Saturday, April 18, 2009 81 year old black farmer arrested on terroristic threat allegations (9 comments)
Harry Young, an 81 year old black farmer who has been protesting what he says is an illegal and unconstitutional foreclosure of his western Kentucky farm, has been arrested on allegations terroristic threatening. The charges reportedly stem from a 5 year old incident where Young allegedly threatened a federal marshal. Young says he has made no terroristic threats.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 Dear Mr. President
Mr. President, since you want to hand money out to Wall Street....
Tuesday, September 2, 2008 To close for comfort: Outsider candidates in the US and India
Biased journalism: the question is whether the American media will subject Senator John McCain to the same Hubble microscope proctology exam that they have been giving Senator Obama for more than a year. As always, only time will tell.
Sunday, December 16, 2007 Foreclosure crisis: Is the foreclosure crisis a house of cards (2 comments)
The nation's economy is being compared to a house of cards, a shaky structure which could be blown right into recession by increasingly negative financial forces. An Ohio case, where a federal judge threw out 14 foreclosure actions by a bank which held the loans in securitzed mortgages based on the bank's inability to prove ownership is raising alarms in the mortgage investment industry.
Saturday, December 15, 2007 What bankers fear
Washington Post notes that the economic system is fueled by faith. What scares the central bankers now is the evaporation of trust from the system. Banks don't believe each other's numbers; since nobody knows the real value of some of the mortgage-backed securities everyone is holding, they assume the worst. They start hoarding cash as a buffer against their own losses and because they're nervous about lending to anyone else
Friday, November 23, 2007 Klanvertising is alive and well in Western Kentucky
Klanvertising is making its way around southwestern Indiana and western Kentucky. The News-Democrat & Leader (Russelville, KY) is reporting that locals have asked for assistance from civil rights organizations.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007 Sweet Land of Liberty-Only If You're Taking the Right Hallucinogens
Even the middle class is becoming fed up with some of the shenanigans that some of our police officers get themselves into these days. While minorities and juveniles have long complained about "police brutality" and "out of control cops", the allegations of police misconduct and abuse of authority often comes from middle class whites these days.
Friday, October 5, 2007 River City BAM Fair
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Friday, June 22, 2007 Press Release: Black Farmer Seeks Return of Stolen Land (3 comments)
My farm and the farms of many middle class farmers have been stolen and sold on the basis of non-existent debts. Many people who are unfamiliar with the situation, can not believe that this can happen in the United States of America. I am here as a living example that it does happen and has happened, not only to myself, but to thousands of other farmers across the nation.We support HR558 the African American Farmers and HR899. Click on the links at the article's end to send a letter of support to your Congressional Representative, Senator or to your local newspaper.
Saturday, June 2, 2007 Red, Black, Brown & Green: Ethnic People and the Move to Economic Self-Sufficiency
If you eat or buy gas, buy this book. News broadcaster, author and national columnist, Monica Davis, has released another sizzling expose on land grabs, the coming food crisis and the family farm emergency. If you eat, buy food or buy gas, you must read Red, Black, Brown & Green: Ethnic People and the Move to Economic Self-Sufficiency, Monica Davis, contributing editor.
Thursday, April 26, 2007 A call for papers (4 comments)
Red, Black, Brown & Green: Ethnic People and the Move to Economic Self- Sufficiency
Friday, August 15, 2008 Lessons from a By-Product Nation: Is this progress?
The lessons of the past are not lost to us, but denied by us. For all of the evidence of dead civilizations bringing about their own destruction, we continue on a mad path of over consumption, species annihilation and habitat destruction.
