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(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 25, 2015 The "Fed" Independence Scam - The Latest Excuse
It has become a mantra, a mindless pledge of allegiance to the oligarchy, to the filthy rich and powerful banking families that own our country, our world, and our lives.
(9 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 19, 2015 Take Jesus Down From The Cross - On A Morbid Christianity
He's been hanging for two thousand years already. Its time to take Jesus down from the cross, put him in a chair or a chaise lounge in a nice relaxed position, give him some decent clothes, put a smile on his face, and pretend he's happy. Isn't that the way you would want to be presented after your death?
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 5, 2014 NO FAIRNESS DOCTRINE WON THE ELECTION - On The Incredible Right Wing Media Advantage --
Wonder where the Tea-party came from? Mystified by the incredible vituperation and hatred against president Obama in the last election? Wonder why President Bush got a pass on his crimes and blunders over the eight years of his ruinous presidency? Look no further than the Fox propaganda and right-wing media juggernaut" courtesy of the lack of a Fairness Doctrine in media today.
With talk radio about 97 per cent conservatives
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 18, 2014 Muslim Society Needs A Lysistrata
War and sectarian violence seems to be the only outlet. It seems clear these legions of unsatisfied men are like (pardon the term) loaded weapons. Just ask the ladies. In short, they need to be dis-armed, so to speak.
Enter Women... and the sex-strike method.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 29, 2014 Money-As-Speech = Legislation-As-Corruption
With money-as-speech everyone becomes bought off or afraid-for-their-jobs wage slaves of the oligarchy. Freedom and independence have thus degenerated into fear and dependence - the base hallmarks of a police state society.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 20, 2014 Money-As-Speech, Speech-As-Lies, Truth-As-Victim
A Los Angeles Times editorial today states "Lying is free speech too." Free? For Whom? How much do lies cost us, individually and collectively? Who benefits from speech-as-lies? Cui bono?
The answer, given money-as-speech, is now plain. Money-as-lies will overwhelm us with falsehoods, pervert the political process, and destroy the more honorable candidate. Who will enter this ugly fray?
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 5, 2014 Crimea Sanctions... But Nothing For What China Did In Tibet
The west is engaging in heavy sanctions against Russia for Crimea, a country whose own people decided to be a part of Russia, versus no similar response from western nations for the invasion of Tibet -- a spiritual treasure -- where the future Dalia Lama was kidnapped and disappeared -- a non-event in the western media -- and surely a sacrilege equal to kidnapping the Pope.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 21, 2014 Limits To Wealth
A timely excerpt from my website LimitstoWealth.com
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 8, 2013 Book Review -- The Public Bank Solution, by Ellen Brown -- A Must Read!
Some books are truly seminal, timely, and a must read. This great new work by Ellen Brown is definitely in that category. The banking question is surely the biggest issues of our time, and of the ages. That is why everyone should read this book, and especially our representatives who will be called upon to lead us out of the monetary prison in which we find ourselves. I encourage you to buy a copy and become informed.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, June 7, 2013 Citizens v. United Requires A Fairness doctrine
Capital now controls our central bank, major media, campaign finance and election processes. In effect, the vast majority now lack control over their own society, economy, and republic. We, the people, do not set the agenda. Instead, a small, powerful and ultra-rich minority does due to our relative impotence. There is simply no way labor - the wage-earning majority - can match the power of capital. Media Reform is needed.
(7 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 5, 2013 World's Biggest Entitlement -- A Private Central Bank Issues Our Money And Charges Us Interest
The private central bank scam is the clearly the biggest entitlement scheme in the history of civilization. A secretive mafia-style cartel owns and controls what is a monopoly money printing press - creating "our" money out of thin air and charging us interest for the privilege. Its welfare for bankers, endless debt for the people.
(8 comments) SHARE Monday, December 10, 2012 Debt-Money Is THE Fiscal Cliff
A nation, and a world, that must pay interest to a private cartel to create its own money is not only under some monetary voodoo but is destined for bankruptcy and worse. Interest upon interest until the burden means inevitable and ruinous austerity, bankruptcy, ruin of democracy, and revolution.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 25, 2012 How's That Government Vagina Workin' For Ya?
The thought of women terminating a pregnancy, and expelling a zygote, drives some people crazy. So crazy in fact they want to own every women's body and deny them the right to control their own reproduction and family size. These same zealots also believe in a male sky god who, apparently, tells them that this "moral" tyranny is the way to go.
Well, let me say once again, Get Your Goddamn Religion Outta My State!
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 1, 2012 Limits To Wealth - Economics As If Gross Disparity Mattered
Debates over limiting wealth and power arise wherever enclosure, oligarchy and factor imbalance create great disparities in wages, venture shares, land ownerships, and societal power. Wage-laboring majorities exploited by capital are left without natural freedom or the effective democracy necessary to secure greater equity, and a political means to peacefully "reshuffle" the deck...
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 28, 2012 Money As Speech Is Not A Democratic Doctrine, It Is Class Slavery
Freedom is Slavery, Slavery is freedom. This is the real definition of the money as speech doctrine, a corrupt plutocratic dogma of "freedom" put upon us by the all-empowering act of but one Supreme Court justice in a 5-4 decision.
This Money Uber Alles doctrine is nothing less than an old imperial notion of societal shackling and keeping the masses in check. It is nothing less than protectionism for oligarchy.
(26 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 7, 2012 Get Your Goddamn Religion Outta My State
All right, I've had about all I can take! This religion thing is getting out of hand, and none of these dangerous fools threatening our very existence ever met an enlightened being, which makes them doubly dangerous for not having experienced the elixir of realization.
Religion? Its all about belief, mind games. All those overdressed bishops and sh*t spouting their only son of god, and god's chosen people, crap. It's
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, January 27, 2012 Enclosure -- Understanding Capitalism And "Free Markets"
EnclosureUSA.com presents a small portion of the text taken from my book Cap-Com, The Economics Of Balance, 1995 -- Reviewing the historical phenomenon of enclosure is essential to understanding the nature of our latter-day "free market" capitalism with its gross and growing imbalance of power between capital and labor, and the socio-economic impotence of the vast wage-laboring majority.
(9 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 24, 2011 Congress Conspires With "Fed" Banksters To Create Endless Interest-Bearing Debt
Even as we get closer to complete economic chaos and bankruptcy induced by a corrupt system of debt-money, we still hear those in congress repeating the catechism of Fed "independence." In effect, they have pledged to maintain the independence of the privately owned "Fed" -- exactly what the great banking historian, Murray Rothbard, called "an absolute self-perpetuating oligarchy."
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 11, 2011 Trade War? We Already Had A Free Trade War And China Won
The free traders have devastated the first world economies and rewarded the greater slave and totalitarian capitalist powers over once more free, democratic, and independent nations. So-called "free trade" has been a disaster for human rights, democracy, the environment, domestic production and independence and national sovereignty. Its been a big win for global corporate fascism and the top one per cent...
SHARE Tuesday, October 4, 2011 The Iron Heel of Jack-Boot Fascism - A Jack London Perspective
The fascist capitalist class is indeed seriously threatened today, and justifiably so. A well-deserved worldwide uprising against the debt-money banksters and their criminal enterprise is now on-going, and only the resolution of the "economic question" remains in doubt at this juncture.
We, the people, have been here before in this classic struggle between labor and capital, between democracy and corporate fascism, an
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 22, 2011 All fall down -- The Idiocy of Globalization and Ruin by Interdependency
A forced, undemocratic "free trade" scheme promoting globalization of markets, cultures, and economies, is a disaster. It's a disaster for freedom and balance, the most important of values and economic states. What we have today is a lock-step "interdependency" ruin and forced austerity generating global depression, as opposed to nations freely being in different stages of development and progress or recession.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 21, 2011 Max Comfort Hits The Campaign Trail -- The Big Dressing Down
An article in the Wall Street Journal -- Candidates Figure What Voters Need From Them Is A Good Dressing Down -- gives us hope today for the end of sartorial madness and the tired old suit and tie routine. When politicians begin to break free of their suits of armor you know change is in the wind.
Of course, Max Comfort, has known this for some time. He is the author of FreeDress For Success -- A Businessman's Guide T
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, September 19, 2011 Declasse Warfare -- Whose Class Are You On?
Class warfare -- whose class are you on? Nobless oblige has gone to hell. What we have today is a ruthless ruling class setting up their global corporate gulag, profiting from endless wars and creating the gretest enclosure and surveillance state. This is the greatest advance of ruling class fascism since Hitler and mussolini. So that's your ruling class, and they are absolutely without any real class.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 15, 2011 Corporate Media Truman World -- Potemkin Wall Hides Issues of 9-11 And Debt-Money Tyranny
No greater proof of the Potemkin village media information cage we are forced to occupy exists then the absence of any real discussion of the 9-11 neo-con coup d'etat and the seminal issue of private central bank debt-money -- i.e., a privatized money monopoly crisis now reaching the point of insuring our bankruptcy and rape of our national assets by the banksters as we now see happening around the world.
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 10, 2011 9-11 whistleblower Susan Lindauer's case confirms we live in Gulag Amerika
"I get asked all the time why Washington allowed the 9-11 attack to happen, because that's what they did. They allowed it to happen, 9-11 was the outcome of a shadow policy of "deliberate avoidance.' Senior officials got warned over and over what was coming by numerous highly knowledgeable sources... In the aftermath, it's obvious that 9-11 provided the vehicle for war with Iraq. Everyone can see that."
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, September 9, 2011 FREE TRADE DEFEATS ALL STIMULUS
No matter how much debt-money we throw at the problems caused by free trade and debt-money, the problem continues to worsen because we have further to fall, and we are being forced to fall further due to the undemocratic banking and trade regimes we suffer under. For some perspective on "free trade" I include a portion of my chapter on Growthism and Free Trade from CAP-Com, The Economics Of Balance, written in 1995
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, August 29, 2011 Book Review -- No More National Debt, by Bill Still
Having studied the banking question and history in depth and also put up a web site to educate people on this question -- PublicCentralBank.com -- there are a number of books on this seminal subject worthy of our attention.
A recent addition to the list of must read books on banking is Bill Still's No More National Debt. Still is also the producer of the excellent and acclaimed documentary, The Secret of Oz.
SHARE Thursday, August 25, 2011 TREASURY DIRECT HOME LOANS - FIRE THE FED - update
Recently, Bill Gross, who runs the world's biggest bond fund, said the U.S. should consider "full nationalization' of the mortgage-finance system. Clearly more people are realizing the predatory idiocy of "our" housing finance system cannot go on if we are to have a stable and fair consumer-based economy.
(8 comments) SHARE Monday, July 25, 2011 TAKE BACK THE FED, PAY OFF THE NATIONAL DEBT
We can achieve this glorious and salutary condition by taking back the monetary powers stolen from us in 1913. We can pay off the debt and be free of debt-money interest tyranny and the extortion and on-going theft of our public assets by big bank bond dealers who enjoy the exclusive, private, privilege to create "our" money and credit.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, June 24, 2011 Book Review - Thom Hartmann, Unequal Protection
Another seminal book of late, along with Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine and Ellen Brown's Web Of Debt among others, is Thom Hartmann's new second edition of Unequal Protection -- How Corporations Became People And How You Can Fight Back. It is books of this caliber and moment, this one from a well-known progressive radio host, that let us know our real social and sorry economic condition, and what we must do to escape...
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 21, 2011 Ego Carbon -- Fossil Fuel Egotists Help Ruin the Planet
What is it with the nouveau rich and their must-have private planes and enormous SUV's? These too-big-to-exist conveyances maximize an individual's contribution to pollution and climate change. We, the little people, must eat their exhaust as they fly overhead in their private plane ego machines, and disembark into their eight mile per gallon limousines.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 16, 2011 "The City" Of London - Citadel of the Bankster Mafia
Few know today that the "City" of London refers not simply to the greater city of london but instead to a banker's feifdom, a veritable Vatican of money and sovereign citadel of the banksters that rule our world. uch like the fact that many in the USA still do not know that their own "Federal" Reserve is a privately owned central bank, so too the people of Great Britain and the world are largely unaware...
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 4, 2011 "Living beyond our means" -- What means? The Banksters Own Our Means.
We hear the politicians pontificate and moan today about living beyond our means, and then go on about necessary austerity and cutting valuable programs and services and infrastructure development, and reducing our wages and standard of living, etc. What means? The reason for this calamity is that we don't own the means. We are imprisoned by a private banking cartel who own the means to create money and credit.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 2, 2011 REPARATIONS FOR FREE TRADE HARM AND ECONOMIC RUIN
When your own government screws you, and forces you to compete with neo-slaves in undemocratic countries with little or no regulation or environmental standards, leading to multiple personal, social, economic and environmental injuries, then I suggest the perpetrators of these dismal schemes owe you. The damages are clearly in evidence today and measurable in jobs lost, wages and benefits reduced or eliminated, homes lost,etc
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 21, 2011 The Believer Machine - CIA Can Use HAARP On Rapture Days
So you want to control humanity. or at least the very sizeable gullible portion? I can't imagine any better way than for the ruling elite's covert and nasty "intelligence" apparatus to use their disaster producing HAARP machine to produce some earthquakes and tsunamis on the days (and there will be more) predicted by the I-know-what-God-is-planning crowd.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, April 29, 2011 Ayn Rand, The Cold Witch Of Economics
I read Ayn Rand's tomes as a young, leaning-to-libertarianism, man in college. At first glance her freedom tirades appeared great, and I remain with them on the social issues. But in economics.. freedom for what?
It was not long before I realized, and world events proved, that libertarians like Rand are simply footmen for the oligarchy. Their freedom spiel paves the way for fascism and plutocracy.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 13, 2011 DEFICITS ONLY MATTER WHEN ITS DEBT MONEY
Dick Cheney and the Reagan advisors were only half right. Deficits do not matter if there is no interest put upon our money and credit creation to run our society, government, and economy. The real burden is the interest we are currently forced to pay for every dollar created in the form of interest bearing bonds. Eliminate the debt-money interest penalty to private bankers and you have investment and capital injections in
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, March 21, 2011 THE LEGAL TENDER EXCEPTION - How The Bankers Screwed Lincoln's Greenbacks
One of the most important facts he relates is how Abraham Lincoln's attempt to avoid paying thirty percent interest to the Rothschild bankers - (to fund a war to keep the union together) was via the issue of non-interest-bearing "Greenback" notes by the Treasury.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 15, 2011 The Ultimate Tragedy, We Have To Borrow, At Interest, From Our Private Central Bank To Pay For Natural Disasters
Aside from the loss of life, the most despicable thing about the trauma of recurring natural disasters is that we are forced to borrow from a private central bank, at interest, to pay for all the largely uninsured reconstruction costs. On its face, profiting from Mother Nature's wrath in the midst of the wipe out of entire cities and families is surely the mother of all unjust enrichments and bankrupting strategies.
SHARE Sunday, February 27, 2011 TREASURY DIRECT HOME LOANS - FIRE THE FED
With our home loans there is no reason why we, the people, exercising the very purse power of our Constitution, cannot get home loans direct from our own Treasury. In doing so we can agree to establish stable low or no-interest home loan programs. In this way we provide stable, unchanging, and reasonable mortgage vehicles not subject to the predations and disruptions of the private market.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 4, 2010 Don't Bend, Don't Blow - The Military's Real Gay Policy
It is obvious that the real meaning of Don't Ask, Don't Tell is more like Don't Bend, Don't Blow --" i.e., the real meaning of what might be rules for military shower and bunk bed areas.
Since the military specializes in English language quackery and bizarre statements, there was a need not to state the obvious here in this DADT problem and horrifying situation of gays in the military. So we could hide it for a
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 28, 2010 ON THE ROAD TO TRILLION DOLLAR INTEREST PAYMENTS
We're on the road to paying a trillion dollars every year in interest alone by 2020 on the debt-money we are forced to borrow from a private banking cartel know as the "Federal Reserve." This amount alone in the budget will eliminate all domestic priorities. At that point we will have been completely robbed of our freedom and prosperity and crushed by banker imperatives ruling our lives.
SHARE Tuesday, November 23, 2010 THE CASE FOR A ONE-TERM PRESIDENCY - Eliminating The Evils Of Re-Election
Nearly twenty-five years ago, while writing The Case for a One Term Presidency, I never expected to see such a perfect scenario to illustrate the need for this reform as the last election - in which the leader of the Republican party, Mitch McConnell, made it clear that the complete and total object of their endeavours is to deny President Obama a second term. So, forget the people and the issues.
SHARE Sunday, November 21, 2010 NO FAIRNESS DOCTRINE WON THE ELECTION - On The Incredible Right Wing Media Advantage -
With talk radio about 97 per cent conservatives and Fox News the only TV channel many people on a limited income get on their basic cable setup --" the media die is cast" into a slick corporate fascist edifice. Add to this right-wing media machine the 5500 Christian broadcasters from radio and television - who reach an estimated 141 million listeners - all preaching the same Fox news Republican party line.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 28, 2010 THE COMMITTEE TO SAY BAD THINGS - How I Plan To Profit From Made-Up Stuff About Candidates -
With all the money sloshing around thanks to the Supreme Court, I figured I'd make some money by starting a campaign organization - The Committee To Say Bad things. It is now available for any kind of for-profit slander and calumny. This effort would put me squarely within the field of bogus secret committees spewing their anonymous venom all over our glorious corporate media - who, thanks again to the Supreme Cour
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 20, 2010 DONT VOTE FOR ANYONE WHO SUPPORTS THE "INDEPENDENT" FED SCAM
Don't vote for anyone who supports the "independent" fed scam... It is completely contrary to the "purse power" intent of the founders. A private central bank with its monopoly control of money and credit creation represents nothing less than endless bankster predation and the ruin and enslavement - by debt money - of our country and world.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, October 8, 2010 SINGLE LENDER HOME LOANS - Treasury Direct, No Debt-Money Home Loans
The utter failure of the home loan lending system and securitization scam is now readily apparent. The remedy is to take the entire home loan business out of the hands of Wall Street and place it in the hands of our Treasury department -" thus enabling direct funding of home loans to local banks with no-debt money created by and for the people to fund their most important asset.
SHARE Wednesday, October 6, 2010 RUSH TO GOLD RESULT OF STUPID "FREE" TRADE SCHEME
The result of people rushing today to invest in metals and resources is due to a "beggar-thy-neighbor" ever-cheaper currency policy due to the absence of free tariff policy. In addition to this scheme being nuts, we now screw up the earth with more mining and chewing up our environments due to the money fleeing currencies and investing in holes in the ground instead of building real economies meeting domestic needs first.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 3, 2010 THE RETURN OF BLASPHEMY - ON HATE CRIME IDIOCY
Remind me, is this the twenty-first century or the tenth? Its hard to believe but in "civilized" countries today you may now be jailed for having an opinion about the nature of religion, reality, historical events or indeed any of the amazing milleniums-old stuff that still rattles around in people's minds today. You're safe, however, if you believe six impossible things before breakfast" and act on them.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, August 23, 2010 LINCOLN'S MONETARY POLICY - FREE THE DEBT SLAVES
Today we have reached another point in history where the debt-slavery to our privately owned "Fed" has led to a yearly interest expense of nearly 500 billions dollars on our ballooning debt, largely generated by capital's disastrous "free trade" policy and the up and down manipulations of both interest rates and stock markets by the owners of private central banks.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, July 5, 2010 The Consumer Economy Scam & "New Democrat" Fraud
The "consumer economy" referenced by virtually all establishment economists and corporate media today is a fraud. It is a nomenclature required as a result of a forced "free trade" scheme serving to largely destroy our manufacturing base and what was a once far more independent and stable economy.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, June 4, 2010 When The Iron Drone flies in the Sky, the Bad Karma Will Move to the West - Attention America
As the old saying and prophecy went in Tibet (remember that country?) when the Iron bird flies in the sky, the Dharma will move to the West.
Well, we've had a flock of iron birds flying our skies for some time and I'm seeing very little Dharma (Buddhist body of teachings) emerge here. Given our pre-emptory wars, dismal ethics in the marketplace, political corruption, and structured, bankster-driven, depressions its no wonder.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, June 4, 2010 When The Iron Drone flies in the Sky, the Bad Karma Will Move to the West - Attention America
As the old saying and prophecy went in Tibet (remember that country?) when the Iron bird flies in the sky, the Dharma will move to the West.
Well, we've had a flock of iron birds flying our skies for some time and I'm seeing very little Dharma (Buddhist body of teachings) emerge here. Given our pre-emptory wars, dismal ethics in the marketplace, political corruption, and structured, bankster-driven, depressions its no wonder.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 5, 2010 GLOBALIZATION IS THE CONTAGION - On The Idiocy Of Interdependency
Were there no European union there would be no Greek crisis beyond Greece, Greece would have retained its currency and paid its price for budget problems in the value of its currency. But the stitching together of so many diverse countries and cultures into one unit, with one currency, has presented far more problems than it has solved and, worse, has removed national freedom, sovereignty, and democracy.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 1, 2010 ARE WE SICK OF POLITICAL COMMERCIALS YET?
With the deluge of corporate money into campaign finance already underway, we can now look forward to never-ending campaigns of endless radio and TV commercials polluting the airwaves. Trust me, we will soon be screaming for relief from this new form of Speech Terrorism. In fact, we will have to invent a new crime category - call it torture by media.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, February 26, 2010 Lousy-Faire Economics - On The Perversion of Economy, Democracy And Statehood
In economics, Laissez-Faire means allowing industry to be free of state intervention, especially restrictions in the form of tariffs and government monopolies. The phrase literally means "let it be" or "leave it alone."
Leaving economy and policy alone to the powerful and predatory has proven, once again, to be a disaster for the vast majority and society in general.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 6, 2010 Eustace Mullins - Last Writ For A Martyr
Eustace Mullins, known for his seminal book, The Secrets of The Federal Reserve, passed away at the age of eighty-seven on February 2, 2010. His passing, like his books, was completely buried in the establishment media. For all his efforts in revealing the nature of "our" banking system, he achieved the status of a non-person, a blacked-out dissident in the American Oligarchy.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 30, 2010 5-4 Fascism -" One Court, One Man, One Vote, One Tyranny
The Federalist Society's majority-bench has just proclaimed what the law should be despite 100 years of precedent against their decision, and the fact they supposedly revile "judicial activists." In addition, they say they also believe in "limited government" -" so that must explain why they just gave it away. In effect, now there is no government, only corporations and democracy is privatized out of the hands of the public.
SHARE Wednesday, January 20, 2010 INDEX OF DEMOCRATIC ECONOMIC FREEDOM
The conservative Heritage foundation and Wall Street journal released their annual Index of Economic Freedom. At the top of this year's index are Hong Kong and Singapore, two countries not exactly known for the freedom and democracy of its people... and that is my point.
What exactly does this index measure, is it freedom or corporate fascism and control by the money powers? Is it the freedom of the wage-earning?
SHARE Monday, January 18, 2010 The Cui Bono Virus
It must have come from Rome, born in empire and raised in conceit.
Whatever its origins, we are in danger today of utter destruction by a virulent virus -" identified as a cancerous self-interest run amuck. It's a malady currently without vaccine or correction, and presents a terrifying "moral hazard" attack of unprecedented proportions.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 17, 2010 NewsFlash: Beatles Brought Down The Wall, USSR Revisited
The documentary now airing on PBS - How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin -" tells the real story of Russa's old-regime collapse: "All ya need is Love"
SHARE Thursday, November 12, 2009 THE FED "INDEPENDENCE" SCAM
As we get closer to a tiny similicrum of banking reform, we hear the great chorus of sycophants repeating the catechism of Fed independence – in short, their pledge to the church of greed.
It has become a mantra, a mindless pledge of allegiance to the oligarchy, to the filthy rich and powerful banking families that own our country, our world, and our lives.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 4, 2009 Read Ellen Brown's Web Of Debt
The USA is facing a financial-monetary armageddon. Seldom has there been a time when greater understanding of our banking system is more important – particularly for elected and appointed officials responsible for representing the people in their efforts to take back their country from the grip of the bankers and Wall Street. I recommend every congressperson, senator and adminstration official read Ellen Brown's Web Of Debt
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, September 7, 2009 SUPREME COURT & CAMPAIGN FINANCE... IN A USA PLUTOCRACY
Supreme court decisions about money as "freedom" and "speech" must surely take into consideration the socio-economic context – in our case today a stone-cold oligarchy meaning private control of the Fed, corporate media ownership and editorship, and now the highest disparity of wealth ever recorded - all in all, an immense imbalance of power between labor and capital.
SHARE Saturday, September 5, 2009 Counter-Cyclical Trade Policy – An Essential Reform
What we really need today are countercyclical trade freedoms which restore tariff powers necessary to induce greater domestic balance and freedom, assure a stable currency value regime, and encourage a less polluted world.
“We†employ counter-cyclical monetary policy to smooth out business cycles, so why not counter-cyclical trade policy?
SHARE Sunday, August 30, 2009 AuditTheFed.com - Sign The Petition
Audit the Fed.com is now up and running with a petition you can sign to send a message to congress. The message is we want to know far more about “our†private, debt-money, central bank now owned by the biggest banks and those few who exercise real control over these same institutions.
These is probably no more important petition you can sign at the moment, with potentially more important and far-reaching implications
SHARE Tuesday, July 14, 2009 CONFORMING HOME LOAN AMOUNT NONSENSE
The entire home loan market is absurd and full of arbitrary loan and interest rate limits. One of the most absurd examples is the difference between conforming loan amounts for most states ($417,000) and that for Hawaiii, Alaska, Guam, and the Virgin Islands (625,500). Who comes up with this crap!
SHARE Tuesday, July 7, 2009 CONGRESS - Don't Give In To Fed "Reform"
After a long history of deceit, predation, usury, and private profiteering by the unaudited fed stock owners, to give yet more power to private banking families and their corporate front men is unconscionable. By doing so you are laying the groundwork for global fascism and monetary tyranny. By doing so you are saying, in effect, that the founding fathers were idiots.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 28, 2009 CAP AND TRADE or DISTANCE TARIFFS?
Cap and trade is overly-complicated and byzantine to say the least and, worse, easily subject to corruption and private profiteering from within a necessary public interest and mission. Its a huge mistake.
My alternative, suggested several years ago, was to enable a regime of Distance Tariffs. In short, fossil-fuel delivered products pay at the port of destination based on the miles traveled from producer to market.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 11, 2009 NATIONALIZE HOME LENDING - Treasury Direct, No Debt-Money, Home Loans -
We can make stable, three percent, fixed home loans with treasury-created funds which support, rather than undermine, a consumer-based economy. We can provide for loan payment postponements in event of job loss. We can use the interest paid back to our treasury to fund more home loans, and even pay down government debt. We can act like human beings... when we, the people, control our monetary system...
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 2, 2009 ABORTION IS NOT A SIN - THE BOOK II
Over twenty years ago I wrote Abortion Is Not A Sin – A New-Age Look At an Age-Old Problem. The effort was to give young women in particular a greater moral, philosophical and spiritual perspective on the issue of pregnancy termination. Then, as now, the country was awash not only with children having children but also with anti-abortion groups, right-to-life fanatics, and outright clinic-busting terrorists and doctor killers.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 21, 2009 The MAT Doctrine – Mutually Assured Torture
Given recent events, we are now being made fools of, and made to look like Good Germans just following orders.. without limits. This when Iran and Al-Queda reveal they would never waterboard their foreign terrorist prisoners more than 150 times. Its against their morals.
This is, of course, in response to the recent revelation that we did one of their terrorist captives 183 times, and then covered up the fact...
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 2, 2009 The Protectionists Were Right - On the Idiocy of Interdependency and Export-Driven Economies
The premise of interdependency (read dependency) is that nations locked together in trade will not go to war, etc. This naive theorum is still in vogue despite today's synchronized collapse, beggar-thy-neighbor currency pegs, competitive devaluation policies, and now the riots and revolutions arising around the world. All of this chaos is due to interdependency nonsense brought to us by unrepentant trade fascists.
(9 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 1, 2009 GENDER RECONSTITUTION AMENDMENT - Equal Representation In The Senate
To begin to dismantle patriarchy requires reform of gender-imbalanced systems and political institutions. Reform could begin by having equal numbers of men and
women in fixed-seat, senatorial, assemblies. This one change alone may prove invaluable in beginning a re-balancing of male-distorted societies and darwinian, greater-slave-driven, increasingly fascist economies.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, March 27, 2009 Supreme Court Must End Drug Law Madness – End Plant Prohibitions
Given the on-going collective cowardice and hypocrisy of politicians, however, the only way a Prohibition II is going to end is if the Supreme Court takes a case, any case, and decides that human beings have a natural right to unadultered plant substances. Consider it the eleventh right the founders forget to include in the Bill of Rights.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 21, 2009 NATIONALIZE HOME LENDING
We can make stable, three percent, fixed home loans with treasury-created funds which undergird a consumer-based economy. We can provide for loan payment postponements in event of job loss. We can use the interest paid back to our treasury to fund more home loans, and even pay down government debt. We can act like human beings... when we, the people, control our monetary system and the bedrock loans of our society
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, February 13, 2009 SUSPEND GATT-NAFTA AND REBUILD LOCAL ECONOMIES
To get out of this new depression mess now requires a rebuilding of local economies. To accomplish this task we must suspend GATT-NAFTA rules or gut them entirely - and rebuild a democratic trade regime reflecting the will of the wage-earning majorities around the world. Imagine that, a democratic trade regime where the people elect their representative! We've had enough of capital's predation over labor and democracy.
SHARE Monday, February 9, 2009 DISTANCE TARIFFS - On Fossil Fuel Trade Impacts
The amount of "goods" being shipped over great distances today – all in fossil fuel conveyances - is expanding at a rapid rate Incredibly, 90% of the world's merchandise travels across oceans.
As a result of this massive fossil-fuel driven "free" trade, serious new pollution, environmental decay, and truly dangerous climate change costs are emerging - not to mention horrendous trade and currency imbalances.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 1, 2009 FROM ENCLOSURE TO FORECLOSURE – How Today's Capitalism Ruins Society, Economy, and Environment
With so many families uprooted and on the streets today we are again witnessing the inevitable dismal end of an oligarchic capitalism – one rooted in land enclosures and the removal of people from either rural or communal independence. In today's overcrowded urban labor camps the vast majority are utterly dependent upon a wage and lacking in any "kiss my ass" fallback farm or commune providing refuge from capital's power.
(17 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 29, 2009 THE END OF PRIVATE CENTRAL BANKING
The private "Federal" Reserve and its big bank owners are the main culprits and root cause in the creation of inflation and depression via the expansion and contraction of money. The business cycle, and its magnified boom-bust periods, is largely a creature of monetary policies geared to private interests, with little or no public interest imput. Its time to take back our central bank.
SHARE Friday, November 28, 2008 PUNISH GROWTH, REWARD BALANCE
"Economic growth" consists of two elements - i.e., one part productivity increase and one part population increase. However, only productivity and technological advance may constitute real growth, whereas population expansion means a perpetual decline of our per-capita earthly space and per-capita resources. Growthism means we will continue to suffer population-driven, per-capita, takings and declines in the quality of life.
SHARE Friday, November 28, 2008 ENCLOSURE: UNDERSTANDING CAPITALISM & FACTOR IMBALANCE
A servile state exists for a dependent, landless, wage-bound and unfree labor, or any equally repressed capital, where one "factor" (i.e., capital or labor) acquires dominance in our affairs. A necessary balance, and balancing dynamic, is then diminished or destroyed. As a result we are unable to fairly mediate "our" economy and secure a just society. Real freedom and effective democracy is then replaced with fascism.
SHARE Friday, November 21, 2008 FREE TRADE DEPRESSION
The question is whether we, and "our" representatives, will stand by and watch as the First World economies, and centuries of social progress, are slowly reduced to ruin and every advantage is given to totalitarian and undemocratic powers, and their legions of exploited neo-slaves, upon whom we are now dependent. What we are seeing is the greatest transfer of wealth in history, and the ruin of trade freedom and democracy.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, November 14, 2008 IT IS A FAILURE OF THE "FREE MARKET"
The global financial criss is indeed a failure of the so-called "Free market" and we can smell the fear of the ruling elite today.
In any case, what exactly is the so-called "free market" as we know it today? Who is free in this market? Who is free-er? Where, and in whom, does real power reside in the markeplace? Linked to a wage for survival, how many days and ways of freedom does labor have versus capital?
SHARE Sunday, November 9, 2008 Public Infrastructure Bank - Rebuilding America With Interest-Free money
Congress must act to free the nation from interest-bearing debt not issued by our Treasury department, and dedicated to productive purposes – like rebuilding our sagging infrastructure. It is time for a Public Infrastructure Bank using interest-free, Treasury-created, money and loans.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 26, 2008 INTEREST-FREE LOANS FROM OUR OWN PUBLIC CENTRAL BANK
Our Congress must now get together with the lower, more democratic, houses of other countries and begin to recapture public control over money and credit creation, and begin a new Bretton Woods process. Rather than leaving the task to one brave president who may suffer assassination, it should be a simultaneous strike of democratic bodies or ruling money powers will use their currency weapons to extort any one country.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, October 6, 2008 FREE TRADE, THE FED, AND WAR DESTROY AMERICA
The financial chaos and decline of America has been driven by three forces: Free trade, the Federal Reserve, and the War in Iraq.
The combination of policies here, all deregulations geared to ruling corporate elites, has resulted in a complete and utter disaster for this once great country.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 2, 2008 WHO CONTROLS THE MONEY? – THE REAL CAUSE OF THE CRISIS
The private "Federal" Reserve and its big bank owners are the main culprits and root cause in the creation of inflation and depression via the expansion and contraction of money. The business cycle, and its magnified boom-bust periods, is largely a creature of monetary policies geared to private interests, with little or no public interest imput. Who lends, for what, at what cost, and who has a say?
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 20, 2008 PUBLIC CENTRAL BANK - FIRE THE FED
When the power to create "our" money is in private hands, and it is based on an exclusive franchise for debt-money creation and the sale of bonds at interest - as opposed to direct Treasury financing - then the entire economic and social system is set up for private profit at public expense. As history has proven, this structure is virtually guaranteed to result in endless predation, corruption, and eventual collapse.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 26, 2008 ABORTION IS NOT A SIN - THE BOOK
Today, we see again that the abortion debate and struggle never ends. We now find the Bush administration attempting to define contraception as abortion! This is yet another effort to criminalize abortion and cut off all family planning funds – at a time when the earth is drowning in overpopulation and resource scarcity.
SHARE Tuesday, June 3, 2008 OBAMA'S VP – TRY ASSASSINATION INSURANCE
What about Obama's VP? Who should he pick? Someone that the ruling elites would love to have in his place? Hardly, Obama's best protection would be to pick Ron Paul!
SHARE Monday, April 21, 2008 The Earth Commandments
Earth Commandments for an ecological and balanced economy and a new societal ethos
SHARE Thursday, April 10, 2008 Free trade... try Democratic Trade
It is now evident the NAFTA/GATT regimes (dictated by capital) have, like other stupid deregulations, generated far more costs and problems than the systems and regulations which they replaced... all at immense costs to our economy, standard of living and national security. So-called "free trade" fails the democratic test, produced as they were in secretive conclaves and foisted upon a purposely ill-informed public.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, March 28, 2008 Did You Elect Your Voting Machine?
We need to recover our paper-ballot voting systems in order to have voting integrity, honesty, believable democracy, and we need our own representatives to give us the choice in this most important matter. Democracy can only come into being and proceed from the ground up, and so derive its authority from the most basic unit of society – the city. How did your city choose its voting processes... or did they?
SHARE Thursday, March 27, 2008 Public Discourse & Private Profit – Corporate Media, Elections & Democracy
Why should the corporate media, using our airwaves, be licensed to profit from our democratic processes – much less control the flow of information and edit the content without public imput?
Indeed, we get no rent, no free airtime, no control over "our" media for democratic purposes. Why?
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 8, 2008 Public Infrastructure Bank - Rebuilding America With Interest-Free money
Congress must act to free the nation from interest-bearing debt not issued by our Treasury department, and dedicated to productive purposes – like rebuilding our sagging infrastructure. It is time for a Public Infrastructure Bank using interest-free, Treasury-created, money and loans.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 8, 2008 The "Populist" Epithet – On Smearing The Majority
Reading and hearing the ruling elite media stooges these days one comes to the conclusion that, apparently, a populist is a horrible thing to be.
Imagine, a supporter of the rights and power of the people! Good God, the cheekiness of these upstarts questioning the control of society by big business or the wisdom or our legions of corporate-money-fed beltway fascist wannabees.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 29, 2007 Jesus Uber Alles – Christianity as Fascism
We might ask here when does "faith' become fascism?
I would say that it is when you claim your prophet is the only one, the only son of God. Mind you, this is a God you've never seen or heard and one that you imagine you are somehow separated from, even though there is no such thing as discreteness in this energy-laden universe.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 16, 2007 Is Goldman Sachs President?
We can only better grasp our dire home loan situation by understanding some alternatives to the present corrupt setup. For example, if home interests rates stayed the same - as would occur with a Public Central Bank making Treasury-Direct home loans, either with no interest or very low interest - then all the profiteering and chaos that arises from the rise and fall of interest rates would not occur.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 9, 2007 Treasury Direct Home Loans - Fire the Fed
With home loans, there is no reason why we, the people, given the power by our own Constitution, cannot furnish our home loans direct from our own Treasury. By doing so we, as a people, can agree to either a no-interest or low-interest home loan program – all via stable, unchanging, reasonable mortgage vehicles not subject to the predations of the market and its manipulative "masters of the universe" bond dealers
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 24, 2007 I'm Too Busy Making A Profit To Save My Country
When and where the great majority of wage-earners no longer effectively control their country, their marketplace, or their environment then the stage is set for an utterly dismal "globalization" and a forced, not free, competition with the greater slave – all leading to the demise of the middle class around the world and the end of First World standards.
SHARE Friday, November 23, 2007 On Rebellion By The Majority And Writs Against The People
Regarding Habeas Corpus – i.e., the body of evidence - it is strange our Constitution contains the clause that habeas corpus "shall not be suspended unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it."
Invasion from an external enemy we can understand, but rebellion? Public safety? The meanings are dangerously vague, easily abused and applied to situations not warranting draconian response
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 18, 2007 Enclosure, Capitalism & The "Kiss My Ass" Farm
One of the major lacunas, or blind spots, in our education and understanding of the economic system within which we live, has to do with the history of land enclosures and its effect upon our natural freedom and the very structure of "free market" capitalism.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 11, 2007 FREE TRADE DESTROYS DOLLAR & USA
With the ruling elite's WTO-GATT-NAFTA coup d'tat the ability of the United States to adjust its economy via historic and classical tariff policy was taken away. As a consequence, without free and rational tariff adjustments (necessary and wise in a still very disparate and undemocratic world) we are left with only monetary policy to deal with trade issues – a huge mistake.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 28, 2007 The Fed's Inflation Scam, How Americans Get Screwed By "Their" Central Bank
The "Fed" and its member banks have the exclusive, private, privilege to create our debt-based money. Since interest is their profit, in the last decade or so the Fed has been creating money at 3-6 times the growth in productivity – an act both highly inflationary and irresponsible. Not only that, their money machine has been so busy lately they even stopped publishing a vital measure of their money-creation crimes.
SHARE Sunday, October 7, 2007 MEDICAL PRICES – Force Their Posting
We need a law to force the posting of medical service prices. Show me a medical provider's office or lab today where you can see what the prices of the various services and tests are?
What other business hides its prices from its customers? Where else do you buy first and learn the price later?
The invisibility of price makes competition impossible, and so makes price shopping by consumers impossible.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 3, 2007 POPULATION TAKINGS - The Costs Of Belief And Per-Capita Ruin
Every birth beyond replacement represents a per-capita "taking" of a portion of everyone else's per-capita earthly estate – i.e the per-person amount of space, land, water, and resources. The on-going rise in population today means such takings not only affect private property but all the commons, our commonwealth, as well as our economic and environmental security
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 16, 2007 NATIONALIZE THE FED – Take Back our Central Bank
As the recent meldown in mortgage finance illustrates, the banking system is indeed the principal cause of social evil and monetary chaos in the United States. The reason is that it is out of our control, and privatized for profit and predation by its owners. Thus, in order to regain control over our own economy and Constitution we need to nationalize the privately-owned "Federal" Reserve Bank.
SHARE Monday, September 10, 2007 The "Productivity" Scam - Measure Of Misfortune
Ddating from the onset of "free" trade, (read forced trade with the greater slave) the bulk of "productivity gains" touted by our totalitarian capitalists are the result of labor's outright extortion and "arbitrage." - a nice word indicating the power of employers to de-employ Americans and employ desperate, non-unionized, foreigners without rights, freedom, or protections.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 8, 2007 IMMIGRATION: TAX MEXICO, TAX THE POPE
Why should we, the legal citizens, be forced to pay these costs rather than the very countries and religious organizations which both cause and promote this massive human wave? Do we continue to do so until we run out of space, out of water, and out of peace, patience, and civility?
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 30, 2007 Forget Hillary, TradeWatch's Lori Wallach For President
Seeing Lori Wallach on Bill Moyers Journal program last night, it became clear to me that the ONE candidate the democrats should consider and draft for president is Lori Wallach. Here is a bright, articulate, lawyer who has spent the last 20 years fighting against the trade fascism imprinted on the American society by the ruling elites.
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 24, 2007 Dear Corporate Media: You Disgusting, Chicken-shit, Shills
How many times have you network media people been called whores throughout the centuries, and still not reformed? Seems you choose to remain nice little boys and girls sucking at the teat of the ruling oligarchy, afraid to upset your cushy little applecart.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 23, 2007 TIBET MURDERED BY CHINA
What has happened to Tibet in the last few decades is no less than the crime of the ages – the defeat and disappearance of a society dedicated to enlightenment and spiritual evolution at the hands of ruthless, materialist, totalitarian Chinese invaders.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 2, 2007 MEET THE BILDERBERGERS - OUR INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT
When 100 or so of the most powerful people in the world, or their surrogates, meet in secret, and black out reports of their endeavors in their own global corporate media, you can be sure they are not working in the public interest. People working in the public interest do not meet in secret, and these sessions will not be reported. The Oligarchy will not be televised
SHARE Saturday, May 26, 2007 RUPERT MURDOCH & EDITOR FREEDOM
Major media editors are not free today due to the fact they are at-will employees hired by the five or six white men who own and control the major media in this country, and now around the world. The editors of "our" major media are hired and fired without imput from viewers, readers, subscribers, legislators, or any independent board. Owners control the "weapons of mass distraction" and, we the people, are under fire.
SHARE Friday, May 25, 2007 No Fossil Fuel Political Campaigns – Stop The Polluting Politicians
In the face of melting icecaps melting, and a world in real danger from fossil-fuel pollution, we still cannot get candidates to cut their ego-driven political travels. What's wrong with these people? They talk about reform and yet they can't reform their own, fossil-fuel driven ways.
(6 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 5, 2007 Debate Questions Corporate Media Won't Ask
The Corporate-media sponsored Republican and Democratic presidential candidate debates are a well-constructed farce, designed to keep real issues from public cognizance and discusssion. After all, they own the 'weapons of Mass Distraction' and clearly intend to use them against We, The People. Any list of real, relevant and significant questions for "our" presidential candidates would include the following:
SHARE Tuesday, January 30, 2007 GROWTHISM & The Ruin Of Everywhere
Given capital's social supremacy, growth is never seen as the problem but, instead, is continually offered up as the only solution to every ill of our corrupt economies and degenerating environments. With capital's mis-measures we then progressively destroy all real wealth and avoid issues of factor parity, natural freedom, and population balance. With empty statistics, we then decline in real terms as we "grow."
SHARE Monday, January 29, 2007 Are They Arresting Protectionists Yet?
Corporate media feeds us a constant barrage of pro free trade propaganda and nonsense. The media stooges must use the word protectionist as an epithet. In their talking-point driven minds, being a protectionist is a kind of high crime.
But whose economy is it?
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 10, 2007 Laboratory Of Nations Or Fascist Globalization?
Today's forced-trade driven "globalization" process is fast breeding a global monoculture – i.e. one controlled by capital alone in a "whether we like it or not" process designed to remove the power and prerogatives of nation states, local regions, wage-laboring majorities, and defeat democracy itself.
SHARE Monday, December 18, 2006 An Inconvenient President - Our Modern Tragedy
One cannot view Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth eco-documentary without thinking what a completely different country, world, and environment we would now have if Gore had won the presidency and the election had not been stolen by Bush.
SHARE Monday, December 11, 2006 Social Security Communes
In a more rural and small town America, people often retired upon a paid-off family homestead. This meant a home without mortgage debt, room to grow a garden of healthy food, and a place where many could look forward to support from a community.
In effect, this healthy societal setup provided an almost cash-less, wage-less existence and secure retirement. For the wage-slave majority of today this is a bygone world
SHARE Friday, November 17, 2006 On Rebellion By The Majority And Writs Against The People
Our Constitution contains the clause that habeas corpus "shall not be suspended unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it."
Invasion from an external enemy we can understand, but rebellion? The meaning here is dangerously vague.
Rebellion by whom? For what? Is it a rebellion by the vast majority?
SHARE Wednesday, October 4, 2006 Population, Per-Capita Ruin, And Imperialisms of the womb
The very condition of the world today demands that we fundamentally alter our "growth" policies and incentives. We owe it to our children and all future generations to propound a real economy and balance in our lives.
SHARE Monday, September 25, 2006 Eco-Lottery For Global Warming Remediation Fund
With so much ecological devastation and climate-change effects already underway, and efforts to combat it so sporadic and underfunded, it is time we instituted an Eco-Lottery for this purpose.
SHARE Sunday, September 24, 2006 LET'S HEAR IT FOR MORAL RELATIVISM
More than simply bad manners, however, armed with unchanging beliefs absolutism becomes both cruel and dangerous - witness the Muslim terrorists, the Taliban, the Christian crusaders, the Inquisition, and thousands of years of human slaughter. In effect, all such absolutist dogmas are the root cause of inflated egos, of cruel and torturing certainty, of imperialism, genocide and war – all the very opposite of religion
SHARE Friday, July 21, 2006 EDITOR FREEDOM IN CAPITAL'S MEDIA WORLD
One way to free the press from today's mega-corporate leviathans and their profit-seeking, ruling-elite, owners is to free editors from the constraints of their at-will employments. The Editor Freedom Act is one such proposal.
SHARE Friday, May 26, 2006 The Banksters & Hurricanes Of Interest-Bearing Debt
Aside from the loss of life, the sickest thing about the Katrina-Rita hurricane events (and all natural disasters, wars and infrastructure needs) is that we are forced to borrow from a private central bank, at interest, to pay for related reconstruction costs. Profiting from Mother Nature’s wrath in the midst of the wipe out of entire cities and families is surely the mother of all unjust enrichments.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 14, 2006 Immigration & The Pope's Children
A discussion of religious dogma is missing from the debate on imigration. Yet we cannot solve the many problems generated without facing its meaning and consequences.
SHARE Friday, May 5, 2006 DRUG POGROM -
The Drug War pogrom is indeed an "organized massacre of innocent people" and an insanely expensive, cruel, and counterproductive idiocy.
SHARE Monday, March 27, 2006 Distance Tariffs On Fossil Fuel Trade Impacts
Until we transport goods without fossil-fuel impacts some form of distance tariffs are surely necessary, as well as easily calculated and applied in our containerized world. The greater the distance from producer to market, the greater the fossil-fuel tariff.
SHARE Monday, March 20, 2006 And Not A Howard Beal Among Them
as long as there is no separation of editorship from ownership the few will continue to handpick their editors, control the media currency, and shape the very debate of society.