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Distractions
There are WMDs loose in the land of the free, land of the brave. Not weapons of mass destruction, but weapons of mass distraction. Unfortunately, they are still massively destructive. Continue reading
Posted in Corporatism, Democracy, Political Analysis, Political Rant, Social Commentary, War and Peace
Tagged Ebola, economy, ISIS, MSM, North Korea, nuclear war, Putin, Russia, terrorism, Tom Brady, TPIP, TPP, Wall Street
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Change We Can Believe In
Change we can really believe in starts November 4th, arguably the most important election in our history. Continue reading
Posted in Political Analysis, Political Rant
Tagged 1%, approval of congress, child care, economic bubble, economy, fair tax, Federal Reserve, heating oil subsidies, Medicare, mid-term election, offshoring, school lunch programs, social security, tax havens, throw-the-bums-out, unemployment, Wall Street
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Spreading The Love
TPP is being promoted by a public relations campaign using our public officials as spokespersons for the transnational corporate elite who are promoting this onerous, ill-conceived weapon of economic destruction.
Don’t be fooled by this self-serving and bogus propaganda. Continue reading
Posted in Corporatism, Political Analysis, Political Rant
Tagged Canada, China, economy, Japan, Japan Post, Mexico, Myanmar, NAFTA, President Obama, South Korea, Thailand, TPP, U. S. Postal Service, Vietnam, Wall Street
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Debtor’s Prison
To live in a country which has borrowed up to its eyebrows to build bombs and promote war is incarceration at its worst. It is living in the confines of a shameful and ruinous nightmare, a jail of bankrupting tyranny. We truly live in a debtor’s prison. Continue reading
Posted in Political Analysis, Political Rant
Tagged American economy, debt, economy, imperialism, militarism, military-industrial complex, national debt, tyranny, war
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Bank of America Declares War on the United States
Bank of America has declared war on our country. The recently announced transfer of $75 trillion in derivatives _ much of which is toxic assets _ has the potential for bankrupting the nation. Continue reading
Posted in Banking, Corporatism, Political Rant
Tagged America, American economy, Bank of America, bankruptcy, deception, derivatives, economy, Obama, politics, President Obama, rich, toxic assets, USA
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Chris Hedges: Speaking Truth To Power
In a OpEdNews essay titled “A Movement Too Big To Fail”, Chris Hedges explains why we must never compromise our values or temper our legitimate criticism of America. Continue reading
Terrific Job Opportunity
The Air Force just announced that due to a huge shortage of pilots to fly the unmanned Predator and Reaper drones we are using to terrorize the planet, they will be training more of them by the hundreds over the coming months. Continue reading
Posted in Political Rant, Satire, Social Commentary
Tagged Air Force, American economy, drones, economy, job opportunity, military, nerds, pilotless drones, Predator, Reaper, unemployment, video games
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More Guns . . . Fewer Stethoscopes!
People are expendable according to Major Keith Markham in a private memo to his platoon leaders. So why not just shoot everyone who steps out of line? Continue reading
Posted in Political Rant, Satire, Social Commentary
Tagged economy, education, guns and butter, health care, jobs, Medicaid, Medicare, military, moral bankruptcy
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Back To The Basics
I was taught that there are three pillars to a solid, vibrant economy: business, labor and government. What has happened? Labor unions have been destroyed, government has been bought by corporations, and big business has elevated itself to a position of absolute control (if not heartless tyranny) in the form of a corporate kleptocracy raiding the Treasury and impoverishing the citizenry. Continue reading
From the – to the +
As citizens, we must decide how we are going to go about shaping our society and country, how our democracy will function, how the decisions get made, how much of the responsibility to ourselves and future generations we’re going to entrust and delegate to our leadership elite, the elected or de facto pillars of society, and what remains inviolably ours. To implement those decisions and new alignment of power, the sane and sensible majority must wrest the power from the misguided, greed and hubris-driven 1%, and put ‘We the people’ back in the political equation. My new book, “Candidate Contracts: A Manifesto (A New Front and Perhaps Last Stand at Establishing Representative Democracy in America)”, arriving in late May or early June, will point the way for American citizens to establish their rightful place in shaping the future of our nation for themselves and future generations. Continue reading →