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(15 comments) SHARE        Thursday, June 16, 2011
Is Our Leftist/Socialist Military Setting an Example That Many of Us Don't Want to Admit? Our armed forces live by a very liberal ethos and it works. Our military helped lead the way in racial desegregation, and today does more to provide equal opportunity to working-class families than any social program. It has been an escalator of social mobility in our society because it invests in soldiers and gives them skills and opportunities. A general earns just 10X what a private makes, a CEO 300X what a janitor makes.

(29 comments) SHARE        Sunday, June 12, 2011
In Romantic Relationships, Who Are More Accomplished and Successful as Manipulators? Men or Women? Here are two parallel stories that are meant to be compared and discussed. The first one is about an older man who temporarily reunites with a younger and very attractive, but manipulative woman with whom he was once romantically involved. The second story, following it, has the exact same wording, and describes the exact same events, but the roles of the man and the woman are reversed. Your thoughts please.

(36 comments) SHARE        Saturday, June 11, 2011
Will Obama and the Supply-siders Inadvertently Drag Us Into Another Great Depression? Even as another Great Depression looms, our political/media system seems incapable of honestly addressing the crisis. Instead, the old partisan and lobbying games dominate politics, and obsession with trivia commands the media's limited focus. Creditor-friendly policies are crippling our economy: The attempt to protect the banksters from any losses is inflicting very large costs on everyone else. But can we stop this in time?

(18 comments) SHARE        Monday, June 6, 2011
Tracking, Explaining and Understanding the Cleverly Organized Crimes of Banksters As America girds itself for another round of lunatic political infighting over which barely-breathing social program or urgently necessary federal agency must have their budgets put on the chopping block, so as to enable billionaires to keep their third boats and fourth homes in top shape, it's important to point out just how scarce money **isn't** when it comes to socialism for the rich.

(12 comments) SHARE        Saturday, May 28, 2011
The Wall Street Meltdown: Origins and Implications More than four years after the cracks in the financial foundation could no longer be ignored, people remain bewildered about the causes of the steepest economic downturn since the Great Depression. And they wonder why we are still mired in it, as we are forced to watch the maddening aftermath: hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars being spent to rescue some of the very institutions that drove the country into the ditch!

(22 comments) SHARE        Sunday, May 22, 2011
Must Globalization & Computerization Lead to Ever Fewer Good Jobs for American Workers? Without more workers paying taxes, we will never have the tax revenues we need to fund even limited government. We squander far too much on tax breaks for the rich, subsidies for oil companies, wars conducted by our "Defense" Department, and tax exemptions and deductions for the upper-middle and upper classes. Meanwhile we spend far too little on the investment programs that will create good new jobs for the future.

(8 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, May 17, 2011
America's Shrinking Middle Class & the Banksters Who Are Helping the Process Corporate stealing has become a kind of national pastime for the financial elite, and Goldman Sachs is far from the only company getting away with it. If the Justice Department fails to give us a chance to judge this case, and if Goldman skates without so much as a trial, it will confirm once and for all that the law in America has become subjective, and that crime is now defined not by what you did, but by who you know.

(18 comments) SHARE        Saturday, April 30, 2011
Has the Great American Apocalypse Begun? Insane government spending, massive debts, out-of-control money printing, and almost unimaginable political cowardice are about to exact a heavy toll from each of us. And now, as our massive debts begin to implode, and as the US dollar plunges in value worldwide, everything in your life is set to change--radically. Millions more Americans are about to lose their income, their savings, their buying power, and their homes.

(43 comments) SHARE        Monday, April 11, 2011
To What Extent Was Mossad Involved in the Events Leading to 9/11? British intelligence reported in February 2002 that Mossad ran the Arab hijacker cells that were later blamed by the US government's 9/11 Commission for carrying out the attacks on the WTC and Pentagon. A Mossad unit consisting of six Egyptian- and Yemeni-born Jews infiltrated al Qaeda cells in Hamburg, south Florida, and the UAE in the months before 9/11. Mossad gave them specific orders that would culminate in the attack.

(16 comments) SHARE        Monday, April 4, 2011
How We Could Create 15 Million Jobs and Eliminate the Federal Deficit Corporate America now wants a much higher level of unemployment than was considered normal in years past. They say that the 'normal' of the past, 4.5%, is now obsolete. The 'new normal' is to be 8-9%. We must reject this. And if corporations flush with trillions in cash refuse to hire sufficiently to reduce unemployment to 4.5%, then the government must, to whatever extent necessary, become the replacement employer.

(16 comments) SHARE        Sunday, March 27, 2011
How Might We Avert the Economic & Environmental Catastrophe That Approaches We need a law requiring all utility companies to buy (for 7x the going rate) any excess electricity generated by homeowners and businesses that have their roofs covered with PhotoVoltaic cells--just as is now done in Germany, where such measures have so far eliminated the need to build & operate eight additional nuclear reactors. Where to get some of the money for such compensation to those who cover their roofs with PV cells?

(45 comments) SHARE        Saturday, March 26, 2011
Tracking Our Downward Spiral: the Ways in Which America Still 'Leads' the World America is bringing back debtors' prisons! Millions of us have been screwed over by predatory lenders and fine-print credit card contracts, and now, partly because of that, many of us are swimming in debt. Those who can't pay off their credit cards can now be thrown in jail in a third of the states in our nation. Since the start of 2010, over 5,000 arrest warrants have been issued against people who owe as little as $1000.

(12 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, March 22, 2011
The War On Truth: 9/11, Disinformation and the Real 'Terrorists' in America This report tars the CIA & FBI, the US & UK, claiming that they either knowingly or unwittingly supported, aided, and abetted terrorists, and that the main purpose for allowing 9-11 to happen was so that it could serve as a rationale and/or cover for: the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, the trashing of the Bill of Rights, the clamp down on civil liberties, and the continuing transfer of wealth to the top 1%.

(7 comments) SHARE        Thursday, March 17, 2011
The End of Economic Growth The economic crisis that began in 2007-2008 was both foreseeable and inevitable, and it marks a permanent, fundamental break from past decades -- a period during which most economists adopted the unrealistic view that perpetual economic growth is necessary and also possible to achieve. But there are now fundamental barriers to ongoing economic expansion, and the modern world is increasingly colliding with those barriers.

(52 comments) SHARE        Friday, March 11, 2011
Four Ticking Time Bombs That Will Soon Ignite a Revolution Forget jailing Wall Street's dictators. It's naïve and too late. We missed that opportunity. But a revolution will do the trick, giving us a second chance to jail the bastards. Until then, remember: The following four factors are building to a head, merging into a critical mass that will accelerate into a revolution and destroy Wall Street from within.

(6 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Would That We Could Have Wisely Invested the Money Stolen From Us by Banksters and Not Let Unions Be Crippled Michael Moore: "There has been a massive transfer of wealth to the rich from the rest of us. It has been the greatest heist in history, from the workers and consumers, to the banks and the portfolios of the uber rich. Those in charge have diverted that wealth into a deep well that sits on their well-guarded estates. They know. They know that they have committed crimes to make this happen."

(15 comments) SHARE        Monday, March 7, 2011
With Ever Growing Productivity, Why Must We Keep Working 40-50 Hours a Week For So Many Years of Our Life? There are other kinds of wealth besides those that have to do with the maximized consumption of resources, fuel, & consumer goods. In a famous essay, Bertrand Russell explained it something like this: Modern industrial techniques have made it possible to diminish enormously the amount of labor required to secure the necessities of life for everyone. This was obvious as far back as World War II & is more true today than ever.

(7 comments) SHARE        Thursday, March 3, 2011
The "Budget Crisis" is the Product of Tax Avoidance Scams By The Very Rich Reduced taxes on the rich leave them with ever more money to buy politicians. This wins them further tax reductions, which give them still more money to put to political use. Then, when the loss of tax revenue from the rich worsens already strained government budgets, the rich and powerful press politicians to cut public services and government jobs and not even debate a return to the higher taxes the rich used to pay.

(4 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, March 2, 2011
All Wars Are Begun With Lies, Continued With Lies, and Later Explained With Lies Behind the fear-mongering, flag-waving and lies of George W. Bush and the blandishments of Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama lies the ugly reality that our leaders have been seduced by political ambition, delusions of military superiority, and the promise of secrecy and impunity. This enables them to commit otherwise unthinkable war crimes, all on the basis of lies.

(14 comments) SHARE        Saturday, February 26, 2011
Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail? -- a synopsis of Matt Taibbi's recent article and interview The financial-crisis era is one in which we've seen virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that have impoverished millions of people and collectively destroyed trillions of dollars of the world's wealth. It's also one in which the American people have been systematically defrauded by Wall Street companies operating in conjunction with Congress and the Fed.

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