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Rand Clifford lives in Spokane, Washington. His novels and earlier essays can be found at http://www.starchiefpress.com/

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(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, August 31, 2010
The Bull The past, present, and future of America is under the control of a small group of dominant men who are so rich and powerful they can afford nearly absolute secrecy.
(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, August 9, 2008
See No Hemp, Hear No Hemp, Speak No Hemp, Part I Is one reason hemp farming remains so locked down in America because it could be such an ally against global warming, and the elite actually want global warming to help realize their population-reduction goals?
(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, June 10, 2011
Hemp, The Great Green Hope Seventy-four years of hemp prohibition has been shameful. Americans need jobs, not more shame.
(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, August 15, 2010
Hemp, and Empire Will we ever get hemp back? Will enough Americans ever learn the truth?
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, January 9, 2009
From Reptiles to Humans: A Three Brain Odyssey Heaven, and hell, they both shimmer in the neural universe behind our eyes-in the electrochemical flower we inherited in three parts. High in the blossom sparkles transcendence of miseries humans inflict upon the entire biosphere; down in the stem lurk thorns of greater misery.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, December 13, 2009
Apathy, Conspiracy's Best Friend Apathy is deadening our sensibilities. Official confessions are furtively creeping in, eroding the mountain of deception that is the official fairy tale of 9/11. But, do the masses even care?
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, June 9, 2008
Leaders With No Conscience Perhaps civilization's core problem since the beginning has been the advantage that psychopaths (people with no conscience) have over normal people regarding ascendance within architectures of power. New technology gives us the means of identifying genetic psychopaths; will we learn, before it's too late, how to keep psychopaths from high levels of power?
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, June 26, 2011
The Day the Earth Stood Nil Could human intelligence be a lethal mutation, or is there a chance that human wisdom will catch up to human cleverness?
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(12 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, July 7, 2011
Democracy, Freedom, Peace and HEMP A premiere natural powerhouse is waiting to convert sunshine, water and carbon dioxide into solutions to our most vexing challenges.
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, December 1, 2008
End of the Road to Moronity Where do we go from Moronity? On to the New World Order...or can we kill the Fed, invigorate our economy with hemp, and work back toward commonwealth?
(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Corporate Profit Versus Life on Earth Tesla might have saved humanity from the nightmare of fossil fuel economy and global irradiation if energy corporations had not poisoned him.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, August 17, 2008
See No Hemp, Hear No Hemp, Speak No Hemp, Part II Of all the harm done by petroleum, perhaps fueling the concentration of wealth in so few hands will prove among the worst. The elite tend to psychopathically crush competition...ALL competition.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, November 10, 2008
On The Road to Moronity In the horror of the last eight years there have been no accidents. America is where it is by design.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Pathocracy; voting for a red psychopath, or a blue one The human brain is the root of all evil. New research enables us to identify the roots of psychopathy, and the potential to screen psychopaths from positions of great power.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, October 11, 2011
A Little Off the Top---Some Clear Message for Occupy Wall Street Perhaps it is time to pop the 1 percent's "no clear message" hot air balloon?
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Goodbye Blue Sky Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering has been executed for many years, the original patent (#5,003,186) dating back to 1991. Only now is the public waking up to this enormous taxpayer-funded assault on the common good. Be sure not to miss the official United States Air Force training manual for "chemtrails".
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, September 10, 2007
Osama Bin Dead In the wake of the latest phony Osama bin Laden tape, it's even clearer that in this dangerous world, our greatest peril may be gullibility of the American herd.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, October 4, 2010
Here We Go Again Have Americans become terminally gullible?
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, August 22, 2010
Energy Sacrifice Zones Will the entire life-support system of Earth become yet another energy sacrifice zone?
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, September 17, 2010
Artificial People Ending corporate "personhood" would be a gigantic step out of darkness for the common good.
(11 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, January 31, 2013
Our Only Solution to the Fed Debt Trap If the people ever learn what "the Fed" is all about...if the Fed fog ever clears, we might have a chance. But we are so short on time.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, October 17, 2011
Hemp Versus the Status Quo If hemp is our enemy, exactly whose enemy is hemp? Certainly not us 99 percent's!
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, October 1, 2007
King Hemp IV: Rope and Dope Knowledge is power. A main reason Americans have been denied for 70 years the great power of The King, cannabis hemp, is the relentless propaganda stifling their knowledge. Rule by The King has been lost to rule by hypocrisy.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, June 2, 2011
Thoughtcrime: USA Seems inevitable that questioning "official truth" will soon be a crime. In certain ways it already is.
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, December 11, 2008
Alas, Babble On To protect their profits, the corporate energy empire has long been waging a war on competition. How many clean energy innovations have they suppressed---innovations more vitally important than ever?
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, October 20, 2007
King Hemp V: Industrial Disease Farms, or factories? This final article in the King Hemp series explores how hemp could empower farmers into growing us toward a healthier future, while helping The People finally get some victories against corporations.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, October 5, 2008
Corporate Media: The Missing Headlines To the great disservice of the people, mainstream corporate media primarily serves its owners, the wealthy elite, who also own our corporate government.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, September 30, 2011
A Simple Way to Help Resurrect Hope in America America's TV habit...by age 65 the average American will have viewed 9 years of continuous screening.
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, January 31, 2015
Stairway to Tyranny We must keep from positions of power those for whom, as Henry Kissinger says: "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, September 19, 2010
Nature Cannot Be Fooled Reality must take precedence over public relations.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, January 12, 2008
The Great Ethanol Corndoggle Ethanol from corn is a political contraption more problem than solution. And it's politics keeping us from excellent energy solutions already at hand.
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Elite Underground After all the hell elite have stirred on Earth, wouldn't it be surprising if they did not have a vast, fortified elite underground?
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, February 2, 2009
Nests In Hell If there is any way Obama can directly or indirectly inspire Americans to think their way out of the New World Order trap, all the hope we've been seeing could be absolutely justified by Americans themselves being the change.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Report From Iron Mountain: Peace Would Be All Hell Peace sounds nice, but peace would negatively impact the profits of the 1% so savagely that civilization itself would be threatened. Without war, what would we do?
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Nano Credibility, and the Reigning Top News Story Osama bin Laden died in December of 2001, as reported by FOX, CNN and most other mainstream corporate media sources. So...the Top AP news story of 2011 never really happened.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, June 17, 2007
King Hemp part 1: From DEA Deadly Birdseed, Toward Power To The People Continued prohibition of hemp deprives Americans of the world's most valuable crop. Legislation introduced by Rep. Ron Paul aims at ending this most costly prohibition. The DEA remains the primary roadblock to progress regarding hemp. Will Ron Paul armed with truth prevail over the DEA armed with lies? Stay tuned....
(11 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 9, 2008
The Goodbye Republic Mainstream corporate media is the primary weapon of the predatory cabal moving us ever closer to one world fascist government and the end of the United States of America.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, January 7, 2013
Keystone XL: DilBit Through the Heartland TransCanada's Keystone XL is the ultimate Tar Baby.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, June 26, 2008
Stemmers, Part I "Lizards in sheep's clothing", a basic definition of "stemmers". The dumbing-down of Americans is producing stemmers by the millions---will this even be addressed publicly, or will "My Pet Goat" herald America's oblivion after all?
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, August 2, 2007
In Our Name If they really knew what their government has been up to around the world since WWII, Americans would be shocked. The "War On Terror" would be recognized for all its phoniness if The People realized "The Terrorists" hate us not for what we are, but for the horrors wrought by American foreign policy.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, May 24, 2007
Dr. Paul's Truth Prescriptions Congressman Ron Paul is introducing truth into the GOP Presidential Debates, and while many pundits and politicos are not happy about that, Dr. Paul's message is resonating with The People.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, June 30, 2007
King Hemp part 3: We Got Mugged---So Let's Get Hemp Back Mugging of The People by corporate elite has for 70 years denied us the world's greatest natural resource. The new bill introduced by Rep. Ron Paul presents our best chance yet of getting cannabis hemp back.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, June 25, 2007
King Hemp part 2: Battle Lines: Natural, Or Synthetic...Life, Or Death Corpratists stole hemp from The People 70 years ago, diddling Congress into the illegal Marijuana Tax Act. Today we need hemp's thousands of natural, superior products more than ever. Hemp is the ultimate resource for fighting global warming, globalization, pollution---the ultimate resource for spreading power back to The People.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Realistically, 9/11 Has acceptance of our corporate government's fairy-tale version of 9/11 doomed America to the status of "My Pet Goat"? To martial law, concentration camps, and the New World Order?
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, May 14, 2007
Only One Kind of Science Dangers of the American people's ignorance of science, and how easily we can solve the problem.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, January 17, 2013
The Incredible Debt Spider The Fed is the Crime of the Twentieth century. And when the Fed's charter was renewed in June, 2012, for another 100 years, how many Americans even noticed?
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Outside The Box: Occupy Wall Street Change we can believe in? It will only come from outside the system, outside the box.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, June 10, 2007
CorpoGov Corporate control of government has led to American fascism. Corporate profits are governments primary concern. Escalation of wars for resources make Americans vulnerable to "blowback", and all we get from the government are lies and propaganda. The greatest lies of all surround 9-11.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, September 8, 2008
The Voice of War and Oil Mainstream corporate media...will working class Americans find the wisdom and will to simply turn off the continuous propaganda, misinformation and dumbing down?
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, February 16, 2009
Captain of the Universe Real power is spoken in money. Real power always wins.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, September 28, 2008
Fundamentals Of The Economy Are Solid...Remember? A few weeks ago, official word was that fundamentals of our economy were strong. Bush is now saying that our entire economy is in danger. So which is worse, "our" financial crisis, or our leadership crisis?
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, May 10, 2007
Carbon Call A realistic view of what we can do, if there is still anything effective we can do, to mitigate global warming.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, November 10, 2011
Tar Wars A victory in the war between corporate profit and life on Earth
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, December 8, 2007
Put Option On America, Part 1 Until a genuine investigation of 9-11 reveals truth about the greatest crime in our history, the brakes will never be put on America's demise. As long as "Oh--they'd Never do That!" is more powerful than evidence, can there be any hope for American reason? Italy's former president recently braved the truth: If CorpoMedia were to mention it, how many Americans would even hear the message?
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, October 11, 2007
Mud, Fog, And Blackwater Mainstream corporate media...does their steady diet of all that they want you to believe warrant a boycott by The People? The propaganda/bullshit diet, we still have the right to shut it off.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Truth, By George And with the face of the beast exposed...if we still have time, will we ever muster the will-and especially find the leadership-to turn back toward the humane?
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, August 12, 2007
Can't Possibly Get Any Better An ultimate view of CorpoMedia reality.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, February 2, 2008
Status Quo Sideshow '08 Voters in 2006 demanded a halt to our war crimes, and got a surge in war crimes. Unmistakable demands for change likely to ring out from votes actually counted as cast in 2008 will be answered with some change of faces, but behind that the status quo is already locked in. Will Americans ever do something about it, or just keep playing rigged-election games until the Republic is a full-blown fascist dictatorship?
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Dr. Paul's Truth Prescriptions Congressman Ron Paul has shaken up American political discourse with truth. His bravery should be rewarded, but....
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, April 17, 2008
Beyond The Speed of Lies Can Americans be rallied into just saying no to mainstream corporate media's continuous wash of lies?
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, July 19, 2007
The Great American Train Wreck With Al Qaida gaining strength in newspaper headlines, and the Secretary of Homeland Security saying he has a "gut feeling" we face a heightened chance of terror attacke this summer, could more false flag terror attacks such as 9-11 be imminent? Are Americans being curried for another Big One?
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, December 17, 2007
Put Option On America, Part 2 Legions of professionals, including many former Republican government officials, are speaking out against the Official Story of 9-11. CorpoMedia doesn't want you to know.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Terrorism, and The New World Order On the wings of phony terrorism, the New World Order will fly high; on the ignorance of Americans, their country is in a power dive.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, April 27, 2008
But, I Thought We Were Friends A staunch conservative grapples with realization that The People are no longer Boss---that the federal leviathan we call our government is no longer our friend, but an out-of-control monstrosity.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, March 20, 2008
Fight The Net War has been declared on the Internet by the Department of Defense (DOD). In their declassified "Information Operations Roadmap" they talk about ensuring "the graceful degradation of the network rather than its collapse". What makes the Internet an "enemy weapons system" to the DOD is the "uncontrolled information", also known as free speech.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, March 29, 2008
A Free Country By allowing government to slip freedoms out from under us with presidential directives and executive orders, our options for stopping the Pentagon's killing machine are almost gone.
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, August 25, 2007
The Power, But Not The Sense? We The People have nearly run out of ways to influence our government of, by and for corporations (CorpoGov). The General Strike being organized for 9/11/07 is movement in the right direction, but perhaps our ultimate option for forcing some sanity on CorpoGov is through our spending decisions.

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