financial elite. Some reformer!
