36 Articles

Saturday, March 29, 2008
Mixing Religion and Government: the making of a dangerous two way corruption
(4 comments) When church and state become too cozy, the danger of incestuous theocracy rears its head. America is not immune to the danger.

Saturday, March 1, 2008
Showdown on Capital Hill-Auditors get bounced out of USDA
USDA bounced a team of GAO auditors out of its offices, banning employees from talking to auditors. Congress is outraged.

Sunday, February 17, 2008
For all of the talk, we know nothing of true 'free markets'-and what we know should be a caution
Now we are facing a historic transfer of wealth, as millions of property owners face foreclosure, eviction and possible homelessness. Many attribute the current mortgage crisis to deregulation, criminal conspiracy and a massive lack of financial literacy among the nation's homebuyers

Friday, January 25, 2008
Language obsession riles writers and fuels social engineering
(3 comments) Today, thousands of languages are no longer part of living memory. Many ethnic groups, most notably several Native American tribes, are seeing the last living native speakers of hundreds of languages slowly die out, taking their rich linguistic heritages to the grave with them.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Another Political Avert and Avoid Mission: the 2008 Election
(2 comments) Campaign 2008: it's not about hairstyle, race or religious persuasion. It's still the economy, stupid.

Monday, January 14, 2008
Negating Negroes, whipping up Whites and the Third Rail: Sexism as a valued added tool in Race and Class Warfare
(1 comments) Manipulation of malleable masses has a long tradition in the United States, particularly when it comes to the manipulation of race and racial politics. Now, women have become a strong part of the mix--the "Third Rail" of politics

Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Hey Candidates: It's still about the economy and foreclosure
Mortgage fraud and criminal conspiracies have spread financial poison throughout the world in the form of risky securitized mortgage investments.

Tuesday, January 1, 2008
2008--The Year They Killed the Golden Goose
(1 comments) The cost of the war, the risky derivative-based housing investments, and the weaker dollar are creating a perfect storm of financial catastrophe here and abroad. We have been playing Russian roulette with the economy and the bullet's now in the chamber. The piper will have his due-who's going to pay him, and in what currency?

Saturday, December 29, 2007
What's Race Got to do with It?
(1 comments) Across the board, from auto loans to mortgages and credit card interest rates, black consumers, along with Hispanic borrowers often are targeted for expensive, high risk loans, lesser medical care and consumer credit fraud.

Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Is the preoccupation with illegal immigration a WMD-weapon of mass distraction?
(3 comments) The nativists are restless and they often do not distinguish between illegal and legal immigration.

Monday, December 17, 2007
Foreclosure, fraud and third world living-In the United States
(1 comments) All over the country, "Home, Sweet Home" isn't sweet any more. Through no fault of their own, thousands of people who live in apartments that are being foreclosed on, are left out in the cold. Although many have paid timely rents, owners, property managers and others have managed to keep from paying the mortgage on their property, sending apartments around the nation into foreclosure.

Sunday, December 16, 2007
Banks aren't buying it: optimism fading on housing-head hunters seeking "foreclosure specialists"
(4 comments) Bankers not buying foreclosure rescue from gov't; pessimistic industry gearing up for massive foreclosure fire sale.

Thursday, December 13, 2007
It's going to be a lawsuit moment: class actions slated to restructure real estate market
(2 comments) Industry critics say lawsuits will restructure the American real estate market. Is it already too late?

Tuesday, December 4, 2007
More single women buying homes-and becoming targets for real estate thieves
There are thousands of desperate single mothers out there, desperate to create a better life for themselves and their families, desperate to stop enriching greedy landlords, desperate to hold a piece of the American Dream for their own. And, in their desperation, they have become lunch meat for the predatory loan industry, even if they have "good credit."

Sunday, December 2, 2007
Mortgage fraud: It's so bad feds just track cases over 50K
Mortgage fraud has long since left the small operator behind. These days, the meat of the fraud is generated by organized rings of specialized thieves, including bankers, real estate brokers, government loan specialists and drug king pins.

Sunday, December 2, 2007
Small Pockets, Big Hearts: Making a Difference a Dollar at a Time
(1 comments) Good health and education are essential to raising poor people out of poverty and giving them the educational skills and the physical health to be productive, self-reliant citizens.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Legacy of the Debt Industrial Complex: Wrecked marriages, stress, suicide
The human toll of the nation's shaky loan industry has yet to be measured, but social workers and family counseling experts say family financial problems are leading to divorce, spousal and child abuse, even suicide.

Saturday, November 24, 2007
Suckered Again: American Public Being Played for Stooges
(3 comments) Many armchair pessimists continue to believe that the public is being used as puppets, in a variety of issues. Briefly put, somebody is yanking our chains and we are dancing like a herd of string puppets

Thursday, November 22, 2007
Kids Charged As Adults: The Death of the Infancy Defense
(3 comments) As the emotional throw a ways and castaways bloat our prisons at a cost of more than $20,000 a year, too many of our resources are being diverted to the Prison-Industrial-Military Complex. What will happen to the children on the edge if the economy tanks and what few resources we have devoted to juvenile mental health and education disappear?

Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Choosers of the Slain: Criminal conflicts of Interest in farm loan industry
Gary Grant is a black farmer who fully understands the challenges black farmers face in their quest for property rights and justice. Grant, founder of the Black Farmers and Agricultural Association, is locked in a legal battle with the federal government over a loan, which his father purportedly took out in 1981.

Friday, November 9, 2007
Guliani's ex-business partner's troubles sticking like a coat of dead fish
(4 comments) Ex-Giuliani partner accused in a 16-count indictment

Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Success! Permission obtained for protest
(2 comments) The persistence of an 80 year old black farmer who is an alleged victim of land theft has paid off. Kentucky State University officials in Frankfort, Kentucky have changed their minds about pushing his protest to an obscure location at the football stadium.

Monday, November 5, 2007
Bucks, Bread and Bullets: Farming Under the Gun
(3 comments) In Pakistan, the situation is increasingly dire for millions of subsistence farmers and peasants. According to one source: Most of the farmer community [in Pakistan], approximately 80%, constitute haris, or agricultural labourers, men and women, who do not own any land.

Sunday, November 4, 2007
Press Release: Black farmer getting runaround on protest permission
An 80 year old Kentucky black farmer is getting the run around in attempts to organize an informational picket coinciding with a farm conference October 15, 2007 on the Kentucky State University campus in Frankfort, Kentucky.

Monday, October 22, 2007
Energy prices manipulated: millions to go without heating assistance
Start looking for a second job to pay your heating bill this winter-you're gonna need one.

Monday, October 15, 2007
Black farmer takes to the streets to protest KKK activity on his farm
The President's reason for deploying hundreds of thousands of American troops to the Middle East is so we don't have to fight terrorists here. However, the rise in nativism and home-grown terrorism in the US remains a centuries' old problem at home.

Friday, August 10, 2007
Desperate Times for Black Land Crimes Victim in Texas
It's getting down to the wire and Sam Mims is getting desperate. The young black Texas rancher says he is the victim of what appears to be a long-standing conspiracy to run him off of his ranch-by any means necessary.

Monday, July 30, 2007
Don't throw those loan records away--You might need them 20 years from now!
(2 comments) A growing underground industry of farm, student and mortgage debt collection targets people who have already paid off their loans.

Friday, July 20, 2007
Where's the Deed? Who's Hijacking billions of dollars in Farmland?
(1 comments) An Arkansas farmer wants to know who is squatting on his land and why his county Recorder is balking at letting him have access to his land records.

Saturday, June 2, 2007
Do Something! Stop Foamin' at the Mouth on the Lunatic Express
(1 comments) Today's activists are ordinary people who have risen above their human limitations--for a while. Unless we help them recharge their batteries, they get worn down, worn out and wiped out.

Friday, May 11, 2007
Corn Country Revolution Battle Lines Drawn Over Bio-Fuels
(1 comments) For all of the hype about "alternative energy," for all of the political hoopla touting gasohol as a way to wean the nation from its dangerous dependence on foreign oil, a group of activists in Southern Indiana is sounding the alarm about to the side effects of the rising corn-based ethanol industry.

Thursday, May 10, 2007
Mind altering substance slimes national airwaves: Viewers still recovering
Sudden cable coverage of possible impeachment move must have been some kind of alien mind control--or a hallucination.

Monday, May 7, 2007
U.S. Attorney Scandal Diverting Attention From Greater Issue
(3 comments) The attention directed at the Bush Administration's US Attorney scandal ignores a larger issue: bias, corruption and incompetence on the bench.

Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Theft by Paper and Crooked Clerks
(1 comments) The litany of land theft victims is slowly reaching a crescendo, as more victims tell their stories. A corps of land thieves and their minions, people who are apparently flaunting Open Records Laws, run some counties in this country. Some are actually intimidating landowners from demanding access to their own land records, recorded deeds, etc.

Thursday, April 12, 2007
The 51st State in the Union: PTSD
Post Traumatic Stress is so prevalent in the US that it should be declared the 51st State in the Union.

Friday, March 30, 2007
Who's Watching the Watchers and When Will Lady Justice Remove Her Blindfold and Kick Butt!
Farm activists across the country say there is a major connection between corruption in the Department of Justice, political cronyism and the scores of allegedly illegal farm auctions in farm country. Black farmers and white farmers have joined forces in many parts of the country, having seen that the divide and conquer strategy of the "black farm settlement" put them at each other's throats while few received relief.