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Former computer/communications marketing and product strategist. Currently teaching part time in retirement.

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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Reaction and analysis of Obama's SOTE (State of the Empire) speech:
Obama needs to be challenged in the Democratic primaries because he is a political pawn of the "Vichy Empire" that has captured and Occupies our former country.

Sunday, October 2, 2011
Redefining the term 'Sovereign Wealth"
The global corporate/financial/militarist Empire which controls our former country by hiding behind the facade of its Two-Party "Vichy" sham of democracy has changed the definition of 'sovereign wealth' --- and also shifted sovereignty itself.

Monday, January 10, 2011
Externality Assessment Commission (EAC) vs. Empire
In summary, the EAC would not immediately be a perfect solution to the string of disasters we have been experiencing in wars, environmental, financial and health liabilities, but a forward leaning and pro-active EAC would allow the predictability that US business claims to want.

Sunday, June 20, 2010
"Empire Rules"
How BP is being treated and punished for their crimes is really just a "signal' of how the new rules of a singular global corporate EMPIRE are going to be played on center court.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Multiple faces of Global EMPIRE
Here's my comment to NYT regarding their front page article: "Oil Hits Home, Spreading Arc of Frustration"

Sunday, May 23, 2010
Economic World War has begun in Germany
The only real sustainable and long term solution is to have a democratic Global reserve currency, instead of the US dollar (which is now the Global Empire's perverse currency). Germany seems to know this, but ....

Monday, May 10, 2010
"Fair and balanced" debate between Lions and Lambs
The following is a note of advice that I sent to C-Span's "Washington Journal" regarding the predictable danger of allowing both "predatory lions and lambs" to share the same debating 'show'.

Saturday, May 8, 2010
"Toward a Unifying Theory of Religion and Humanism --- against Empire"
Religion, science, and humanism are inherently "democracy-oriented' and practice "democracy-thinking' in the best sense of free-will, liberty, intellectual integrity and equality --- whereas, Empire practices the opposite (although it obviously likes to disguise that fact).

Thursday, May 6, 2010
"Instruction Manual for De-fusing the Nuclear-Economic "Doomsday Machine'"
Since things are moving very fast and devolving into multiple crises throughout the world, "Priority One' (or as Ford might say, "Job One") for President Obama (hopefully with the support of many "democracy-thinking' Americans) must be to immediately disavow the setting-off of this nuclear-economic "Doomsday Machine" (financial WMD), which is now causing such expanding/explosive/contagious destruction both here at home and throughout our world.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Waking to the American Dream before the nightmare
Non-democratic oligarchy is merely one of the more polite names used to describe Empire --- and all the other forms of government conceived by "empire-thinking' rather than "democracy-thinking'.

Sunday, February 7, 2010
Anti-EMPIRE Clubs/League/Movement championing the Green Party in 2012
(1 comments) The first truly independent third party which refuses to take money from the corporate/financial/militarist Empire, which publicly commits itself to actually confront that Empire, and which secures the support of the growing Anti-Empire movement in America will easily displace the dying inertia of both the existing Republican and Democratic wings of the disgraced corporate Empire's phony parties, and secure a massive lead in political support from all average Americans.

Sunday, January 24, 2010
Frank Rich starts the 2nd American Revolution
Rich's op-ed today in the NYT is the starting point for Obama to take a stand on the Lexington GREEN again.

Friday, January 22, 2010
The correct choice --- now
This Global corporate/financial/militarist Empire is evolving faster than even I thought. A Global People's Movement for democracy is now beyond urgent

Monday, December 21, 2009
Let's use the Health Care bill as an Obama "teaching moment"
Let's use the Health Care bill as an Obama "teaching moment" --- not him "teaching us' but us "teaching him'!

Friday, December 18, 2009
IRAN WAR???
(1 comments) What's going on? Internet news of Iran situation, but no TV news coverage?

Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Obama's confusing speech last night for the Global Empire
The key to understanding the impossibility of Obama's dilemma is that he is trying to defend a Global Empire with American blood and treasure.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Obama's confusing speech last night for the Global Empire
The key to understanding the impossibility of Obama's dilemma is that he is trying to defend a Global Empire with American blood and treasure.

Monday, November 30, 2009
“My West Point Nightmare”, the theatrical version.
[Then as socialist Bernie Sanders and libertarian Ron Paul pull off their West Point cadet uniforms and uniformly yell at Obama, “C'mon man, --- you're lying through your teeth”, the real and patriotic West Point cades shout these commies down.]

Friday, November 27, 2009
“All I am saying, -- is give War a Chance”
"I do not remember the last time we were truly at peace."

Thursday, November 5, 2009
Obama is no SDSer
Before we 'gave him' our votes, we never asked Obama, "Hey, what are you going to do about this corporate/financial Empire that's killing our country and the world?"

Monday, November 2, 2009
Obama's crucial decisions on Afghanistan --- and ‘Beyond Afghanistan' --- on EMPIRE.
Has any president, has any leader, ever had so many critical decisions to make at one time, and so many issues to speak to the American people about?

Friday, October 30, 2009
First Year: Is Obama ‘overwhelmed' --- or just ducking the central issue?
Is Obama really fighting all these battles, or is he just posing and pretending to fight? And what is the common thread that links all these seemingly complex and disparate problems?

Friday, October 23, 2009
Announcing ‘Vichy' Release 2.0
Today's ruling-elite corporate/financial EMPIRE, that controls our country with ‘Vichy' Release 2.0 is much, more guileful and sophisticated in its propaganda than the old Nazi EMPIRE was with the 'Vichy' 1.0 release.

Thursday, October 15, 2009
Alfred P. Sloan's Monetization of ‘Democracy'
The historic propaganda impact of Alfred P. Sloan's idea was the monetization of 'democracy' itself, in order to hide an 'Empire' system morphing and posing as democracy.

Monday, October 12, 2009
Here's how the Afghanistan ‘Graveyard of Empires' might lead from Division Champs to the World Series in ending ‘The
(1 comments) Afghanistan could well extend its lead in being the 'Graveyard of Empires" --- but only if the American people, as a team, get involved in the game and sweep out "The Last 'Corporate Communist' Empire".

Saturday, October 10, 2009
Flaws and Solutions to Capitalism -- Part 1
Examining the fatal flaws of the modern corporate/financial EMPIRE (or "Corporate Communism" per Dylan Ratigan) and proposing solutions for the Second American Revolution against Empire.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Use Dylan Ratigan's phrase "Corporate Communism"
Dylan Ratigan, the progressive host of MSNBC's "Morning Meeting" has begun a campaign to use the term "Corporate Communism" to describe the ruling-elite corporate/financial EMPIRE that has taken over our country.

Monday, April 28, 2008
No pundits understand this three party race.
Understanding the current three candidate race for the figure-head presidency of the 'corporatist Empire' hiding behind this faade of 'Vichy American' government requires a broader understanding of history, revolution, and the nature of these 'crisis times' than the 'Vichy Media' punditry can integrate, because they all think we are still in 'normal times' ---- and, of course, they are also all pawns to the ruling-elite, clas

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