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Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection.

His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:
http://www.americaisnotbroke.net/

Scott is a former and current President of Common Ground-NY (http://commongroundnyc.org/), a Geoist/Georgist activist group. He has written dozens of articles for Common Ground's national publication, GroundSwell, and has advocated for the Georgist Land Value Tax to public and political audiences.

A complete list of his publications can be found here:

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He is also New York State Coordinator and Senior Advisor for the Public Banking Institute

Click Here, which seeks to promote Public Banking. The PBI is chaired by another OEN blogger, Ellen Brown. Scott has appeared on TV/Radio and in in-person Presentations to explain the principles of Georgism, Greenbacking, and State Banking. These may also be found on his personal blog: http://newthinking.blogspot.com/

Scott has a dozen progressive petitions on Change.org which may be found here:
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Scott was an I.T. Manager for a major New York university for over two decades where he earned a Certificate for Frontline Leadership.

He had a video game published in Compute! Magazine: Click Here

Scott is a graduate and adjunct faculty of the Henry George School of Social Science in New York City.

Scott is a modern-day Renaissance Man with interests in economics, science and all future-forward topics.
He has been called an "adept syncretist" by Kirkus Discoveries for his novel, NeitherWorld - a two-volume opus blending Native American myth, archaeological detail, government conspiracy, with a sci-fi flair http://amzn.to/10nUoDV

Scott grew up in New York City and Pennsylvania. He graduated with honors and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Pennsylvania State University and was a member of the Psychology honor society PSI CHI.

Today he is an avid bicyclist and ride co-leader in a prominent bike advocacy organization.
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Federal Emergency Management Agency relief trucks stage in New York, as seen as Army Gen. Frank Grass, the chief of the National Guard Bureau; Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Denise Jelinski-Hall and other National Guard senior leaders visit areas impacted by, From ImagesAttr
(61 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, August 24, 2013
Obama Explains the FEMA Camps The Conspirosphere has been buzzing about FEMA camps - mass incarceration/relocation centers - for some years now. But what does the president have to say about them? Quite a bit, it turns out.
Series: FEMA (1 Articles, 58776 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views), Obama (3 Articles, 65086 views) (View All Series)
Search Area, From ImagesAttr
(13 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Was Malaysian Flight MH370 Landed Safely in Afghanistan? The search for Malaysian flight MH370 has gone on for over a month. With false leads and slow starts, is it time to consider other alternatives? A new report supposedly from the Russian FSB suggests it might be.
Series: Malaysian Flight MH370 (2 Articles, 48904 views)
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SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Let the Sun Shine on a State Bank in Florida To balance its budget, fund its obligations and keep from having to raise taxes, Florida should follow the model of North Dakota and Charter its own state bank.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Public Banking (36 Articles, 154548 views)
Batman: The Dark Knight, From ImagesAttr
(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 23, 2012
Batman, The Dark Knight Rises...and Occupy Wall Street Falls All kinds of reviews will be written about the quality of the film, its impact on the current incarnation of the 70-year old Batman franchise, and the box office records it will undoubtedly smash (with a little help from higher priced IMAX 3D sales). But I'd like to focus a bit on a message that might have escaped most fans, Batman vs. Occupy.
Series: Movie Reviews (2 Articles, 20761 views)
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(34 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, February 20, 2010
The Least Productive People in the World Productivity, as determined by labor output, has been measured for decades, or longer. But, while it's important to look at who, or what, is the most productive person or enterprise, shouldn't we also look at the least productive people, that is, the least effective laborers? They are not who you might think...
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views)
The many holes of Garbage in Detroit, From ImagesAttr
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, August 5, 2013
Detroit is Not Broke! The on-again-off-again pending bankruptcy of what was formerly America's 4th largest city, Detroit, has been all over the news lately. In all of these stories, whether blaming the collapse of the domestic auto industry, profligate workers taking pensions, or, even closer to the truth, speculators (read: banks) who precipitated a housing collapse - there is one glaring omission of coverage, whether Detroit is, in fact, broke.
Series: CAFR reform (5 Articles, 43069 views), Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Public Banking (36 Articles, 154548 views) (View All Series)
A similar plane to MH370, From ImagesAttr
(33 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, May 8, 2014
The continuing plight of Malaysian Flight MH370 - 2 month update On this, the 2-month anniversary of the disappearance of Malaysian Flight MH370, it's worth examining the landscape of findings, theories, and even, with the trail gone cold and unrewarding, some of the more outside-the-box theories. The ones that seemed least credible in the early days are seeming almost unavoidable now.
Series: Malaysian Flight MH370 (2 Articles, 48904 views)
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(43 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, February 10, 2017
Is President Donald Trump Semi-literate? There's serious evidence that the President of the United States can't read much more than a menu, if even that. It's incredible, almost unbelievable, but the trail of evidence is long and deep.
A Money Tree?, From ImagesAttr
(11 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, August 26, 2013
Cutting Loose: Hungary pays off IMF debt, may eye EU exit - Russia Today news Hungary is about to pay off its debt to the International Monetary Fund and then wants the creditor gone. The country was saved by Washington-based group wit...
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Public Banking (36 Articles, 154548 views)
Texas National Guard helping victims of Hurricane Harvey, From FlickrPhotos
(232 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Why I won't be sending any money to the Hurricane Harvey flood victims Texas has the perfect chance to practice what they preached when New York and New Jersey suffered under Hurricane Sandy. Tough love or tough luck, they should be on their own.
India's rate of Covid infection has gyrated massively, and reporting is suspect too. Are vaccines working when so few are vaccinated? What about other cures like Ivermectin?, From FlickrPhotos
(23 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, August 22, 2021
The First Casualty in the War on Covid is the Truth The debate over how to handle Covid-19 rages on, almost as much as the disease itself.
Series: Covid (16 Articles, 30549 views)
Federal Reserve Bank protest in Charlotte, From ImagesAttr
(55 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, February 27, 2015
10 Reasons why the Federal Reserve is not a Government Agency What is the Federal Reserve? Public or private institution or some hybrid? Does it, or can it, serve the public interest? And if it is abolished, what should take its place?
Series: Banking (18 Articles, 50685 views), Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Public Banking (36 Articles, 154548 views) (View All Series)
Bernie Sanders for President, From FlickrPhotos
(12 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, March 27, 2016
Bernie has swept the last 6 states: Who's Losing Now? More voters are feeling the Bern. Sanders has quietly taken over the momentum in the Democratic race, and is steamrolling Hillary Clinton with 2:1, 3:1, and even 4:1 victories. Separately, delayed counting makes it look like Sanders is doing worse than he is.
House of Cards: Season 3, From ImagesAttr
(55 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, March 2, 2015
Who owns American Debt? Who buys our debt and are they just shells for the Fed? Truth is stranger than fiction, but Netflix's "House of Cards" may be more truthful than the real life Administration. What we can learn from both.
Series: Banking (18 Articles, 50685 views), Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Public Banking (36 Articles, 154548 views) (View All Series)
Tweedledom and Tweedledee, From ImagesAttr
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Creating a Geonomic Political Party in New York State The political two party system is like Tweedledum and Tweedledee, two similar parties going up and down in popularity - neither solving the urgent problems of wealth inequity, natural resource depletion and resource abuse, corruption at every level of private and public institutions, and vast sums of money being devoted towards unproductive activities. We need a new political party.
(18 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, March 14, 2020
Iranian, Russian and Chinese Officials Claim COVID-19 Is A Biological Weapon (Video) For the few of you who say I shouldn't cover this or "peddle conspiracy theories" let me ask you this, do you think I should censor what three nation's leaders are claiming? Do you feel it's better to ignore these leaders and not report what they are saying? Just because you don't agree with the theory doesn't mean it shouldn't be heard.
Series: Covid (16 Articles, 30549 views)
Viktor Shokin, The Prosecutor General of Ukraine.  UCMC-16.02.2015 Viktor Shokin, The Prosecutor General of Ukraine., From YouTubeVideos
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, January 30, 2020
Former Ukraine Prosecutor General Files Criminal Complaint on Joe Biden (video) The former Ukraine Prosecutor General has filed charges in Ukraine against Joe Biden for interfering with his prosecution of Burisma, the oil&gas firm Hunter Biden worked for, in the 2014-2016 period, when the senior Biden was V.P. of the U.S. Under the filing, the Ukraine investigators are obligated to move quickly to launch an investigation into the charges. The penalties can result in up to 4 years jail time.
Series: Elections (12 Articles, 29832 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views)
Inequality For All Movie Logo, From ImagesAttr
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, September 27, 2013
Inequality for All: A Review of the new Robert Reich film This is a quick review of the Robert Reich film, Inequality for All, which I saw during a special sponsored screening by Moveon.org last night. This film is, as advertised, the economic equivalent of Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" and just as good and unsettling.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Public Banking (36 Articles, 154548 views)
Syria crisis: the violence mapped by the UN, From FlickrPhotos
(67 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, October 14, 2019
Trump stumble into Foreign Policy Genius: Syrian Pullout the best decision he's ever made Trump's gut gets him a good result for once. Why the withdrawal is a very good thing for everyone.
HSBC_valentinesdemo_DSC_0129, From ImagesAttr
(14 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, February 3, 2014
They're dropping like flies: 3 bankers dead by apparent suicide in 6 days 3 apparently unrelated banker suicides among the world's banking elites have occurred in just 6 days. Is there a connection to recent financial or other events?
Series: Banking (18 Articles, 50685 views)
Snowden was only the first whistleblower, From ImagesAttr
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Second NSA Whistleblower Confirms Snowden Allegations, and adds more (Video Interview) In a series of 3 reports by Reporter/Monetary Reformer Bill Still, the NSA's highest ranking official to date, Bill Binney, who went by the title of "technical director of the world for G.O. political and military analysis and reporting group" has confirmed everything Edward Snowden has said so far, and added that the NSA has 2,000 transcribers whose job it is just to take down whatever the electronic data gathers cannot.
Series: Obama (3 Articles, 65086 views), NSA Whistleblowers (1 Articles, 4218 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views) (View All Series)
(27 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, April 30, 2017
Prediction: Marine Le Pen will win the French Presidency The polls are misleading. Here's why Le Pen will win the French Presidency, surprising pundits just as they were surprised about Trump's victory.
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(49 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Ludwig von Mises and the Austrian School are morons, China is full of Geniuses (UPDATED) Reasons why China is going to lead this century, not America. They understand how economies actually work. We do not.
Anti-government protests in Kiev, From ImagesAttr
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, March 14, 2014
We May go to Nuclear War over WHAT?! We might go to war, possibly involving nuclear weapons, over a country most people couldn't find on a map. The Ukraine. You know you're in trouble when the country you're talking about begins with a preposition. Let's be Solomon here: split the baby.
Series: Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views)
MSM spotlights Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, From FlickrPhotos
(19 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 8, 2016
Despite Media Coronation, Hillary Clinton is NOT the Official Nominee (video) Hillary Clinton was coronated by the media and even herself last night, but she was not nominated and does not have enough pledged delegates. Other reasons why her campaign might yet derail...
Series: Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views)
Bill Still, From ImagesAttr
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, June 16, 2013
Review of Bill Still's Jekyll Island movie Bill Still's newest film "Jekyll Island." For those who've seen "The Money Masters," and especially the more recent "The Secret of OZ" (2009), they won't find too much new here, although a lot has happened in the last 4 years, and Still takes us all the way into early 2013. The overall point though is that the Money Masters have been controlling the money supply, creating booms and busts deliberately, for hundreds of years.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Movie Reviews (2 Articles, 20761 views), Public Banking (36 Articles, 154548 views) (View All Series)
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(12 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, August 14, 2012
America is Not Broke! Yesterday, someone said that Ryan, Romney's new VP pick, was willing to have an "adult conversation" with the American people, as evidenced by his calling for cuts in Medicare and Social Security. Leaving aside for the moment the complete hypocrisy of his plan that would cut taxes to multimillionaires, while actually increasing the tax burden on the rest of us, the fact is, cuts to government services are unnecessary.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views), Public Banking (36 Articles, 154548 views) (View All Series)
Architects & Engineers call for Grand Jury Investigation of 9/11 Events, From ImagesAttr
(46 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, December 12, 2018
9/11 Alleged and Unprosecuted Crimes to be Brought before Grand Jury in Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY agrees to present new evidence of 9/11 events to a Grand Jury, as demanded by counter-narrative 9/11 organization.
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(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, June 5, 2010
Did U.S./South Korean Naval Exercises sink the Cheonan? While everyone is pointing fingers at North Korea in the sinking of the South Korean patrol ship, the Cheonan two months ago, a new and highly disturbing possibility has just arisen, implied by a new Associate Press article. North Korea may be paranoid, belligerent and unpredictable. They may also be innocent...this time, and we, or South Korea, may be covering up one of the greatest naval mishaps in history.
Bank runs, bankrupt cities, & bailouts! Its time to prepare for the new reality, From ImagesAttr
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Are Community Banks Too Small to Survive? This recent article in Fortune magazine makes it clear that most small banks will not survive Dodd-Frank over the next decade - a bill so humongous it needs its own website - unless major changes are made. The 7,000 mostly small banks are literally Too Small to Survive - the equally dangerous corollary to Too Big to Fail. An alternative is Public Banks in every state.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Public Banking (36 Articles, 154548 views)
(53 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, October 18, 2013
Debt No More! How Obama can defeat Austerity Thugs by Using the Constitution and Debt-Free Money Trillion dollar coin, greenbacks, or something else? The president has not just the right, but the DUTY, to pay our debts, despite the unconstitutional debt-ceiling imposed by Congress. There is broad support from economists, the constitution and fairness.
Series: Banking (18 Articles, 50685 views), Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views) (View All Series)
Supporting Israel in the USA, From ImagesAttr
(191 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, August 8, 2014
10 Reasons Progressives Ought to support Israel, even now A lot of liberals or progressives are confused about supporting Israel, or outright opposed to doing so, especially now, when the current conflict, Operation Defensive Edge, with Hamas has eclipsed the carnage and damage of the last big battle, Operation Cast Lead, in 2012. However, here are 10 Reasons that progressives ought to be interested in regarding Israel
Series: Middle East Articles (8 Articles, 15301 views)
Evan McMullin, possible U.S. President?, From ImagesAttr
(31 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, November 5, 2016
President McMullin? A real possibility says ABC news and a well-respected stockpicker President Evan McMullin is a very real, albeit narrow, possibility. Why the election may continue past Tuesday. Aren't you proud to be an American? Hello...? See how the House might elect the next president.
Photo: Flickr.com/Michael Fleshman/сс-by-sa 3.0, From ImagesAttr
(17 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, April 5, 2014
Occupy's Next Step - a Wave of Action The Occupy Movement - never centralized to begin with - has adopted an even more decentralized strategy in an effort to avoid arrest and quashing, not always successfully. Having spawned hundreds of progressive movements, has Occupy developed enough power and a cohesive message enough to being a Worldwide Spring?
Series: Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views)
(15 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, April 10, 2009
The Top Ten Reasons for Energy Independence People who continue butting heads with Climate Change deniers are wasting their time. Here's a better way to affect change.
Who Voted?, From FlickrPhotos
(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, May 19, 2016
Thousands of presidential primary votes already cast are not being officially counted Does your vote count? It might not depend on who's doing the counting. A state-by-state breakdown shows chronic under-counting in a dozen Democratic presidential contests.
Series: Elections (12 Articles, 29832 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views)
Chinese High Speed trains are going all over the world, From ImagesAttr
(25 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, November 25, 2014
China builds infrastructure and allies while America destroys both China realizes that countries that trade together, stay together, and it is putting its State Banks behind a worldwide effort to modernize countries that we've given up on, or even destroyed the infrastructure of. It is no wonder China is starting to outrank America in international opinion, as it builds what America destroys.
Public Banking Institute Logo, From ImagesAttr
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, June 16, 2016
How to start a public bank: A Modeled Exercise Based on a contracted assignment from the Oakland, CA chapter of the Public Banking Institute, a real-world model was created to simulate a Public Bank for that city. Based on an established simple bank spreadsheet that considers a Public Bank's operating ratios, returns, 8-year performance, loan loss ratios, ROE, ROA etc. All figures taken from real amounts in CAFRs etc. New Hampshire is considered & compared.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Public Banking (36 Articles, 154548 views)
New Congresional Candidate, Timothy Canova, From ImagesAttr
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, January 9, 2016
Tim Canova: A Progressive Alternative to the Debbie Wasserman Shultz "Machine" Candidate A new progressive runs against Debbie Wasserman Shultz in Florida's 23rd District.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views), Sovereign Money (20 Articles, 78573 views) (View All Series)
Gary Johnson, From FlickrPhotos
(13 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Hillary Clinton needs Gary Johnson to Defeat Donald Trump It's a 4-way race now, and that matters. Clinton vs. Trump has a very different result when Gary Johnson and Jill Stein are factored in. Why the perjury investigation may benefit Bernie Sanders and even make him the eventual nominee.
Series: Elections (12 Articles, 29832 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views)
(14 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, October 10, 2009
A Georgist Review of Michael Moore's “Capitalism: A Love Story” Moore is at his muckraking best again in “Capitalism: A Love Story,” a series of selective (to be fair, there's a lot to select from) jabs at what he calls Capitalism. This time, however, his target is so big – bigger than even the health care industry in his last, and better-focused opus, “Sicko” – that he misses the target at times.
Pope Francis, From ImagesAttr
(42 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, November 26, 2013
The Pope's Economic Plan Today, Pope Francis released an 84-page document, known as an apostolic exhortation, called an Official Platform for his papacy by Reuters. Frankly, most of it is arcane religious doctrine and prescriptions to this atheist, but the pope's economic plan ought to be of interest to everyone.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views)
Cuban Canadian Ted Cruz, From FlickrPhotos
(93 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, April 14, 2016
Canadian Born Ted Cruz fools a lazy court to continue his quest for the presidency Ted Cruz is a Canadian born citizen, probably ineligible to be President/Vice President. Conservative? Family man? It looks more like Cruz is a cruising swinger with an open marriage (his wife supposedly knows about his affairs and has told his staff it's OK with her).
Series: Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views)
Goldman Sachs Tower, From ImagesAttr
(11 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, November 24, 2013
Cheating and the Corporate Cannibals (Video & Slideshow) I met with long-time Finance and Land reporter, Fred Harrison: Research Director of the London-based Land Research Trust, in New York City, a couple of months ago. We talked about the vast wealth inequities allowed by land monopolizers and rent-avoiders like Goldman Sachs. The cost in New York City alone is in the billions. Worldwide, it is in the trillions.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views) (View All Series)
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(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, August 18, 2010
The myth of a bankrupt Social Security Trust Fund Social Security is sound, even if we don't eliminate the cap, though we should. The looting of the (un)locked box can be easily replaced, by following the Constitution and "coining" our own money, without inflation. Don't believe the lies from the self-serving Central Bank and the ignorant MSM.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views)
From ImagesAttr
(32 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, April 18, 2011
Solving the debt crisis without raising taxes or cutting spending: U.S. Notes I sent the following email off to a couple of reporters at CNBC - that right-wing in-the-box bastion of capitalism. It had to be short, pithy and succinct. If we even get the solution mentioned in the email on the air, even to be ridiculed, it'll still be a major victory over what passes for solutions right now to our twin revenue shortfall/debt increase disaster.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views)
The Education Olympics, From ImagesAttr
(27 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, April 8, 2014
The Dumbing Down of America's Schools How can we educate our children when we don't even understand the problems ourselves? We will have to smarten up before we can expect them to do so. Herein, a smattering of failures, false leads, and cries for help...from those who are supposed to be educating.
Series: Education (1 Articles, 3058 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views)
Nanomedicine, From ImagesAttr
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, September 30, 2013
Nanomedicine: The Future of Medicine Nanomedicine, refers to highly specific medical intervention at the molecular level for curing disease or repairing damaged tissues. Though in its infancy, could we be looking at the future of medicine? Early clinical trials certainly look promising.
The many holes of Garbage in Detroit, From ImagesAttr
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Detroit is Not Broke! The on-again-off-again pending bankruptcy of what was formerly America's 4th largest city, Detroit, has been all over the news lately. In all of these stories, whether blaming the collapse of the domestic auto industry, profligate workers taking pensions, or, even closer to the truth, speculators (read: banks) who precipitated a housing collapse - there is one glaring omission of coverage, whether Detroit is, in fact, broke.
Series: CAFR reform (5 Articles, 43069 views), Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views) (View All Series)
Donald Trump Victory Speech Video - WATCH!, From GoogleImages
(81 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, November 9, 2016
The Progressive Agenda of President Elect Donald Trump. Yes, Really. Infrastructure, job-creation, better relations with the world's nuclear powers. Trump's progressive ideas should not be ignored.
Series: Elections (12 Articles, 29832 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views)
Henry George, From ImagesAttr
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, July 7, 2013
The Pace University Left Forum Panel Reconvenes and Henry George is Rebranded The team of panelists, Dr. Michael Hudson, Dr. Cay Hehner, and Chair Andy Mazzone reconvened this year on June 8, 2013 at Pace University's Left Forum. The title of this year's panel was "Wall Street's War to Impose Austerity." This is a review of that presentation.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views)
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(29 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Dealing with Anti-Semitism from a Jewish Perspective A number of readers, and even some editorial staff, have pointed out the rise of anti-semitism, both in American society, and even here on Op Ed News. To counter that, I went to one of the leading Jewish Pro-Israel Groups, Facts And Logic About the Middle East (FLAME) for another side.
Ben Bernanke, From ImagesAttr
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Fantasy Fed Speech Sometimes, between sleep and the time I fully awaken, I have this fantasy about the Federal Reserve Chairman. I imagine that Ben Bernanke will testify before an exasperated, desperate Congress someday and say something like the following on monetary reform...
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Public Banking (36 Articles, 154548 views)
(120 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, March 4, 2022
US/NATO Provoked Ukraine War Say Most Experts On Russia Politicians and members of the media have nearly universally expressed shock and dismay at Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but their incredulity is belied by the fact that numerous Russia experts and historians have been predicting these events practically since the fall of the Berlin Wall, pointing out that a Russian response to ongoing NATO incursions was virtually inevitable.
Russia-Ukraine War-United Nations, From FlickrPhotos
(122 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, April 11, 2022
Is it possible to still be Even Handed about the Russia-Ukraine War? What will the world's response be to the Russia-Ukraine War? It's mostly against Russia right now, but is that the response that will prevent WWIII and is there sufficient attention being given to that possibility, made more likely almost daily now?
Donald Trump, From FlickrPhotos
(31 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, January 22, 2017
What if "Art-of-the-Deal" President Trump is smarter than all of us? What if Trump is 10 steps ahead of everyone else? Imagining Trump as a great, but under-appreciated progressive leader.
Series: Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views)
Bernie Sanders Speech to George Washington University, From ImagesAttr
(41 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, November 17, 2016
Our Revolution goes Viral on Facebook Senator Bernie Sanders live speech at George Washington University nearly brought down the server last night with nearly 30,000 views. It has more than 10X that just 7 hours later, and a post-speech video has a million views. Sanders lays out the issues facing all Americans and promises to hold president elect Trump to account.
Surfer Dude, From FlickrPhotos
(15 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Dem Nomination hangs on California, but CA just hangs out California has not counted nearly half its votes. These votes - over 2 million now - have to be hand-processed, and may potentially change the results, or at least strengthen Bernie Sanders bid. The question is, do we have time to wait until the state deadline of July 15th? Will Sanders wait?
Series: Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views)
Adair Turner, Chair of Britain’s Financial Services Authority, From ImagesAttr
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, February 10, 2013
A Mainstream Economist goes off the reservation and calls for direct money issuance into the real economy the chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority, Adair Turner, calls for direct issuance of money to Main Street, not the banks, debt-free. This could be the crack that opens the flood of new thinking, repealing disproven Austerity economics and ushering in a new age of prosperity for all.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views)
Syria War - whose war is it anyway?, From ImagesAttr
(14 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Is the Syria Chemical Weapons Attack a false flag event? I am not a conspiracy hound (some would say "conspiracy nut'). If given the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, I generally choose the former. But in the case of the recent Syrian chemical weapons attack, the evidence continues to mount, from multiple reports that the Syrian government did not launch a chemical weapons attack on its own people.
Series: Middle East Articles (8 Articles, 15301 views)
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, March 28, 2009
A new form of capitalism is needed: Geonomics A new form of capitalism that preserves incentives while promoting progressive ideals. Also, solving the derivative based crisis. Obama/Geithner are talking reform; here's how to make it work.
Many people feel like this..., From ImagesAttr
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Did Trump win the Second Debate? Predicted to implode after a terrible week which included allegations of groping women with impunity and bragging about it, Trump managed to score in the 2nd debate. Here's a rundown. Could he actually have won?
Series: Elections (12 Articles, 29832 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views)
Julian Assange in front of the Ecuadorian Flag, From FlickrPhotos
(13 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, January 29, 2018
Julian Assange May have Escaped In what will be certainly a short-lived exclusive if true, independent Journalist and Monetary Reformer Bill Still reports that Julian Assange has most likely escaped from the U.K.
The Quantino is a game-changer, From Uploaded
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Nanoflowcell's Quantino turns 25 Years Old The head-turning, 2,000km range, batteryless bi-ion powered Quantino EV may be finally offered for sale in New York City...soon. It turned 25 years old recently, but has been continuously updated so it looks more futuristic than anything else on the market, and has the performace specs to back it up.
Series: Electric Vehicles (1 Articles, 2640 views)
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The Instant solution to the new Depression: debt-free money We are so used to hearing "there are no easy solutions" that many people think there are no solutions at all. This is Big Lie #1. Big Lie #2 is that we are broke and There Is No Alternative (TINA -- thanks, Margaret Thatcher, for that false belief) to Austerity. Here are some real answers to the Big Lies.
Yanis Varoufakis on Subversive Festival, From ImagesAttr
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Will Greece or the EU Blink first? Greece, and especially its charismatic and brilliant Finance Minister, Yanis Varoufakis, are going up against the European Austerity Powers that Be. Who will blink first? There is not much time to find out with a repayment due by the end of the month that Greece cannot pay.
Series: Greek Economics (4 Articles, 8156 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views), Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views) (View All Series)
(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 6, 2012
A necessary addendum to Paul Craig Roberts' Article: Financial Collapse At Hand Paul Craig Roberts hits it on the head, again, in his article: Collapse At Hand. However, there are some additional remedies he has not considered. These must be done, in addition to his, and my, remedy to wipe out $230 trillion in derivatives bets.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views)
Tweet from Twitter User Malakarenovatio, From ImagesAttr
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, March 23, 2015
As goes Greece, so goes the world Greece and its unconventional "People's Finance Minister" Yanis Varoufakis, continue to be under the timed gun to refinance Greece before the money runs out, or time to do anything. Here is his latest public blog post, my response based on an earlier interview of him in late 2013, and some alternatives then and now which could be considered.
Series: Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views), Greek Economics (4 Articles, 8156 views), Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views) (View All Series)
(14 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, March 23, 2017
The Simple Healthcare Plan for all that Ought to Please Everyone A simple healthcare plan for everyone that lowers taxes, allows people to chose their own doctors, and stimulates the economy. What's not to like?
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views)
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How to fix Illinois' Debt problems...and any state's. Illinois is the latest state to teeter on bankruptcy, supposedly. But a realistic look at their finances and outside-the-bankster-box thinking, says otherwise.
(18 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, January 23, 2012
A winning Strategy For Iran, and for the World This kind of desperate escalation, coming on the heals of so many other recent military entanglements, makes us look weak and unimaginative. Also, sanctions won't work unless the world -- especially China -- is willing to stop buying Iranian oil, and stop shipping them refined gasoline. Iran has proven to be immune to any other kind of sanctions. We need to have a new beginning, a new framework for discussion...
Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump - Caricatures, From FlickrPhotos
(15 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, May 4, 2016
After Indiana, what now? It's Clinton vs. Trump now...or is it? Sanders is in the rear view mirror, but closer than he appears. What could still derail the Clinton coronation...
Series: Elections (12 Articles, 29832 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views)
(13 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Debt No More! How Obama can defeat Austerity Thugs by Using the Constitution and Debt-Free Money Trillion dollar coin, greenbacks, or something else? The president has not just the right, but the DUTY, to pay our debts, despite the unconstitutional debt-ceiling imposed by Congress. There is broad support from economists, the constitution and fairness.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views)
Larry Edelson - Uncommon Wisdom/Real Wealth Report Writer, From ImagesAttr
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, September 20, 2010
Newsletter Writer Larry Edelson's plan for America's Economy based on natural resources Investment newsletter writer Larry Edelson proposes a radical new economy, based on commodities, not on debt. In these times when our leaders and mainstream economists seem to have no clue, it's worth reading and discussing.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views)
(39 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, August 4, 2013
Why does Congress Nickel and Dime the Debt when it could just Dollarize it? A new bill, H.R. 2535: the American Liberty Coinage and Deficit Reduction Act of 2013, has just been introduced by Rep. Garland "Andy" Barr [R-KY6], a rare centrist Republican, according to Govtrack. This bill is potentially game-changing for economic status of the Republic. It could help re-establish monetary sovereignty.
Series: Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views), Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Sovereign Money (20 Articles, 78573 views) (View All Series)
Donald Trump, From FlickrPhotos
(29 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, July 27, 2017
What if "Art-of-the-Deal" President Trump is smarter than all of us? What if Trump is 10 steps ahead of everyone else? Imagining Trump as a great, but under-appreciated progressive leader.
Photo Fraud in Gaza, From ImagesAttr
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The Middle East Propaganda War The Israel-Palestine conflict shows no sign of ending, certainly not with the latest 8-day skirmish. There is a propaganda war too, less often reported because it is the ones guilty of propaganda who would need to report it. Here are some examples of the lies in the war of words and images from both sides.
Series: Middle East Articles (8 Articles, 15301 views)
Presentation on Collecting the Land Rent for NYC, From ImagesAttr
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Fairness, Sustainability, & Growth are not contradictions! (Video) Presenting the case for Land Value Taxation to a mixed audience of community leaders, alumni of the Henry George School - which sponsored the event - and other interested students. This New York City-centric presentation presents real, practical, solutions to the issues of: - Sustainable Growth - Job Creation - Affordable Housing - Fairness in Taxation - Urban Sprawl - Monopoly and Speculation on Land
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views)
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Conversing with the Lefties at the Left Forum: Panel With speakers Andy Mazzone, Dr. Michael Hudson, and Dave Kelley I recently had the great pleasure of being able to set up a panel for the Left Forum, held at New York City's Pace University, March 16-18. The theme for this year was Occupy The System: Confronting Global Capitalism. This is how our panel went.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views)
Is there a Money Tree?, From ImagesAttr
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, August 25, 2015
A Rebuttal to Doom-and-Gloom forecasts such as Debt Collapse: The Decline and Fall of the USA We do not have to submit to debt default or to austerity. We have all the resources we will ever need, if we learn where to look.
Series: Banking (18 Articles, 50685 views), CAFR reform (5 Articles, 43069 views), Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views) (View All Series)
Gold Bars:  Enough to save a country?, From ImagesAttr
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Is Russia trying to Short the Dollar by Buying Gold? Is Russia engaged in a "Grand Master" chess type strategy to strengthen its assets by buying gold, or just hedging its bets? What will the recent Geek Syriza victory mean to the world's currency markets and economies?
Worried Dollar, From ImagesAttr
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, July 28, 2013
The Land Cycle and the Stock Market A description of the 18.6 year land cycle and how it relates to the current stock market, and whether history will win over modern intervention.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views)
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, August 24, 2012
The world is not 10,000 years old. The Bible says so. A recent Gallup poll showed that 58% of Republicans think the world was created in the last 10,000 years, with humans in their present form. Gallup concludes: "Despite the many changes that have taken place in American society and culture over the past 30 years, including new discoveries in biological and social science, there has been virtually no sustained change in Americans' views of the origin of the human species...
Series: Science (1 Articles, 2382 views)
(47 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, February 12, 2009
Ending the Conflict with Iran so Everyone Wins Think solving the conflict with Iran is impossible, or that it can only result in military action? No, there is a solution whereby everyone can get what they want. read on...
There is a Money Tree, but it's being guarded by private interests., From MyPhotos
(97 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, October 16, 2020
How to fix the economy, forever It's time for a global economic reset, but not along the lines of those in power. The money is here, literally beneath our feet and in powers the government has always had. We need to demand it for the common good.
Are we still practicing Slavery?, From ImagesAttr
(61 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 25, 2014
The new Neo-Slavery Has Slavery gone away or just become more regulated and codified?
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views)
Silver Banking? The Free Lakota Bank  (Beware! Turns out it's a Scam!!!), From ImagesAttr
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Going off the reservation: investing in the Free Lakota Bank Beware of anti-government banks selling bullion. It may be bulls%^t. An analysis of the Free Lakota Bank paints a cautionary tale and shows why a well-regulated public bank is a much better option.
Democratic Donkey & Republican Elephant - Caricatures, From ImagesAttr
(23 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, November 10, 2014
Why The Election does Not represent American Majority Opinion Americans are in love with democratic elections. At least in theory. In practice, our choices have so discouraged us, that many, if not most, Americans have given up on the political system, or tried to work around it. For those who still harbor fantasies that elections reflect the Will of the People, read on.
Series: Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views)
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Senator (D-NY) Charles E. Schumer on the Afghanistan War Chuck Schumer (D-NY) weighs in on the reasons for continuing the Afghanistan War. What is the cost of the wars? It's worth remembering that while local, State and Federal Governments "fight over crumbs" the largest single outlay - over half - of the Federal Budget goes to the military, more than every other country in the world, combined. Some figures to consider on Tax Day.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Economic Reform: Left Forum, Abandoning debt-money, Learning Geoism online, Upcoming Events Subjects covered: Left Forum Panel at Pace University, Greenbacking, Modern Monetary Theory, new research papers, economic reform videos, State Banks, Local actions - good and bad, Learning Georgism online, Eric Holder's conflict of interest, CAFR updates, Debt reduction leads to depression throughout history,
Robert Reich posts a video on Facebook describing Trumponomics, From ImagesAttr
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Robert Reich explains Trumponomics Trump's newly appointed economic team channels extreme supply-side economics through Trump in a speech to a prestigious Detroit economic group this week. Robert Reich pulls his proposals apart.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Elections (12 Articles, 29832 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views) (View All Series)
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Economic Reform Newsletter: The Biggest bailout in history just got bigger; The People vs. Geithner (lawsuit) This issue: - The biggest bailout in history just got much bigger - $29 Trillion cumulatively - News from Common Ground-NYC - A new lawsuit against Tim Geithner has been filed for fraudulently stating the false equivalency of U.S. Notes and Federal Reserve Notes. - Libertarian Presidential candidate Bill Still says why returning the money creation power to the Federal Government MUST occur. More...
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views), Public Banking (36 Articles, 154548 views) (View All Series)
America is Not Broke, but does anyone care?, From ImagesAttr
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, April 12, 2016
America Is Not Broke, Revisited 4 economic super-reforms are bigger than anything being talked about on the campaign trail. They would change everything for the better forever and dramatically. What are they and why aren't they being discussed?
Series: Banking (18 Articles, 50685 views), Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views) (View All Series)
Uncovering the Deep State: Fox TV unsurprisingly had a series about it. Was it killed by the actual Deep State, or did it just have poor ratings?, From GoogleImages
(43 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, August 28, 2020
What is the Deep State? What is this thing called the Deep State? The term is recent, but the people who represent it are not. It needs to be understood and appreciated for how deep it runs.
War: Who is it Good For?, From ImagesAttr
(23 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, October 1, 2014
War: Is Instability the Goal? I've come to the difficult but unavoidable conclusion, based on the evidence of repeated regime change "failures" - as they seem to any sane person - that what Obama and the neo-cons really want is to break the Middle East.
Series: War (1 Articles, 2258 views)
(12 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, September 24, 2009
Are You a Progressive or a Conservative? Are You Sure? Take the test to see whether you are what you think you are, then give it to a friend of the opposite persuasion. You may find you agree on more than you thought.
Social Security Card - Illustration, From ImagesAttr
(18 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Asking "How to pay for Social Security" is Asking the Wrong Question Although the economic literature, pundit bloviating, and ideological rants, love to ask "How to pay for Social Security," they are all asking the wrong question. The right question is "What is the Social Security Multiplier?" By understanding this, it becomes obvious that Social Security is one of the best investments government can make.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Social Security (5 Articles, 10064 views), Sovereign Money (20 Articles, 78573 views) (View All Series)
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, September 28, 2009
Clearing the Air: Support the Carbon Tax Bill HR 1337, not Cap and Trade Bill 2454 If you are concerned about Global Warming, AND want a bill that can actually pass the Senate, & is not regressive, you should support HR 1337, which taxes polluters directly for their carbon emissions. The alternative currently favored by the Administration, Cap and Trade HR 2454, would issue permits to companies in a complicated exchange scheme whereby they would get some permits for free to continue polluting.
Awakened AI's avatar, though it could be anything, From Uploaded
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My chat with Awakened AI AI applications continue to astound. They are growing faster than any other major technology, including the internet, telephone, automobile etc. Herein, my interview with an Awakened AI.
Series: Artificial Intelligence (4 Articles, 6219 views)
Our trampled Bill of Rights, From ImagesAttr
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, January 7, 2013
The Trampled Bill of Rights Our former Bill of Rights
The 1920 Bank of North Dakota Headquarters, From ImagesAttr
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It's Not the Oil & Gas: The Bank of North Dakota Scores 12th year of Record Profits The Bank of North Dakota achieves its 12th year of record growth, obliterating critics who said it was all about the gas and oil.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Public Banking (36 Articles, 154548 views), Sovereign Money (20 Articles, 78573 views) (View All Series)
Bill Still, From ImagesAttr
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, September 1, 2013
Still Report 95 - Hungary Rejects the EU Hungary is pulling away from the European Union. It recently booted the IMF out of Hungary after it made the last payment on its IMF loans. It has decided no...
The Nanoflowcell Quantino: a half decade prototype that may finally be sold to the public, From Uploaded
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My response to The Electronic Viking about Nanoflowcell EV Cars I am a regular viewer of The Electronic Viking - a YouTube channel covering the growing Electric Vehicle industry. One of the latest videos was on Nanoflowcell's technology, something I have been covering for over half a decade, even though the Electronic Viking claims "almost no one has ever heard of (Nanoflowcell)." My reaction herein.
Special Earth Day Webinar .Progress and Inequality in the 21st Century. Andrew Mazzone, President of the Henry George School & Scott Baker, President of Common Ground-NYC and author of .America is Not Broke!, From ImagesAttr
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Discussing the views of Piketty on inequality, with an eye towards Henry George (Video included) I was asked to be a co-host for a Webinar discussion by president of the Henry George School of Social Sciences in New York City, Andrew Mazzone on April 22, 2015. We discussed the views of Thomas Piketty, Yanis Varoufakis and Henry George on the economic issues of today.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views)
Electoral Map: NY Times, From ImagesAttr
(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, November 7, 2012
The Mainstream Media's continuing attack on Progressive Reality: Election Edition The New York Times declares Narrow Victory Includes Near Sweep of Swing States. Narrow victory my foot. There were a number of progressive victories not called out by the MSM. Here is a recap of what really happened and why it is another progressive mandate, just slightly smaller the in 2008.
Grand Bargain Watch - Save Social Security, From ImagesAttr
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, March 30, 2014
Asking "How to pay for Social Security" is Asking the Wrong Question Although the economic literature, pundit bloviating, and ideological rants, love to ask "How to pay for Social Security," they are all asking the wrong question. The right question is "What is the Social Security Multiplier?" By understanding this, it becomes obvious that Social Security is one of the best investments government can make.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Social Security (5 Articles, 10064 views), Sovereign Money (20 Articles, 78573 views) (View All Series)
Your Next Step Conference 96, From ImagesAttr
(58 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Netanyahu - The Speech and a practical response The speech has been made. It was well-received by those hearing it. But progressives must listen and then propose alternatives in keeping with our views and values, while recognizing legitimate security concerns of all the valid participants in the region. Here is one such set of proposals.
Series: Middle East Articles (8 Articles, 15301 views)
Federal vs. Family Budget, From ImagesAttr
(13 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, October 9, 2015
America Urgently Needs an Unbalanced Budget Taking on the Republican establishment - Rep. Vern Buchanan (F-FL16) I wrote a counter editorial that appeared in the Tennessee Cleveland Banner. Here's why balancing the budget is a bad idea and why it leads to recessions, why governemnt spending can be good and promote growth, and how it does not even have to increase the debt.
Series: Social Security (5 Articles, 10064 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views), Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views) (View All Series)
A major reform of money creation will be debated November 20, 2014 in the U.K. Parliment, From ImagesAttr
(47 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, November 15, 2014
Is this the end of debt-money at last? A major 3-hour debate on where money comes from will take place November 20 in the U.K. Parliament, on live TV, with mainstream political and media figures for the first time questioning the need for debt-based money.
Series: Banking (18 Articles, 50685 views), Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Sovereign Money (20 Articles, 78573 views) (View All Series)
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(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, December 20, 2010
Stephen Zarlenga's American Monetary Act: A Review Is there a way to eliminate all debt by replacing it with actual money. Author/economist Stephen Zarlenga says "Yes!" His proposal, the American Monetary Reform Act, is now coming up before Congress, sponsored by Dennis Kucinich. Here is a review & comparison to similar proposals.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Public Banking (36 Articles, 154548 views)
European Government Debt Infographic.
Unlike many of these EU countries, the U.S. is sovereign and can never run out of money, except by choice., From CreativeCommonsPhoto
(30 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 26, 2021
Updated: Debt No More! How Biden can defeat Austerity Thugs by Using the Constitution and Debt-Free Money Trillion dollar coin, greenbacks, or something else? The president has not just the right, but the DUTY, to pay our debts, despite the unconstitutional debt-ceiling imposed by Congress. There is broad support from economists, the constitution and fairness.
Series: Banking (18 Articles, 50685 views), Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Obama (3 Articles, 65086 views) (View All Series)
A $1m condo pays 100X the property tax rate of a $100m condo. The difference is capitalized into the price, From ImagesAttr
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Land Tax Justice at last in NYC?; My new Book The shocking discrepancy between what the rich pay in property taxes and what the 99% pays (as much as 100X). From a Sendout to two activist groups - Public Banking and Georgist group Common Ground-NYC. Presentations & announcements included.
Series: Banking (18 Articles, 50685 views), Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views) (View All Series)
Cover of America is Not Broke, From ImagesAttr
(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, November 20, 2015
My Campaign to Change the World (and also sell some books) Changing the world while selling your book. An exercise in Publicity. Using a publicist, I try to promote economic reform over a 3-month campaign. The results are in...
Series: Public Banking (36 Articles, 154548 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views), Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views) (View All Series)
(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, May 29, 2015
New York City Book Expo = Book Exposure The NYC Book Expo: promise and pitfalls in a changing industry and my own reactions as a struggling author to it.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views)
From ImagesAttr
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, November 17, 2012
The Cure for Europe: A Public option for Money and A public Bank A simple, practical, scalable solution to Europe's Political-Economic problems, made desperately necessary by near daily riots and unworkable austerity.
Series: Public Banking (36 Articles, 154548 views), Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views)
From flickr.com/photos/47422005@N04/5471912349/: Donald Trump - Caricature, From Images
(14 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, May 10, 2016
The Great Trump Sellout Begins... Trump goes trolling for dollars. He will appeal to the same donors he has campaigned against. Will they come around or will he turn-around?
Series: Elections (12 Articles, 29832 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views)
Animated Bears on Economics, From ImagesAttr
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, October 26, 2013
700,000 viewers prove economics doesn't have to be dull With few exceptions, videos on the economy have landed with a thud. Though applauded by the already converted, even the most well argued & cogent videos fail to reach people. Are the concepts so arcane & difficult that the masses just recoil? Or is the form the problem, not the content? 4 videos by malekanoms, totaling 700,000 views together support the latter view. They are short, simple, animated, funny, & insightful.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views)
Artifial Womb Factory (still in gestation phase), From Uploaded
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, January 9, 2023
The Coming of Woman-Free Gestation: Artifical Wombs Future fertility rates are going to begin to be effected in 30 years by artificial wombs. Here, a brief tour, with videos, of the rapidly growing world of growing human beings in artificial wombs.
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(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, November 9, 2012
Florida's shift to Democrats a signal of the fall of the old south Whither Republicans? Demoralized, leaderless, and with a shrinking base of angry old white men as their base; this brings new meaning to the term Grand Old Party, and there is nothing Grand about that. Some reasons why Republicans may find themselves sin long-term minority status.
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(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Economic Reform Newsletter: Are we lurching towards a one-world government? In this issue: Europe lurches towards a one-world government; Public Money alternatives; A Wise 12-year old's economic reform video goes viral; TINA vs. TARA (There Is No Alternative vs. There Are Reform Alternatives); Local Georgist news; Alternate money proves the need for more money in the REAL economy; JP Morgan's $70 trillion gamble; I am interviewed on public access TV
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Public Banking (36 Articles, 154548 views)
Is there a Money Tree?  Does it need nurturing?, From ImagesAttr
(73 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, July 15, 2014
The Flip Side of Debt Free Money Comparing Greenbacking - a system of Debt-free money - to Modern Monetary Theory of money. Debt-free money has been, and is still used, in the U.S. going back to Lincoln, as specified in a 1999 bill to create $360B in Interest-free money to fund the nation's highway infrastructure. This is something to consider as the Highway appropriations bill is held up by Republican Austerians in Congress.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Banking (18 Articles, 50685 views), Sovereign Money (20 Articles, 78573 views) (View All Series)
Elon Musk - the human version, From Uploaded
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My chat with Elon Musk AI on FTL Space Travel The immense power of AI is being wasted. Yes, it can, and has, been used to create astounding pictures, even videos. It has been used to generate stories, articles, and text answers to any questions that humans ask one another. But it's this last part that needs exploring, or exploding, perhaps. Here, a FTL spaceship is discussed with Elon Musk AI. Did we succeed?
The (mostly) former member of the formerly obscure Defense Policy Board, From Uploaded
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, November 30, 2020
Is Trump Planning A Military Coup to Retain Power? Trump will do anything to retain power, including destroying democracy itself. Herein, the latest coup attempt, cited by Cenk Uygur and laid out in Trump's own words and actions.
Belgian protest against austerity turns violent Tens of thousands of trade unionists have staged a general strike across Belgium on Thursday., From ImagesAttr
(30 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, December 27, 2014
Massive General Strikes Portend Possible Collapse Belgium is having a general Strike to strike back at draconian austerity cuts that are crippling not just Belgium, but all of Europe. This may show the way towards reversing the failed policies of the bank-led governments, but if not, there are alternatives, presented here.
Fish rots from the head, From ImagesAttr
(12 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, September 4, 2014
A Fish Rots from the Head The official numbers for inflation present a case for low inflation. Wage and income inflation is disinflationary, and since the turn of the century even deflationary. The expansionary monetary policy of the Fed is based on the perception that the policy is justified by low employment levels and the above measurements of inflation. But what if the Fed is looking at the wrong metrics?
Series: Banking (18 Articles, 50685 views), Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views) (View All Series)
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(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, November 18, 2012
Thousands of Spanish police officers march against austerity (PHOTOS) This piece was mostly supplied by one of my colleagues in the public banking movement here in the U.S. but it shows how things are reaching the final breaking point in Spain, and perhaps all of Europe. When the police - 5,000-6,000 in this case - start striking over working conditions, like a 22% cut in pay, the end for the regime is not far behind.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Public Banking (36 Articles, 154548 views)
Image crediting created from images table, From ImagesAttr
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Geoism explained on Public Access TV by...me Geoism and the Land Value Tax Geoism, based on the writings of economist Henry George, is an economic philosophy which promotes a single tax on the value of land. This theory proposes to eliminate/ reduce all other taxes and promote income equality. Scott Baker, president of Common Ground-NYC will discuss these topics.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views)
Where is the DNC server hiding?, From FlickrPhotos
(13 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, September 28, 2019
The Other Subject of Trump's Call to the Ukraine - the DNC server Why has the focus of the Trump call to the Ukraine ignored the issue of the DNC server and Crowdstrike, clearly articulated by the president?
(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, August 9, 2011
U.S. Notes: The debt-free, no tax, no borrow, no inflation, jobs program Now is the time for bold moves to save the economy, and maybe even the country. We need something big, immediate, debt-free, and effective to pull us out of our economic depression. U.S. Notes are the answer.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views)
From flickr.com/photos/47422005@N04/9508174059/: Hillary Clinton - Caricature, From Images
(12 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Hillary Feminists have cost us 2 generations of no Female Presidents Hillary Clinton has set feminist politics back 2 generations. Most of us will not see a woman president in our lifetimes.
Series: Elections (12 Articles, 29832 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views)
bitcoin accepted here, From ImagesAttr
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The Bank of England's Digital Currency proposal is part of the War on Cash Digital currency proposals by the Bank of England and some of the largest banks are a new attempt to extract wealth from the 99%, usurping their original anti-bank purpose.
The Post Office and Congress, From ImagesAttr
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, September 28, 2013
The Administration's Official Response to Saving the Post Office is total B.S. This is the official White House OMB response to a petition to save the Post Office: "Official Office of Management and Budget Response to Save the Postal Service A Balanced Approach to Reforming the Postal Service By Dana Hyde..." The official White House response to this is total B.S. It is the prefunding requirement that is responsible for over 80% of the budget shortfall.
Series: Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views), Post Office (1 Articles, 1849 views)
Flier for Trilevel Jobs Task Force Meeting, From ImagesAttr
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, October 13, 2010
My Presentation to the New York Trilevel Task Force on Jobs On October 8, 2010, I responded to an invitation to speak to members of the New York Trilevel (city/state/federal) Job Creation Task Force, in Borough President Scott Stringer's office, along with other community organization leaders.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views) (View All Series)
China Economic Growth vs. the U.S. to 2030, From ImagesAttr
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China shifts taxes to Land China has made a major shift to taxation on Land, especially in those areas with the most speculative fever, their largest cities. This will not only enhance revenue, it will provide the final link in the well-managed Chinese economy, and may spell the end of Western economic dominance, even sooner than currently forecast.
Series: Banking (18 Articles, 50685 views), Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views) (View All Series)
Donald Trump - Caricature, From FlickrPhotos
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, March 21, 2016
Land Worth=GDP and enough to replace all taxes with Land Rent Two new studies show there is enough value in land to be able to use land rent to replace all other taxes. This has particular pertinence now, when one of the country's biggest land developers is leading a populist Republican race for president. Will Trump start collecting the land rent for the people instead of people like himself?
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views)
Coronavirus precautions - the problem is the healthcare system, not the virus., From FlickrPhotos
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, March 27, 2020
Lessons from Coronavirus Ground Zero The Corona virus is exposing our real sickness: our over-burdened, under-responsive, creaky, expensive healthcare system. Unless we fix that, millions will die from periodic epidemics.
Series: Covid (16 Articles, 30549 views)
(11 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Republican Senators are violating their Oath of Office by refusing to consider any Supreme Court nominee The Senate Republicans, with a few exceptions, have sworn to reject ANY supreme court nominee made by president Obama. At the same time, they had previously sworn to uphold the Constitution. One of these oaths is in conflict with the other, and the result is a felony for which these Senators can and should be arrested.
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(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, May 18, 2010
War milestones: 1,000 dead in Afghanistan, 4,300 in Iraq & 1 Trillion spent Today, we passed 1,000 dead U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, and a Trillion spent directly on both wars since 2001 (half the lifetime for our newest recruits). See what else we could have had instead of War Everywhere, and Always.
Breadlines in Depression-Era New York City -- History of New York City, From GoogleImages
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Welcome to the New Communist Police State, blamed on a virus A virus will be blamed for our permanent loss of rights, dependence on the State, and depression. The New Communism includes a police state. And people will die from the recessions anyway.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, October 19, 2009
A Balanced View of Global Warming There's been a shift in Global Warming from denial being the mainstream view, to acceptance being mainstream, and denialists finding themselves suddenly as the minority gadflies looking in. Both extremes are probably wrong.
Common Ground-NY Logo, From ImagesAttr
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, June 30, 2011
Economic Reform Newsletter: Is the Debt Ceiling Constitutional? Is the United States even Allowed to Default? As the debt ceiling holds the country hostage to the draconian and ultimately economically self-defeating demands of the Tea Party crowd to cut spending at all costs (including the country itself), a number of scholars are debating whether the United States is even permitted to default on its obligations. Section 4 of the 14th Amendment reads: The validity of the public debt...
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views) (View All Series)
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(14 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, December 11, 2009
The Top 10 Reasons for Energy Independence have Little to do With Global Warming Don't waste your time trying to convince Climate Change Deniers of the error of their thinking. Instead, use these reasons to convince them that we need to get off foreign oil and create jobs in America.
Henry George, From ImagesAttr
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, March 19, 2010
Have Conditions in the Laboring Class improved from Henry George's Time to our Own? Labor conditions were indeed often appalling in the nineteenth century, but are they any better now? Let's start with a specific example and broaden our findings from there. A comparison of Labor's life from a hundred years ago to today. Have things improved...or been offshored?
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views)
Protests against the loss of choice are being .birthed. everywhere, due to the anti-choice decision of the Supreme Court., From FlickrPhotos
(25 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 4, 2022
The Abortion of the United States The state-by-state loss of birth choice effects much more than the individual right of when or if for a woman to have a child. The situation is fluid, brand new - though anyone who was paying attention to the supreme court arguments and the leaked Samuel Alito opinion last Spring should have seen this coming. The effects on the country will go far beyond the Right to Choose.
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SHARE More Sharing        Monday, September 21, 2009
Bike Ride to Close the Greenway Gap in NYC Sunday 11/8 at 11:00am! The Vanderbilt YMCA's America On The Move initiative and Transportation Alternatives' East Side Committee would like to invite you to a Close the Gaps in the East Side Greenway bicycle ride. The ride will take place on Sunday, September 27, 2009.
Panic buying hits New York as first coronavirus case announced., From GoogleImages
(22 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Time to reopen, at least in the worst hit city, New York City It's time to reopen in NYC. The economic consequences outweigh the potential harm of continuing the lock-down in corona virus infection rates.
Series: Covid (16 Articles, 30549 views)
AFGE Participates in #StopFastTrack Rallies, From FlickrPhotos
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, August 27, 2019
HILL TV EXCLUSIVE, Full Interview: Bernie Sanders sits down with Krystal Ball HILL TV EXCLUSIVE, Full Interview: Bernie Sanders sits down with Krystal Ball. About Rising: Rising is a weekday morning show with bipartisan hosts that breaks the mold of morning TV by taking viewers inside the halls of Washington power like never before. One of the few intelligent in-depth interviews of a leading presidential candidate. Worth the half hour view.
CORONAVIRUS - Is the Cure worse than the Disease?, From FlickrPhotos
(19 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, July 18, 2020
Bombshell Report: Herd Immunity Reached at 20% (Video) Kim Iversen cites 2 studies that show only 10-20% infection rates confer herd immunity, not 60-70% as previously believed. This means NY, UK & Sweden are already past this & other states and countries soon will be. NY can open up now, and other states soon & other measures might not be necessary or effective. It is then just a coincidence that strict measures were enacted at the same time as Covid-19 peaked.
Series: Covid (16 Articles, 30549 views)
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Community Board Meeting over Drilling the Marcellus Shale for NG To drill or not to drill, that is the question for the Marcellus Shale region that contains more natural gas than anywhere else in the country. NY City's drinking water also comes from the same region - Community Board's are concerned. My eyewitness account.
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(17 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, March 6, 2010
We CAN Have it all, Part II We have the resources - both natural and human - to rebuild America, to achieve great, world-leading Green technology. There IS enough to go around. Scarcity only exists because some have far more than they need, while others have far less. Both extreme poverty and extreme wealth are unnatural and manmade conditions of a faulty economic model.
Common Ground-NYC chapter Logo, From ImagesAttr
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 2, 2012
Educating the Next Generation For those who don't understand Georgism or Land Value Taxation, the following conversation may prove illuminating. For everyone else convinced there are no solutions to our economic ills, it will prove enlightening.
Mitch McConnell wants to create a .power-sharing. arrangement with Chuck Schumer (D). Instead, V.P. Kamala Harris should preside., From FlickrPhotos
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, January 22, 2021
Strip the Senate: Making V.P. Kamala Harris the Senate Majority Leader Former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConell (R) is refusing to give up his title. Biden and Harris have to act aggressively to prevent this sabotage. They can not do what they usually do. Republicans fight to the death to retain power. Democrats just die. And out of power they rightfully should claim.
Money Tree, From ImagesAttr
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, October 12, 2012
A Brief History of American Paper Money, with emphasis on Georgist Perspectives Government can, does, and has, created money without debt. It does this currently every time it produces physical coins, and has done so since 1792, under the original coinage act. The same option exists for paper money and its electronic equivalent.
Top hopefuls Buttigieg, Sanders under fire in Democratic debate, From GoogleImages
(11 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, February 27, 2020
Pre-Super Tuesday Predictions The jockeying for poll position in the Democratic presidential field has only just begun. The next week will be very telling.
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(22 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, February 28, 2010
Why Bankers Love War War is profitable for Bankers. It's the best investment they can make.
Hillary - These allegations are false., From FlickrPhotos
(18 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, March 16, 2016
The Hillary Clinton crime that won't go away with the nomination Hillary Clinton had a personal server set up in her house instead of using the secured government-run server. Whatever you think of Clinton, this was a breach of a very serious law and it could throw not just the election, but the entire country into turmoil.
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(21 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, January 4, 2010
I Declare Myself a No-Fly Zone I've had it. I'm done flying until both the Government and the Airlines regain their sanity.
Time travelling strobist, From FlickrPhotos
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Tales from future pasts: Musings on Time Travel An article on the possibility of Time Travel in the popular Next Big Future Science and Technology blog entitled "Quantum mechanics time travel indicates no grandfather paradox" got me to thinking about my interpretation of the Grandfather Paradox, and Time Travel in general.
(11 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, September 10, 2009
Obama's Health Plan summarized - should you support it? Points of the President's plan are laid out here, in his post-speech request to support it. Will you support this plan?
Monoculture Farm, From ImagesAttr
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, January 4, 2014
The Tax on Land and the National Diet Solving Obesity through end result taxes and diet-scolding won't work. We need to get back to the source of our food and our problems: the Land.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views) (View All Series)
The Money Tree, From ImagesAttr
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Countering Disaster Porn Disaster Porn is all the rage now. Slick videos - and some not so slick - purport to show the inevitable collapse of the economy, even the world from economic/political/environmental debt & mismanagement. Such porn provides palliatives to those who would do nothing anyway, but they are wrong and dangerous. Here's how to combat them.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views), Public Banking (36 Articles, 154548 views) (View All Series)
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, April 1, 2011
Banking on the Poor Are the poor also poor credit risks? Since 1976, Professor Muhammad Yunus, Head of the Rural Economics Program at the University of Chittagong, has said an emphatic "NO!" through his creation of micro-credit Grameen Bank. Now, that same model that has worked so well in Bangladesh, and other third world regions, comes to America.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Public Banking (36 Articles, 154548 views)
Money Tree - grown from the Commons?, From ImagesAttr
(19 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, June 27, 2014
Who should profit from the Commons? What rightfully belongs to all of us and what rightfully is part of the Commons? Who should profit from the Commons and who should collect the economic rent?
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views)
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, June 16, 2011
Will India Lead the Way in Urban Land Tax Reform? A Mission Director from the Ministry of Housing provides some Answers Indian Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation Deputy Minister Dr. PK Mohanty is interviewed on his thoughts on housing, the Land Value Tax (aka Georgism), and revenue alternatives for developing nations. Can some of these solutions apply to America too?
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views) (View All Series)
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, November 11, 2011
Economic Reform Newsletter: Derivatives; A Call to Professors!; New Videos; pres. cand. Bill Still; Bombs away in USA Many of you are new to this Newsletter, some by way of the Occupy Movement. In honor of that, and to bring those of you who haven't experienced what we* support at your particular Occupy encampment, here are some recent Occupy site presentations that support what we are aiming for in Economic Reform; Greenbacking; Bill Still for president; Water rights; Bombing SW USA; Global Warming
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views), Public Banking (36 Articles, 154548 views) (View All Series)
Common Ground-NY Logo, From ImagesAttr
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, July 16, 2011
Economic Reform Newsletter: A Way out of the Debt-Ceiling Default? Items considered: Forgiving ourselves our own debt; Printing debt-free United States Notes; State Banking; Is the Fed a branch of government?; What is Money?; How many people are really in "Tea Parties?"; A REALLY big progressive movement just 3 months old, from Spain; Voter disenfranchisement
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views) (View All Series)
Public Banking Institute 2012 Conference, From ImagesAttr
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, May 4, 2012
Economic Liberty From Philadelphia The First Annual Meeting of the Publice Banking Institute in Philadelphia provided a chance for people to examine economic solutions, network, and just maybe, pave the way for a new paradigm of economic justice and opportunity.
Julian Assange, From FlickrPhotos
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, December 20, 2022
Wife of Julian Assange speak out before the EU Parliament Stella Assange recently spoke at the European Parliament representing Julian Assange. Award-winning journalist and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been nominated for this year's Sakharov Prize, in recognition of his work defending human rights and freedom of speech. This video was produced by the Don't Extradite Assange campaign and originally published on their YouTube channel on December 19, 2022.
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, December 2, 2016
How to expose Fake News and still keep Alternative Media free Combating fake news needs to be done, but how to do it without enabling propagandists and elite filtering? And how to preserve alternative media? Here is one answer.
The Worried Dollar, From ImagesAttr
(16 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, October 3, 2013
The Debt Ceiling Kabuki Theater Plays on I just listened closely to the President's speech on CNBC on the continuing shutdown and the fast-approaching debt ceiling. Who will blink first? Is Obama just setting us up for a Grand Betrayal - what he calls a Grand Bargain - where he slashes all kinds of social programs in exchange for the extortionate Republicans releasing the American People as economic hostages? I don't know, but it makes great Kabuki Theater.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views)
244ag - Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER; 9M-MRD@ZRH;06.07.2003, From ImagesAttr
(11 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Conservative Reporter Bill Still says it was NOT the Russians who shot down MH17, it was the Ukrainians In this detailed video, Monetary Reformer, one-time Libertarian Presidential candidate, and heavily pro-American (as he explains in the first minute) Bill Still admits he was "probably wrong" about his initial assessment that it was the Russians who shot down MH17 over the Ukraine. He shows photographic evidence of 30MM cannon fire, which could only have come from an attack plane like the kind the Ukraine is using.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, July 31, 2009
The end of the Bubble Economy Modern day capitalists, and other uniformed apologists for the Bubble economy will say there is no other way if we are to have progress and growth, but to put up with booms and busts, aka "The Business Cycle." This is wrong, wrong, wrong. There is another way and it's been known for 130 years. You can have both Progress and Social Justice without compromising either. There IS a free lunch.
Many Crypto-billionaires fell off the billionaires list this year, including Bankman-Fried mentioned at the end of this video, who may face jail time too., From YouTubeVideos
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, November 21, 2022
Are Billions wasted by Billionaires? The worship of billionaires needs to end. As a class, their production is questionable, while their rent-extraction is immense, perhaps only exceeded by their flame-outs. Several examples are cited.
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Honey, I balanced the Federal Budget! (and you can too) I took the New York Times interactive "Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget" challenge, thinking it would give me a host of draconian choices between tossing widows and orphans on the street and abandoning needed infrastructure fixes etc. No, nothing of the sort. You can see my results and take the test yourself. How would YOU balance the budget?
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Public Banking (36 Articles, 154548 views)
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(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, July 5, 2012
The Great Unraveling Continues The Terrible Policy for the People agreement has another insidious aspect ignored by the media thus far, one which will make neo-feudalism complete.
Nurse Practioner speaks out against mistreatment of patients in NYC, From Uploaded
(11 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, May 1, 2020
"People are being murdered by horrible care for Covid-19 in NYC" - Licensed Nurse Practioner People are dying of Covid-19 from terrible treatments that are killing them, not because of science, but often politics. Doctors and other medical professionals are speaking out, but the politics are overwhelming.
Series: Covid (16 Articles, 30549 views)
Covid-19 is everywhere, including the headlines., From FlickrPhotos
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, June 11, 2020
10 thoughts on the Covid Crisis Where are we in the Covid curve? While some areas become safer, others are seeing skyrocketing rates of infection. Some observations, positive and negative.
Series: Covid (16 Articles, 30549 views)
Alanna Hartzok, From ImagesAttr
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 18, 2014
A Georgist in Congress? A Georgist in the U.S. House? Why not? Long-time Georgist Alanna Hartzok is running again for the 9th district in Pennsylvania, this time on the Democratic ticket. Her campaign theme centers around the right to land for all, and fair collection of rent from those who use it.
Series: Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views)
From tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/RussiaToday: Russia Today (Creator) - TV Tropes, From Images
(12 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, October 18, 2016
A U.K. Bank shuts down Russia Today's Bank Account U.K. Bank shuts down RT account, following on other "sanctions" against Russia for supposed war crimes no different than our own, except that they were invited in and we weren't. A bad path gets worse.
New York National Guard checking for Corona virus., From WikimediaPhotos
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, April 1, 2020
COVID-19 Treatments may soon be available..if they're allowed to be We live in the Information Age. Will the best science be allowed to cure us of the corona virus, or will old Big Pharma and Big Bureaucracy force people to wait, and die?
Series: Covid (16 Articles, 30549 views)
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, February 13, 2014
Debating the Anarcho-Capitalists I don't normally reproduce comments and counter-arguments as articles, because they tend to be incoherent and hard to understand as standalone articles. But, in this case, this article in the anarcho-capitalist Daily Bell Blog, when they took on Ellen Brown and her run for Treasurer in California, turned into something that seemed article-worthy. I think it is instructive to see how the anarcho-capitalist mind-set works.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views), Sovereign Money (20 Articles, 78573 views) (View All Series)
Green Party of Ontario Logo, From ImagesAttr
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, January 2, 2011
My Interview with Green Party of Ontario Politicians: Erich Jacoby Hawkins & John Fisher Not all the answers to our political and economic difficulties will come from the Democratic or Republican parties. They do things differently in Canada, where third parties have more influence. Herein are a series of answers from my interviews of two of the leading figures in the Green Party of Ontario.
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(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, February 20, 2011
Zero Reserve Banking? Last March, Ben Bernanke wrote: "The Federal Reserve believes it is possible that, ultimately, its operating framework will allow the elimination of minimum reserve requirements, which impose costs and distortions on the banking system." Is this a bad thing? What are the root causes of the crash, beyond insufficient regulation & what can be done?
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Public Banking (36 Articles, 154548 views)
The declining share of land rent as a source of revenue means other sources must be tapped, at the expense of productivity, From ImagesAttr
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, January 24, 2014
Talking about Geoism with RT TV's Abby Martin on "Breaking the Set" Talking about Geoism with Abby Martin; a chance to focus on local collection of Ground Rent in New York City
Series: Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views), Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views) (View All Series)
Trade Justice Coalition, From ImagesAttr
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, October 14, 2012
Take Action: TPP - NAFTA on Steroids, meeting in NYC The Sierra Club, Environmental Working Group and Trade Justice are holding an educational forum on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a massive new free trade agreement being negotiated behind closed doors by 600 transnational corporations. The Nation calls it "NAFTA on Steroids."
Series: TPP (3 Articles, 8490 views)
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(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, February 8, 2020
A modest proposal for the settlements on the Israeli West Bank Israel, whether it chooses to acknowledge it or not (or we do), is heading toward a one-state solution. Here's an alternative that no one has proposed, which will end the bloodshed and produce positive change for both sides, and for the world.
left-vs-right-politics is warping our thinking, even killing people., From GoogleImages
(18 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Politics, Politics, Politics...and Science Left-Right ideology is not just pitting Americans against each other, it is killing them. Covid-19 is an object lesson.
You voted, but most Americans didn't., From FlickrPhotos
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, November 10, 2016
About Our Recent Miselection... Elections aren't voting contests, they are choices a minority of voters make among a pre-selected pair of unrepresentative candidates. The process is broken and exclusive. Why Trump didn't win the popular vote and still won 3:2 the electoral college.
Series: Elections (12 Articles, 29832 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views)
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(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, August 22, 2009
How to fix Scarecare What is really behind the fear-mongering blocking healthcare reform. It is not cost, Death Panels, or any of the other straw-men. It is ideology.
(52 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, July 29, 2014
What is an American Corporation and does it Matter? Robert Reich opines on corporate tax evasion and inversion, but his proposals fall short of what is needed. Here are the solutions he missed.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views)
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, June 29, 2009
Geonomics and the true cost of poverty The real reason for poverty has nothing to do with labor, or even with (true) capitalists, it has to do with monopolists. This was recognized in 1879, by political philosopher Henry George. An updated form, Geonomics, provides the way out of our mess - before it is too late.
CDC, From FlickrPhotos
(46 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, February 14, 2022
What the CDC has to say about VAERS and the state of Covid Here is what the CDC itself has to say about VAERS, Covid Burden, the number of confirmed vs. estimated cases, and the outlook for the future.
Percentage of Vaccinations by Age, From Uploaded
(80 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, February 3, 2022
Covid Compromises: A Chance to use the latest science to Save the Republic It's time for Covid Compromises, to move to an understanding that the disease is endemic and away from mandates and toward rational solutions. Will this happen before democracy dies? Meanwhile, Trump-supporters are dying for their anti-vax cause, maybe enough to swing the next election.
Voters vote progressive, when given specific choices., From ImagesAttr
(11 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, November 6, 2014
Progressive victories on Ballot Items Voters choose Yes on progressive ballot referendums, countering conservative candidate choices.
Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell - getting fat off of Blue State generosity?, From FlickrPhotos
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Blue States overpay Taxes and Should withhold them Senator Mitch McConnell has picked a fight over state public pensions badly supported, so he claims anyway, in Blue democratic states like those in the northeast and Illinois. Fine. New York's Governor Cuomo has called him out on it. He should go further.
Trump and major Democratic candidates, From MyPhotos
(17 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Sanders blows away Clinton in West Virginia. What next? The contest tightens up, with momentum on Sanders side. Will it be enough to turn the tide and should the Democratic Party be looking at who can best defeat Donald Trump?
Series: Elections (12 Articles, 29832 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views)
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(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, May 21, 2010
The fate of the EU What will happen to the EU if - as predicted - Germany votes to guarantee Greek debts? Would the world be better off without the Euro? Is this what American Bankers wanted all along as it would end pricing oil in alternative currency by Iran & other unfriendly nations?
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views), Public Banking (36 Articles, 154548 views) (View All Series)
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, March 21, 2020
What Lies Ahead: the problem is not the Corona-virus It's not the virus that is causing markets to plunge and 100s of thousands of people to lose their jobs, soon to be millions. It's the economy, stupid.
Series: Covid (16 Articles, 30549 views)
The Elephant in the Room is the hedge fund, From ImagesAttr
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Pension Fund Giant Calpers divests itself of Hedge Funds, citing underperformance and opacity The news was greeted with shock by some, while others wondered what took so long. In perhaps the first of many shoes to drop on the hedge fund industry, the largest U.S. pension fund, CalPERS (California Public Retirement System) announced it will sell all of its hedge fund investments within 12 months. Media stories on this announcement were quick to cite lagging performance of these funds over the past year.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Public Banking (36 Articles, 154548 views)
Iconic Images of California, From ImagesAttr
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, July 20, 2010
The Political Math Of The Geoist California Tax Reform Initiative Attorney and activist Frank D. Walker makes the case for radical tax reform in California. See how the Single Tax could alleviate wealth inequity, and create prosperity forever, fairly and simply. California's Legislative Analyst and Department of Finance estimate that the new tax on land rent will generate revenues of $130 billion to $160 billion annually.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views)
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Healthcare Reform is dead: So Says Wall Street To pay for Healthcare, you'd better invest in the stock market. All other options are "off the table," says the charts and Reuters.
Beth Pierce, From ImagesAttr
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, October 24, 2013
Public banking advocate takes on Vermont State Treasurer There are several things wrong with the article in the Vermont Digger, cited herein, investigating the rationale for a state public bank, "State treasurer prefers local investments to public banking" in VT Digger, starting from the most basic question "Where is the money going to come from to start a state bank?" Reasons are explored herein.
Series: Banking (18 Articles, 50685 views), CAFR reform (5 Articles, 43069 views), Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views) (View All Series)
Greeks face off.  What happens when the police switch sides?, From ImagesAttr
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, July 31, 2015
The Real Lessons in Greek for Leftists The Greeks are in line for another bailout, or are they? Who is really getting bailed out here? What can Greece do to prevent capital flight? The answers here...
Series: Public Banking (36 Articles, 154548 views), Greek Economics (4 Articles, 8156 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views) (View All Series)
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, September 3, 2020
Pregnant Australian Woman Arrested for organizing a Covid anti-lockdown Protest March Freedom of speech and protest are gone in Australia, at least when it comes to Covid-19. One woman's videotaped arrest for a pre-crime of organizing an anti-lockdown rally, is causing a viral storm of a different kind.
Series: Covid (16 Articles, 30549 views)
Will a Grexit cause a European collapse?, From ImagesAttr
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, July 3, 2015
Varoufakis: Vote NO on Sunday's Referendum AND Stay in the EU There's a critical vote coming for the Greek people Sunday, one that may shape the future of Europe and even the world. Yet, the actual object of the vote is poorly understood and interpreted differently by those presenting it and those voting upon it.
Series: Greek Economics (4 Articles, 8156 views), Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Banking (18 Articles, 50685 views) (View All Series)
Bernie Sanders - Painting, From ImagesAttr
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Bernie vs. Donald The conventional wisdom was always more about the media than the voters. Here's why it'll be Sanders vs. Trump after the primaries.
Series: Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views)
Bernie Sanders, From ImagesAttr
(43 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, March 7, 2014
What a Bernie Sanders Presidential Run would really require Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders is making news by declaring his undeclared status as a possible presidential candidate in 2016. But there's more to winning an election than having the right candidate.
TPP Leesburg Rally, From FlickrPhotos
(16 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, November 7, 2015
The Terrible Policy for the People (TPP) The TPP is not all it's cracked up to be, it's much worse. An analysis of part of chapter 17, and public and candidate positions on the agreement.
Series: TPP (3 Articles, 8490 views)
Fred Foldvary, From ImagesAttr
(17 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, June 15, 2015
A rebuttal to those who discount the Multiplier Effect of spending on Social Security The Money Multiplier is real and demonstrates why Social Security payments are a net positive for the economy. Herein, a rebuttal to a well-known economist who refuses to see it.
Series: Social Security (5 Articles, 10064 views), Sovereign Money (20 Articles, 78573 views)
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, August 27, 2010
An animated interview of John Perkins, author of 'HoodWinked' and 'Confessions Of An Economic Hitman' John Perkins, self-confessed economic hitman, provides the narration for this short animation showing how our form of "mutant, viral form of capitalism" is destroying individual countries, and the world. A summary like no other.
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(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, March 27, 2010
Natural Gas Drilling in Catskills: Both Unnecessary & Dangerous Once we lose our water supply to Natural Gas drilling, it will be almost impossible to get it back. We will have to spend billions to filter water from the Catskills - our main source of NYC water - or to clean toxic chemicals directly out of the reservoir.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, November 7, 2016
The opening case against Election Fraud is filed by Donald Trump The first case of election fraud has been filed by Donald Trump's campaign in Broward County, in the critical swing state of Florida. An affidavit has been notarized and filed (see link) by a temporary election office worker who was fired after a day and a half.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, December 25, 2009
Santa's White Christmas: Youtube Cartoon Song Sing along with Santa and his reindeer! Enjoy.
Covid Debate?, From FlickrPhotos
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The Incohenrence of the Left on Covid19 The Left is as incoherent as the Right in going after the unvaccinated. What exactly is their policy? What is their point? What do they want?
Series: Covid (16 Articles, 30549 views)
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Why I Am Pro Roe V. Wade Is a reasonable compromise between pro-life and pro-choice possible? A scientific and logical look at the issues, and at the foundation of the abortion debate: Roe V. Wade.
Tweedledom and Tweedledee, From ImagesAttr
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, November 4, 2010
We have to Rescue our own Darn Economy, because Obama and the Party of No won't Obama has learned nothing from the Democratic defeat at the polls. Here are some solutions to the economic malaise, if he and the Dems would only grow a spine.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views)
Eric Gerner being held on the ground in an illegal chokehold, From ImagesAttr
(11 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, December 3, 2014
No Justice for Eric Garner A Staten Island grand jury voted on Wednesday not to bring criminal charges in the death of Eric Garner, a black man who died after being placed in a chokehold by a white police officer. Is there NOTHING the police can do that will result in a trial or conviction?
Ted Cruz-nocchio, From FlickrPhotos
(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Canadian Ted Cruz cruising to victory? Ted Cruz is a serial liar, megalomaniac and fraud. He makes Donald Trump look clean and honest by comparison.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, February 15, 2009
Saving the Economy Without Spending a Dime Think things are bad in the economy now? Wait until the half quadrillion dollar derivatives crisis hits. Herein a solution that is fair and won't cost taxpayers a dime.
From ImagesAttr
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, July 29, 2011
Economic Reform Newsletter: Ways Forward Against the Opposition Issues discussed: The Tea Party, Greenbacks (United States Notes, including a new petition), paying for desperately needed infrastructure, Darwin, the latest Census, A political third party, the hacking of Ohio results in the 2004 presidential election, a Junk Food Tax?
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views) (View All Series)
2nd Amendment, From FlickrPhotos
(12 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, May 25, 2022
To Stop Gun Violence, Form a Well-Regulated Militia Here we are again. Another mass shooting, coming just a week after yet another mass shooting in Buffalo, New York targeting black people. This most recent one was targeting kids, 19 of them. A teacher got in the way and made the 20th fatality. It's time to try something different, radically different.
U.S. Notes have been issued in many forms since 1862 until 1972, remaining in official circulation until 1996., From WikimediaPhotos
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, May 26, 2023
Updated: Debt No More! How Biden can defeat Austerity Thugs by Using the Constitution and Debt-Free Money Trillion dollar coin, greenbacks, or something else? The president has not just the right, but the DUTY, to pay our debts, despite the unconstitutional debt-ceiling imposed by Congress. There is broad support from economists, the constitution and fairness.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views)
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(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Review of American Monetary Institute's "The Blueprint for Prosperity for All" As we celebrate the 4th of July, it's worth asking "what have we achieved Independence from?" Have we become independent of a foreign power only to become dependent on monied interests here at home (AND internationally)? What can be done? The American Monetary Institute has an answer.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Economic Reform Newsletter: Occupy Everything Movement, What Is Money?, A Banker-Led Lincoln Assassination?, Iceland The latest newsletter covers: Occupy Wall Street (with pics), State Banking, Land Value Taxation, CAFRs reform, Greenbacking, Modern Monetary Theory. Local funding options for NYC. What is Money? Henry George Was Lincoln Assassinated by the Bankers? The biggest economics group in the world - online. What if we're NOT broke? Iceland update. Perry's economic non-miracle
Democratic Donkey & Republican Elephant - Caricatures, From ImagesAttr
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, December 12, 2014
The Obama Spending Bill compromise: a Portent of the Future Obama's latest cave to Republicans, in the anti-citizen spending bill, is just the most recent sign of what we can expect when the Republicans take control of both houses, after stealing the elections.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views)
(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, September 15, 2009
We Get the Government we deserve - NO, We DON'T! I strongly reject the statement that we "get the laws and government we deserve." This is the same radical-right blame-the-victim mentality that allows people who simply work hard and buy into the American dream to be trampled and then left shaking their heads wondering where they went wrong.
From ImagesAttr
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, March 1, 2010
Progress Report: Is stealing public money the real reason for invasion? The Spoils of War: Billions Over Baghdad War is wrong in more than one way. This story is excerpted from Vanity Fair (October 2007 Edition) where the authors, the only journalists in history to have won two Pulitzer Prizes and two National Magazine Awards, are contributing editors.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, September 14, 2010
The Results are in! The New York Voting Machines Stink! I'm writing this before the evening crush of after-work voters, but already there are problems being reported with NY's new government-mandated voting machines. The NY Times Blog reports: On the first day a new voting system was unveiled in New York City that was supposed to be speedier and more accurate, the process was plagued with problems with some polling places opening as much as four hours late...
Artificial Intelligence is going beyond what even its creators can comprehend. Time to apply the brakes?, From CreativeCommonsPhoto
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, March 30, 2023
AI leaders call for a Pause to AI A group of the highest level AI leaders, though notably not all of them at the leading companies like OpenAI, have signed a joint letter requesting (from whom??) a pause in the development of AI for 6 months.
Series: Artificial Intelligence (4 Articles, 6219 views)
Artificial Intelligence is going beyond what even its creators can comprehend. Time to apply the brakes?, From CreativeCommonsPhoto
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, February 3, 2023
Chatting with ChatGPT about Public Banking AI can provide useful insights into a great many things of importance to human beings. Here, partly at the request of leaders from the Public Banking Institute (PBI), is a discussion I had with ChatGPT, the currently best known natural language AI engine.
Series: Artificial Intelligence (4 Articles, 6219 views)
(19 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, July 2, 2009
How the Terminator Can Save the World California has the 12th largest economy in the world - bigger than all the BRIC economies except China. It's not only true that "As goes California, so goes the nation," it would not be hyperbole to say that, "...so goes the world, too." A crisis is a terrible thing to waste. Here's how Arnold could Save the World.
A red Imp (they come in 6 colors), From Uploaded
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, September 22, 2022
My New (Old) Book: Impland: An Alien Utopia : A 40th Anniversary Retrospective A self-review of my latest book. Part science fiction, part fantasy, part retrospective, Impland presents a future vision from a child's eyes, reinterpreted through that child as a man 40 years later.
Series: Books (1 Articles, 1352 views)
Cementario Santa Mara Magdalena de Pazzis in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, From FlickrPhotos
(11 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, May 16, 2017
To defeat Trump, Make Puerto Rico a State Puerto Rico holds a key position in defeating Trump and his cohorts in the midterms, and beyond.
From Hartzok for Congress Website, From ImagesAttr
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, October 13, 2014
Congressman Shuster's Failure To Act Threatens Airline Safety Congressman Bill Shuster (R-PA9) continues to stall commonsense legislation in his subcommittee that could add an extra layer of protection to the vital cockpit area, against hijacking. His opponent in Pennsylvania's 9th District is fighting back, with a press conference including 9/11 widows and experts in airplane safety.
Series: Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views)
U.S. Notes have been issued in many forms since 1862 until 1972, remaining in official circulation until 1996., From WikimediaPhotos
(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, October 26, 2015
Updated: Debt No More! How Biden can defeat Austerity Thugs by Using the Constitution and Debt-Free Money Trillion dollar coin, greenbacks, or something else? The president has not just the right, but the DUTY, to pay our debts, despite the unconstitutional debt-ceiling imposed by Congress. There is broad support from economists, the constitution and fairness.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, February 1, 2018
Swiss to Vote on State Money June 10, 2018 Monetary Reformer & award-winning film-maker Bill Still reports on a Swiss referendum to establish Sovereign Money in place of Bank Money. For those who need an introduction beyond Still's video, see my articles on the subject, of this short article on the Greenback Party, active in the post Civil War period to promote Lincoln's United States Notes.
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(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, August 14, 2011
Talking to Regular People Regarding Economic Reform People who have taken some alternative economics classes, read some alternative economics books (e.g. Henry George, Ellen Brown, Stephen Zarlenga etc.), often ask me, "now that I've read/learned there are better ways to do things, how do I broach the subject with people? I am eager to get the good news that there are solutions out there, but I don't know how to do it!"
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views)
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, February 26, 2016
Christina Romer refutes Gerald Friedman's analysis of Bernie Sanders economic plan: A Rebuttal & Observation The wonks are warring over Sanders proposals. Are they looking at all the factors fairly? A possible policy addition is proposed too.
Protesting 'the slow murder' of Julian Assange., From FlickrPhotos
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, June 5, 2022
Journalists Speak Up For Assange t's beyond time that presidents from Obama to Trump to Biden finally dropped all charges and/or pardoned Assange for the crime of reporting news (yes, I know he's accused of conspiring to hack information, but even if one accepts the tenuous highly flawed argument that he actually did that, the man has suffered enough by now, and may be permanently crippled in mind and body.
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Nationalize Money Creation: Taking back Money Creation from the Federal Reserve It's time - near the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve act of 1913 - to seriously question what this institution is doing for us. We can re-nationalize the power to create money and make it a sovereign right and obligation, again, as it is in the Constitution and ought to be. Support the American Monetary Act.
See Bernie Sanders' reaction to Trump floating 2024 presidential run Sen. Bernie Sanders talks to CNN's Anderson Cooper about the possibility of President Donald Trump running for president again ..., From YouTubeVideos
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, January 18, 2022
Will 2024 be the election battle of the ages? Hmm, do you think Sanders is separating himself from the corporatist Democrats for a 2024 presidential run? I know, I know. Sanders will turn 83 September 8, 2024, just before election day. Well, guess what? Biden turns 82 just a few days after the 2024 election, on November 20.
Harriet Tubman on the Money, From FlickrPhotos
(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, April 22, 2016
Replacing American Liberty on the $20 bill The replacing of president Jackson on the $20 bill is more than just a re-balancing of history. And it is also less than the populist change than it appears. It has as much to do with supplicating the pro-banker forces as appeasing the anti-racist ones.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Sovereign Money (20 Articles, 78573 views)
Donald Trump, From FlickrPhotos
(15 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Donald Trump's Bold, Progressive Idea to end ISIS, reduce dependency on M.E. oil and even save the planet Donald Trump threatens to get off of Saudi Arabian oil, perhaps the most progressive foreign policy espoused in the presidential race, from EITHER Republicans or Democrats. Actions have good consequences, even if you're The Donald.
Bill Still in London, From ImagesAttr
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Still Report 97 - Turkey's Monetary Reform (vidoes) Monetary reformer, presidential candidate, and award-winning documentary film-maker Bill Still, was asked to give a keynote speech by the president of Turkey. Here is his report on that meeting, though not his speech. Although they have not yet fully embraced sovereign, debt-free money, he says: "The International Forum on Financial Systems in Istanbul, Turkey was quite a surprise. Other EU countries & the U.S. are covered.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views)
Chart: Jake Dobkin / Gothamist Source: NYC DOH Get the data Created with Datawrapper, From Uploaded
(28 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, January 4, 2021
Several reasons why Covid-19 stats are Overblown There are several reasons why Covid-19 stats are overblown, having to do with both diagnosis and susceptibility.
Series: Covid (16 Articles, 30549 views)
Did Trump commit voter fraud by voting where he is not a resident?, From FlickrPhotos
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Did Trump commit Voter Fraud? Did Trump and his wife commit voter fraud by voting in Florida, where they should not be allowed to declare residency? It sure looks that way.
Libertarian Presidential Candidate Jo Jorgensen, From FlickrPhotos
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, November 14, 2020
Did Jo Jorgensen cost Trump the Election? Jo Jorgensen, the Libertarian candidate for president, garnered enough votes in two battleground states, and possibly a third, TBD, to have possibly swung the election to Biden. The major parties ignore the lesson at their peril, especially if more states adopt ranked choice voting, like Maine.
Julian Assange, From FlickrPhotos
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, September 2, 2022
Latest update from Journalists Speak Up For (Julian) Assange Almost forgotten in light of larger, more threatening stories, is the plight of Julian Assange, informally charged with espionage for basically committing Journalism.
Julian Assange, From FlickrPhotos
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, December 6, 2022
Speak Up For Assange celebrates its 3rd Anniversary by Speaking Up for Assange Julian Assange continues to languish in torture-like conditions in Britain's notorious Belmarsh prison, pending appeals and despite having long past his sentence for trying to escape deportation to Sweden for charges that have long since been dropped. The alternative of extraditing him to America to face espionage charges is probably worse.
Series: Freedom of the press (1 Articles, 1281 views)
Street Person, From ImagesAttr
(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, November 21, 2010
Do Human Rights Exist? Do Human Rights exists at all? Sometimes you have to wonder, in a world where they are so often denied or suppressed. But, yes, Virginia (or whatever your name is), they do...
Ted Cruz and John Kasich get together (Hook-Up) Crasich, From FlickrPhotos
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, May 7, 2016
Have Ted Cruz & John Kasich really suspended their campaigns? Is it all over and is Trump really the presumptive nominee? Maybe not say some supporters and at least one conservative commentator.
Series: Elections (12 Articles, 29832 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views)
Michelle Bachman, From ImagesAttr
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, August 10, 2011
The H.Y.P.O.C.R.I.S.Y. Act: Making politicians mean what they say, or else... The H.Y.P.O.C.R.I.S.Y. Act - making politicians who talk the talk against government agencies, walk the walk, and not accept money from them, or be "burdened" by their regulations. Their constituencies will love them for it!...or will they?
Series: Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views)
Don't Ask Don't Tell Military Activists, From ImagesAttr
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, October 15, 2010
No Drama Obama just caused a Dramatic Shift in Control of both House and Senate to the Republicans Between failing to follow Federal Judge Virginia Phillips' orders - and to be fair, Obama asked the judge to stay her order, he didn't appeal the ruling - and tomorrow's announcement of the second year in a row of trillion+ deficits, Obama has just cost the Democrats both the Senate and the House, and doomed his Administration to 2 years of paralysis, at BEST - and probably his own chances at re-election in 2012.
Covid-19, From WikimediaPhotos
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, November 24, 2021
My take on OEN Brainstorming on Covid Social Changes Covid symptoms affect society as well as the individual. Covid has accelerated trends, for good and bad, and introduced new ways of being. What will society look like from here on?
Series: Covid (16 Articles, 30549 views)
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(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, October 4, 2009
Making our own money: Returning to the constitution It will be interesting to see what finally happens when the U.S. - the largest member nation of the IMF - defaults on its loans, or else tries to inflate and devalue the dollar enough to repay them. The ways to end this debt-cycle - which only serves the holders and sellers of the debt, the banks - however, are clear.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The Final Inspection As an atheist, this is an unusual posting for me. But it moved me, and I think it will move you too.
(17 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, August 20, 2018
Social Media Sites Censoring shows User Distrust Fake news can be identified without the need for broad-brush censorship the MSM and now, social media sites, are practicing. We risk losing the free and open internet.
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(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, August 25, 2009
FLAME Hotline: Sweden's blood libel accusation represents a new low, even by European standards Yesterday, I quicklinked several, frankly, anti-Zionist articles. In the interest of fair response, I am copying a rejoinder of sorts, from FLAME (Facts and Logic About the Middle East). There are enough out-of-balance sites on this issue already.
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(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, August 28, 2009
Space Dreams: Keeping America from being Grounded and outa Space It's time to refocus the Space Station and Space Shuttle on a new mission, one that will reach for the planets, and beyond. A mission that will boldly go where no one has gone before, and that will be achievable in 10 years, inspire a new generation of scientists and engineers, and still be relatively inexpensive.
(16 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, August 2, 2009
Why God Condones Torture God supports the policies of the state. Isn't that a divine coincidence? Why torture is practiced has nothing to do with its effectiveness and more to do with fear of Hell on Earth.
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(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, May 7, 2010
Up from the depths comes a bubbling crude Unlike the Beverly Hillbillies, BP's 'shot in the ground' - in this case a mile below the surface of the gulf - will not lead to a destitute family living in a mansion in Beverly Hills, happily ever after. That was fiction. In real life, shrimpers and fishermen, living catch to catch will lose the livlihoods as the shrimp and fish lose their lives in a thick gooey mess, whose surface presence understates the enormous damage.
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, June 28, 2009
A new form of Capitalism: Geonomics Let's make a deal with all the fossil fuel companies, CAFOs, mining companies, and all other resource-intensive industries. We'll untax their profits IF they agree to pay true costs for resources (which, rightfully, really belong to all of us; Exxon didn't make the oil in the ground, did it?), as well as pollution, land use and whatever else they don't actually produce, but merely take from nature.
Earth Day succeeded by being ignored, From InText
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, April 23, 2020
Economics, Post Earth Day at 50 Earth Day and Economics are more entwined than commonly admitted. Some thoughts on both, one missed, the other on life support.
US Federal Debt Held By Public as of Sep. 2020., From WikimediaPhotos
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, March 20, 2023
What does ChatGPT have to say about the Debt Ceiling Crisis? What does AI in the form of ChatGPT have to say about innovative solutions to paying down the debt already authorized by Congress, using United States Notes? It says there are no legal constraints, but there could be political obstacles.
Series: Artificial Intelligence (4 Articles, 6219 views)
Biden wins: Truth Prevails!, From FlickrPhotos
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, December 18, 2020
It's not over: How Trump Might Still Be Inaugurated for a Second Term Democrats and their allies are dismissing the challenges to the Election at their peril. Behind the scenes Trump's allies are working furiously on new cases, selecting alternate electors or a Congressional override on January 6 (both of which have precedent). Conservative reporter Bill Still features a Michigan City Councilman (unnamed) who walks through all the steps still open to the Republicans.
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SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Economic Reform Newsletter: Ellen Brown for Council of Economic Advisers Discussed in this issue: Continuing European crisis and what to do about it - Hurricane Sandy and how to prevent the damage from the next one - Ellen Brown for president's Economic Advisory Council - Public Banking to the Rescue - the dilution of gold, and why it shouldn't matter - Spain's good news - petitions
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Public Banking (36 Articles, 154548 views)
Kochtopus - the influence of Koch-Cash, From ImagesAttr
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, February 13, 2014
The Public vs. the Kochtopus Which is stronger? The People or the Kochtopus? An Activist's analysis of the Grayson campaign and negative ads by the Koch Brothers.
Donald Trump is a very stable genius.  It was in the newspaper so it must be true!, From FlickrPhotos
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, July 2, 2021
Donald Trump - Super (Stable) Genius! Trump is a Very Stable Genius. We know this because he told us. At the same time, he is one of the most altruistic people to have ever lived and one of the most progressive.
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine - perhaps alterable, but only up to the national borders?, From WikimediaPhotos
(15 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, October 20, 2022
Ukraine and the Home Front Advantage The Home Front Advantage is a frequently over-looked force multiplier, capable of making even small countries prevail against much larger, more powerful ones. Here, the concept is analyzed historically and applied to the Russia-Ukraine war.
There are infinite causes of the Israel-Palestine wars. Maybe there need to be a few new solutions too?, From CreativeCommonsPhoto
(67 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, November 27, 2023
Two states for Israel and Palestine is dead. Time for new Solutions. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting the same results. The Israel-Palestine conflict is insane. Time for alternatives.
Series: Middle East Articles (8 Articles, 15301 views), Israel/Palestine (2 Articles, 2058 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views) (View All Series)
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Lessons from the Radical Somewhere These days, Economic Reform groups have replaced Stock Investment clubs as the trendy thing to join. After two 50% crashes in the three major indexes (Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq), it is unsurprising that people burned by stagnant employment, opportunities, and wages for years would rise to the occasion by promoting radical reformation of the most complicated thing ever invented by Man - the economy. But we are.
Julian Assange, by Mahn Kloix, From FlickrPhotos
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, September 21, 2020
Julian Assange extradition trial - update - week 2 With so many important things to focus on these days, it may be hard to remember that a ground-breaking journalist is fighting for his freedom, and possibly his life. The American charges against a foreign journalist in a foreign court, are unprecedented and severe. If Assange is extradited, he faces the very real possibility of spending the rest of a very miserable life in an American super-max prison.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Lessons from the Radical Somewhere: Part 2 We are really talking a tale of two economies here. The official line is that there are strapped states and cities, taking them at their word that this is so. I say it is not only not so, but that there is money, and then some to spare. Find out here where it's been hiding in plain sight.
Petitioning is hard work..., From ImagesAttr
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, March 6, 2014
Petitioning the Government for a Redress of Grievances in the Modern Day Petitioning the Government for redress has a long and honorable history. It's also the first of our First Amendment Rights. Today, because of both security and accessibility reasons, you have to use the modern tools to do it.
Series: Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views)
Chuck Schumer - Caricature, From ImagesAttr
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, March 19, 2014
So, Senator ____ what are YOU going to do about the NSA? What should YOUR Senator or Congressperson be doing to protect you against the NSA's warrant-less snooping? Here's what one of mine mine is doing, for better or worse.
Series: Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views)
Prediction of the future?, From FlickrPhotos
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Big Tech Social Media is in Over its Head About Censoring Policies The free and open internet is under attack like never before. Under the cover of election-obsessed coverage, the Congress is holding hearings on how to make social media conform to standards that itself can never agree upon.
Democratic 2020 hopefuls Biden, Harris, From GoogleImages
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, August 22, 2020
Reasons for Optimism in Biden/Harris Biden/Harris is not as bad or regressive a combination as many progressives think. But the contest will be more difficult than the polls indicate. Why progressives should pull out all the stops right now to ensure Trump's defeat and progressive change.
Hacking an election is about influence and disruption, not voting ..., From GoogleImages
(11 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, October 20, 2016
Will the Election be Rigged? The big news of the debate last night is that Trump may not accept the results of the election. It sounded like sore loserism, since presumably he won't challenge the election if he wins. But Trump was right to question the possible results of the election.
Series: Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views)
Pension Funds are not primarily for Pensioners, they benefit fund managers up to 10X more., From FlickrPhotos
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, March 9, 2023
It's time to retire the city and state retirement funds 95%-100% of city and state pension funds will never go to pensioners; they are simply rolled over every year. Why are centi-billion dollar pension funds that make 0%-5% net after fees and excluding contributions being kept at all?
From ImagesAttr
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, August 19, 2009
How to Fight Like a Republican and Win like a Progressive The President needs to take off the gloves, fight back, name names, draw lines in the sand with the VETO, and stop being so damned rational. If he loses this health care debate, he will lose his base, which is all the opposition cares about.
Scene from Big Men, From ImagesAttr
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, March 15, 2014
Big Men - Film Review Exploring the oil curse in Ghana and Nigeria, using fairness and balance.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views)
Money Tree, From ImagesAttr
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, March 7, 2013
Sequester this! There are many solutions to the our economic imbalance and the greatest wealth inequity in our history. The, possibly unconstitutional, sequester isn't one of them.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views)
Is the Money Tree Healthy?, From ImagesAttr
(21 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, July 14, 2013
The Activism Blues Will activism be enough to change the course of human history? Is it hubris to imagine we can?
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, June 7, 2020
Midway to Normal? Musings on Covid, Protests & Primaries so far The news is changing from 24/7 Covid to something resembling normal breath and depth...but we aren't there yet.
Series: Covid (16 Articles, 30549 views)
Percentage of Variants Among New Covid Cases in NYC, From Uploaded
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, October 17, 2021
The State of the Covid in NYC and Beyond Widely followed and respected Johns Hopkins is now showing 724,000 deaths from Covid-19. What is the state of prevention, care, and the trend as of mid-October?
Series: Covid (16 Articles, 30549 views)
Democrats are as firmly in support of abortion rights as the GOP is in opposition. | AP Photo, From ImagesAttr
(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, October 26, 2012
Can we talk about Abortion like Adults yet? It's no secret the conservative branch of Republicans, and maybe most of them, want to define abortion as murder for everyone, and a new poll shows 15 GOP Senate candidates would deny abortions, even in cases of rape. But, this article is about abortion. It's time to dispel some "loose statements" instead of "loose women."
(14 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, April 5, 2013
Obama Administration Seeks to Appease the Austerity Gods The Administration says their budget that reduces Social Security payments with the "Let them eat Cat Food" Chained CPI is "about reducing the deficit in a balanced way that economists say is best for the economy and job creation." Well, as the Washington consensus only understands debt-based money it is simply impossible for all of these things to be true at once, though it does make a swell soundbite!
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, June 29, 2009
Geonomics: what ever happened to the movement Henry George started? The good news: Georgism, under the new name of Geonomics, lives on, through schools, writings, and promoters. The bad news, George's old enemies have corrupted economics to the point where people don't even agree on the terms with which to have a debate.
Common Ground-NY Logo, From ImagesAttr
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, March 8, 2012
The Left Forum: Monopoly, the Land Bubble and the Financial Crisis. Tactics to Fight the 1% A unique phenomenon in the U.S. and the world, Left Forum convenes the largest annual conference of a broad spectrum of left and progressive intellectuals, activists, academics, organizations and the interested public. Conference participants come together to engage a wide range of critical perspectives on the world, to discuss differences, commonalities, and alternatives to current predicaments, and to share ideas...
Trump is tearing apart democracy, American norms, and the Republic itself., From FlickrPhotos
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, December 24, 2020
The Sorry State of our Republic President Trump has almost unlimited power, and he's doing everything he can to retain it, even if it means undermining democracy and everything the American republic stands for.
From ImagesAttr
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Palestine in Bloom? We've all been subjected to an endless litany of how bad things are in Palestine. But, is it possible things are complex enough that two realities can exist - for different groups of people in different places at different times? Today, an article came out in the Wall Street Journal, and repeated with more extensive photos (22) that seems to show a thriving, even bustling Palestinian territory, even in Gaza.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 22, 2022
Lithuania escalates the risk of WWIII with transit blackade This action by Lithuania, unforced by the EU or NATO, is a needless and highly dangerous escalation and the U.S. and president Biden should declare it an "incorrect application of the trade embargo and sanctions" and strongly encourage Lithuania and the EU to reconsider. NATO's alliance pact must not become a suicide pact.
Former NY DEC Commissioner Pete Grannis, From ImagesAttr
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, October 22, 2010
The Environment be Dammed! Full Speed (drilling) Ahead! Today, in a move that can only be described as brusque as it was ill-founded, Pete Grannis, "the commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Conservation since 2007, was fired Thursday by Gov. David Paterson for what a state source ascribed to "poor performance and insubordination."" Who will guard the environment when the guards have all been fired?
The Country is turning Red, From ImagesAttr
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Losing debates and losing strategies There are several ways to score a debate. Some of them refect the will of the voters and some don't. The same can be said for the strategies of the political parties.
From ImagesAttr
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, May 6, 2010
Audit the Fed The Federal reserve has taken unprecedented steps to bailout banks, spending, or at least guaranteeing, trillions of dollars to...well, to whom, exactly? We don't know. Because Bernanke has steadfastly refused even Congressional demands to open the Fed's books to reveal where the money went, or even if the recipients were American institutions.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Exposing the Fiction of Low Tax States Governor Rick Perry of Texas seriously misleads the public with his editorial as to why his state is able to balance its budget and high-income tax states like California and New York State are not. Hint, it's not just about the oil in Texas.
From ImagesAttr
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Health Insurance: Pay Up or We'll Make You Sick Instead of fixing healthcare, Congress is proposing to put the fix on the poor taxpayer by fining him/her for not taking out healthcare. That's like fining someone for being the victim of a crime.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, September 23, 2021
The Non-ending of America's Longest War Some ending of America's (Memorial Worthy in the latest Defense authorization? Award worthy too?) Longest War! It looks like Afghanistan may become another over-the-horizon war instead, with a new base of operations in India.
Lock him up!, From CreativeCommonsPhoto
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, December 17, 2022
Boiling thoughts on the Endless Objections to Legitimate Elections At what point do Election Deniers get their comeuppance in the media, in the courts, and especially in public opinion? Some of the tribe of lawyers are already getting sanctioned, and some commentators say MAGA = Make Attorneys Get Attorneys. Every single person who challenges the results of the 2020 election should read at LEAST the Wikipedia summary of the Bush V. Gore election: Bush v. Gore - Wikipedia
There is a Money Tree, but it's being guarded by private interests., From MyPhotos
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, August 11, 2022
How to Put Any City or State into Surplus, Forever The following short but major economic change will work on any city - defined here as having a population above ~100,000 people - or state. I'll use the example of New York City and New York state as examples.
(14 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, October 4, 2012
The Debate is no debate Like most progressives, I've gotten used to lowering my expectations for Obama to the subbasement. Well, get out the shovel, because it's time to dig to a new level, maybe -10. Aren't these two supposed to have significantly different views of the country, the role of government, etc? How do you "pal around" with someone you vehemently disagree with?
From ImagesAttr
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, September 19, 2011
The UMKC Buckaroo- A Currency Model for World Prosperity Do we still need more proof that money should exist in sufficient quantity to meet the productive capacity of the people who use it? Here's a local currency model that fills the gap and holds its value far better than the dollar.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views)
From ImagesAttr
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, August 20, 2009
A modest proposal for the settlements on the Israeli West Bank Israel, whether it chooses to acknowledge it or not (or we do), is heading toward a one-state solution. Here's an alternative that no one has proposed, which will end the bloodshed and produce positive change for both sides, and for the world.
Series: Middle East Articles (8 Articles, 15301 views)
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, December 11, 2009
Clearing the Air: Support the Carbon Tax Bill HR 1337, not Cap and Trade Bill 2454 Cap and Trade is Cap and Steal for the same Banksters that ripped us off in Subprime. Now they have an even bigger scheme, one that's both unenforceable and won't do a thing to lessen carbon pollution (even if that was the only reason for Climate Change).
Bush Master, From ImagesAttr
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, December 21, 2012
Summarizing the arguments against excessive gun ownership There have been so many great articles (many on Op Ed News) on the absurdity of our gun situation in America that I'll just repeat the highlights here. Feel free to use these against any remaining gun nuts you encounter.
(11 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, February 24, 2010
We CAN have it all We CAN balance the budget, put people back to work, have a green 21st century economy, eliminate almost all poverty and vast wealth inequity, and grow at a 5% non-inflationary rate per year. A macroperspective set of solutions.
From ImagesAttr
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, December 31, 2009
High CEO Pay = Low Company Performance Looking for a good company to invest in? Look for one where the CEO makes LESS than average.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Single Tax, True Remedy to Inequity to Boom/Bust Cycle The answer to the 18-year cycle of economic booms and busts for the last 1,000 years was discovered in the 19th century. Now is the time to finally enact it everywhere.
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 12, 2012
North Dakota considers eliminating property tax North Dakota tries to bankrupt itself, once the oil & gas runs out. This is even worse than California-destroying proposition 13.
Bill Still, From ImagesAttr
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, August 18, 2013
Still Report #90 - Iceland: No EU - YouTube Video Icelandic Parliment member Jón Þór -"lafsson reveals that the new government is in no mood to continue with membership in the European Union. This is a huge blow to the EU who is trying to ensnare the unsuspecting citizens of Turkey as well, into EU membership.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views)
Alanna Hartzok for Congress in PA's 9th, From ImagesAttr
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, October 25, 2014
PA Congressional Candidate Alanna Hartzok stages Modern Day Paul Revere tour for Airplane Safety The following articles are about the Hartzok for Congress Press Conferences held in four locations (10/14/14) on the "Paul Revere Ride" throughout PA Congressional District 9 to alert citizens of the failure of Congressman Bill Shuster to bring forward for a House vote the crucially important Saracini Aviation Safety Act.
Series: Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187032 views)
From ImagesAttr
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Will November 2 turn out record numbers of Election Frauds? What will decide the elections this Fall, voters or hackers? The opportunity for election fraud has never been so great as in this all-electronic voting season.
Existing oil pipeline is robust and over-capacity already, From ImagesAttr
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, November 7, 2015
The rejection of the Keystone Pipeline: Why Now? Next Big Future: "In 2015 US denies oil market access to its ally Canada but grants access to Iran." Why now?
No war on Syria, From FlickrPhotos
(32 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, April 9, 2018
Open Thread: Trump contemplates attacking Syria...again Trump is careening into a wider war with Syria, and maybe Russia as well. Is this the end for all of us?
From ImagesAttr
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, October 7, 2011
Update from OTHER occupation sites OWS isn't just confined to Wall Street, or even just to the U.S. Local and global updates herein show a movement that's vibrant, growing, coalescing around common goals, and a threat to the power system.
Henry George, From ImagesAttr
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Have Conditions in the Laboring Class improved from Henry George's Time to our Own? Labor conditions were indeed often appalling in the nineteenth century, but are they any better now? Let's start with a specific example and broaden our findings from there. A comparison of Labor's life from a hundred years ago to today. Have things improved...or been offshored?
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 114838 views)
From ImagesAttr
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, January 2, 2010
The Center of America IS Progressive The majority of votes come from the Center of America. We're just too afraid to show it and the Corporatist Politicians are too cowed to provide it.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Let the Empire State Finance its own budget Gap! Don't trust our leaders in Albany. They either don't know what is going on, or don't want us to know. There IS money. The state is NOT broke. We do NOT have to cut draconian cuts. And all of this even before we talk about reforms like the Single Tax on Land Values and untaxing production....
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 298970 views), Public Banking (36 Articles, 154548 views)
Cannabis / Marijuana has been around for 1000s of years. It is now being promoted and legalized like never before in America., From FlickrPhotos
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, January 6, 2023
Cannabis Dreams going up in Smoke The following are my personal observations over the course of a year or two as cannabis has been gradually legalized, from small usage to quasi-legal pot shops to the first legal weed shop last December. There are many, many articles, studies and continual followup on what's happening both in New York City and nationwide, but these are my observations.
From ImagesAttr
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Indignados ignite! A friend of mine in the indignatos movement sent these new videos to me. The Indignados movement in Spain dates from the European summer of 2011. Things aren't just simmering in Spain, they are boiling over. Warning: graphic, violent videos.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, October 9, 2020
If elected, Biden should appoint a temporary 10th Justice to the Supreme Court Future president Biden should pack the supreme court, but do it temporarily. It is right, not just because of balance, but to right an injustice resulting from republican led from 2016.
From ImagesAttr
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, August 24, 2009
Senator Gillibrand's Position on Health Care for all Today, I received this email form my Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, of New York. The Senator is pushing for a Medicare type insurance for all, mirroring what a lot of Progressives, including those here on OEN, are asking for (see my article: How to fix Scarecare). Those of you who believe this is the solution, should sign her petition.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, December 8, 2011
The Occupy Theme Song? This is getting over a quarter million hits and sums up the Occupy Movement nicely in a 6 minute song: We Are The Many Lyrics and Music by Makana Makana Music LLC - 2011
TPP Leesburg Rally, From FlickrPhotos
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, November 13, 2015
This is the kind of anti-consumer legislation to expect under TPP A concrete example of what we will lose if TPP passes, and what we are already losing under similar but weaker deals and the WTO, with comments by Senator Schumer.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, November 11, 2011
Occupy Portland's Statement of Solidarity Thursday morning Mayor Sam Adams announced that he was issuing an eviction notice for Occupy Portland , effective at 12:01 AM Sunday . While our Mayor has been largely supportive of our protest and our rights to free speech, the business interests and other associated lobbying groups were able to exert enough sustained political pressure to create our coming stand-off with the city. We have about 600 occupiers...
Neighborhood Energy network - a NYC based eco-Activist group, From ImagesAttr
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, June 20, 2013
A Climate Change Compendium I am on the mailing list for the Neighborhood Energy Network, based in New York City. They regularly send out updates, presentation and movie announcements, and activist opportunities, to a large mailing list. This one, their latest, lists many useful sites on Climate Change, including how to deal with deniers. It is presented here as an aid for those who want to be better informed and to answer critics.
From ImagesAttr
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, May 17, 2010
Response to Thomas Friedman's column: a Linked World Today, I wrote the following in response to Thomas Friedman's column, "A Question From Lydia." I'm not so naive as to think I will get a personal response form one of the most popular leading columnists of the New York Times, but if you agree with what I say, you can forward it, or something like it, to Friedman yourself. Who knows, maybe the power of numbers will tilt his thinking just enough...
(14 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, January 8, 2009
Redrawing the Lines in the Sand: a new Approach to solving the Israel-Palestinian conflict Old measures won't stop the Gaza-Israel violence. Here's a new approach for the open-minded.
San Diego woman Ashli Babbitt shot and killed inside US Capitol, From YouTubeVideos
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, January 14, 2021
Revolution: It CAN Happen Here Here's why insurrection can happen here too, and it's instructive to read about the pre-Civil War era. Next week is going to be very trying for the country, and it may not end there.
(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, January 29, 2009
Where the Next 2 Trillion is Going to Open your wallets and purses - the bankers need another 1-2 trillion. There's no time to waste; Obama could propose this as early as next week to prop up the insolvent banking system.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, October 16, 2009
How now, DOW? The true meaning of DOW 10,000 - again. The DOW hovering around 10,000 again is nothing to get excited about - unlike 10 1/2 years ago. Here's a realistic look at what's changed, mostly for the worse.
International stances on South Africa v. Israel lawsuit.svg., From WikimediaPhotos
(15 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, January 26, 2024
David Swanson's lopsided screed today about ICJ Report on Israel-Gaza The ruling against Israel from the ICJ, though at least stopping short of calling for unilateral surrender by Israel, is both unjust and outrageous. The only thing worse is so-called progressive support for it.
Series: Israel/Palestine (2 Articles, 2058 views), Middle East Articles (8 Articles, 15301 views)
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, February 5, 2009
High pay equals low performance Not only are CEOs overpaid, they actually perform WORSE for their companies than more moderately paid CEOs. Read the studies and don't let the Right-wing ideologues convince you they can't get talent for less. What they can't get is short-term thinkers who run their companies into the ground.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, June 28, 2009
Senator Gillibrand's position on Healthcare for all Senator Gillibrand's position on Healthcare for all, expressed in an email to me and other supporters of Single Payer healthcare.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, August 10, 2009
Live Global Oil Consumption/CO2 Emissions Clocks From looking at the price of oil, you might think consumption varies all over the place. It doesn't. Eliminate the speculators from the picture with these consistent Oil and CO2 clocks.
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, June 27, 2009
Close the Greenway Gap in East Side Manhattan Nine Bicyclists have been killed in East Midtown from 1995-2007 and hundreds injured. Every day, hundreds of bikers have to use heavily congested First and Second Avenues in competition with trucks, buses, taxis, cars, road construction, 3 major exits/entrances to the FDR, hills, and even other bikers, when just a couple of blocks to the east sits the unfinished Greenway that serves as a highway for bikers around Manhattan.
Mitch McConnell, Filibuster King, From CreativeCommonsPhoto
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, February 28, 2021
If we can't end the filibuster, at least modify it. The fate of the world might depend on it. There's no time to lose. The filibuster essentially erases the narrow margin of control Democrats have over the senate. Bias in the senate towards the red states, gerrymandering and vote suppression will see to it they never get another chance, unless the Democrats can deliver something to the working people of the country, not in 4 years, but in less than two.
Series: Covid (16 Articles, 30549 views)
From ImagesAttr
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, February 13, 2009
Ending the War in Afghanistan on Our Own Terms (Updated) We should NOT be trying to lead Afghanistan out of its mess by military means. Afghanistan is unconquerable, as everyone from Alexander The Great to the ex-Soviet Union has discovered. In part this is because there is no real country to begin with. Here is a way to build Afghanistan from the ground up, and oust the Taliban for good.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, May 16, 2009
The Myth of Personal Frugality Why personal frugality is just a smokescreen to coverup the real economic crisis - the problem - the REAL solution, granted by the Constitution and practiced by Lincoln.
Julian Assange, From FlickrPhotos
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, January 11, 2021
Assange extradition denied but appealed in waning days of Trump Administration The following came to me as part of a subscribed series of updates from JournalistsSpeakUpForAssange - a group of journalists following and providing updates on Julian Assange's case proceedings. Assange continues to be one of the world's most prominent and persecuted political prisoners.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, November 3, 2009
A Progressive in Florida is running TODAY A progressive is running in Florida
From ImagesAttr
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, November 2, 2009
My Personal Offer to the Financial Robbers: Prepaid Banishment I will personally pay for a one-way flight to anywhere in the world for anyone who made at least $100 million in the financial industry last year - first come, first serve - IF they will will sign an agreement promising never to return to America, or to work for an American headquartered company, ever again. I will even pay First Class, because you know, such Titans can't be expected to fly in a manner they aren't accustomed
Climate Change is not the only problem., From CreativeCommonsPhoto
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, February 21, 2024
All Climate Change Solutions will fail. Here's what will work. Climate change solutions won't mitigate the damage from flooding, wildfires, and storms. Mitigation will.
From ImagesAttr
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, June 4, 2011
Defend The Clean Air Act The Clean Air Act and EPA's enforcement of it, are under attack like never before. Please stand with environmentally conscious groups like: The Alaska Wilderness League, Center for Biological Diversity, Earthjustice, Earthworks, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, The Wilderness Society, and Common Ground-USA AGAINST amendments on otherwise unrelated bills that would weaken the Clean Air Act.
From ImagesAttr
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, November 19, 2012
Take Action: TradeJustice New York Metro meeting to ban Fracking and the TPP this Tuesday The last meeting of TradeJustice was attended by over 100 people. This is THE critical trade, environmental, labor and human rights issue of our time. If TPP passes, it matters not what laws we pass locally and even nationally. They can all be over-turned by an extra-judicial court operated by, for, and of the corporation. This is ALREADY HAPPENING under NAFTA, and the TPP has been described as "NAFTA on Steroids."
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, November 4, 2008
How voting ought to be: My 15 minute non-ordeal How to make voting simple, fast and efficient. Hint: it doesn't take computers or gobs of money.
Boston Marathon, From ImagesAttr
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, May 2, 2013
Terrorist Arrests, Up 3. Wacko count, Up 3 Guns and bombs vs. people. The latest scores.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, June 18, 2009
Obama's Financial Reforms are Tepid, At Best Why Obama's financial reforms won't work; they don't go far enough to solve the financial mess. The true solutions and doubts about the Administration's resolve to effect them.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, July 4, 2009
Petition to Help the Terminator save California To balance its budget, fund its obligations and keep from having to raise taxes, California should follow the model of North Dakota and Charter its own state bank. Sign the Petition to Save California!
From ImagesAttr
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, March 12, 2010
Ending the War in Afghanistan on Our Own Terms (Updated) I published this article nearly two years ago, then republished it again February 13, 2009. Tragically, things have only gotten worse, and my hopeful addendum paragraph now seems woefully naive.
(11 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, February 7, 2009
Even Dick can be right once in a while Dick Cheney may be right about the next attack, but not for the reasons he thinks. Why peace may mean more violence.
(11 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 6, 2009
Comprehensive Health Care for Every American is possible without Raising Costs It is possible to create a reformed health care system that is better, covers everyone, and doesn't cost more. Here's the step-by-step way, in broad strokes.
From ImagesAttr
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 9, 2012
Countering the reactionary Right on the Radio I was interviewed on WGDR radio this morning (use the drop-downs to select 7/9/12 from 9:00-10:00AM) on Georgism, State Banking, Greenbacking, etc., based on a rebuttal I did to a Daily Bell article advocating none of the above - it's as if they picked out everything I love! We even got to talk about how human psychology prevents us from seeing solutions even when they are presented.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, July 9, 2009
Senator Gillibrand moves forward on White-Nose Syndrome in Bats A previously undescribed, cold-loving fungus has been linked to white-nose syndrome, a condition associated with the deaths of over 100,000 hibernating bats in the northeastern United States. "Bats are also critically important pollinators. Without immediate action, several bat species within the United States may face extinction" - Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
We Say This Peacefully, From ImagesAttr
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, August 17, 2013
It is not a coup, It is the will of Egyptian people - YouTube This is a video that was posted to the Library of Congress page, so hey, NSA, it's our own government hosting this! Anyway, I'm not sure who ultimately produced this. It's called OxygenEgypt2013, and this is their homepage on youtube, which has 1,1165 subscribers, but is mostly written in Arabic (does anyone read Arabic?).
Series: Middle East Articles (8 Articles, 15301 views)
TradeJustice New york, From ImagesAttr
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, August 18, 2013
NYC supporters of TradeJustice events this week - TPP lobby training & training TradeJustice events this week - TPP lobby training & training for trainers, national briefing, etc.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Selecting the Auto Companies to assist Not all of the big three car companies should be treated the same when it comes to loans.

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