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Apr. 30, 2008
Chicken Little saves the world from the Dogs of War
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Meanwhile, ever-greater chunks of sky were falling everywhere, burying cities and towns, and causing great consternation. The Dogs of War, Commerce, Industry and Finance continued to claim that the Terrorist Goats were behind the destruction and that the Illegal Sheep crossing the border were also a big part of the problem. |
Apr. 29, 2008
Why democracy does not matter right now
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Almost anything that substitutes local sources of goods and services for corporate ones extracts another drop of blood from the beast. It doesn't seem like very much at the time, but every effort to feed, clothe, house and care for ourselves that does not send money toward the center of the exploitive economy are blows that can, when taken cumulatively, weaken the beast to the point of harmlessness. |
Fox is beating Obama like a gong
by Hazel Burke, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Obama can spend $10 million running ads in any given month, but Fox News can blow through that much media time in a day, all devoted to ensuring that Obama doesn't win ... and they can do that day after day after day. So can CNN, MSNBC and CBS. It doesn't matter how much money Obama has, if the corporations decide he shouldn't be nominated. |
Apr. 28, 2008
Making it harder for the speculators
by Marie K., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The more prices rise, and big profits are made, the more others invest, hoping for big returns. Look at the financial web sites: everyone and their mother is piling into commodities. ... The trouble is that if you are one of the 2.8 billion people, almost half the world’s population, who live on less than $2 a day, you may pay for these profits with your life. |
Apr. 27, 2008
Next bubble: Food (and other necessary commodities)
by Mahdi Abdul Finkelstein, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Because governments no longer back their currencies with gold, increases in money supplies have resulted over the past several decades, which greatly exceed the growth in planetary production. Therefore, in the years following the implosion of the internet stock bubble and the real estate bubble, both of which had global reach, another bubble was "needed" by the "investors" managing the excess trillions of dollars. |
Problems & solutions with Yanquis & corporations
by Marie K., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The European Union has put pressure on and been negotiating with 77 countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and Pacific since 2002 to sign on to "Economic Partnership Agreements" (EPAs) -- sanctions were threatened if they didn’t sign. In general, this will result in local production in these countries being further exposed to big international corporations. |
Apr. 25, 2008
Obama's "get out the vote" emails delayed
by Enduring in the East, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Who is Comcast endorsing? Is some other ISP interfering? Is there a mole in the Obama camp? Have aliens messed with our satellite transmissions? |
Apr. 23, 2008
Endless war for endless profit
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Victory, in this setting, is the last thing desired, as it would mean an end to the flow of profit. Defeat and retreat, likewise, are unthinkable for the same reason. The business plan is endless war for endless profit. |
Freedom is for brave people, not for farm animals
by Mr. Chuckles, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Let's face it, the long and slow decline of America is well deserved. We are ignorant, lazy, fearful sheep who inherited a rich paradise and watched placidly as it was stolen and obliterated. Freedom is for brave people, not for farm animals. |
Apr. 22, 2008
Which numbers deserve our attention?
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Compassionate people recognize that the suffering that these criminal wars at home in the US is, in turn, dwarfed by the unbelievable suffering that these wars inflict on the people of the Middle East which will also echo down through generation after generation. |
Apr. 21, 2008
The mote in Hillary's eye
by Hazel Burke, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: OK, so we know for a fact that Hillary Clinton is a chronic, serial, truth-avoider who lies frequently but is not actually very good at it, at least compared to her husband's skill as fabulousity and prevarication. |
It's a lie to say it's a mis-statement
by Amber Perez, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Basically, anyone making actual, real-life decisions involving money, property, liberty or happiness would be well advised to ignore television news completely. Even when they are right, they're wrong because their information is so dated that it is nearly impossible to use -- when they say buy houses that means that the richies are selling houses and short-selling banks! |
Apr. 20, 2008
Without sexism, where would Hillary Clinton be?
by Lloyd B., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Hillary Clinton deserves the respect due any person with six years' experience in politics, with no apparent ideals, with no original ideas of consequence, with a track record supporting an idiotic war, and with a political agenda that can only be described as Hillary Clintonist. There is nothing, absolutely nothing in her life to suggest that she is of anything remotely approaching Presidential stature. |
A supersized stack of good advice
by Pavel C., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Eventually I realized that I needed to do work for which I already had skills and training, which would, even though I disliked it, pay be some ok money and use my abilities. And that meant moving back to Civilization, or at least, near a big city in California. |
United States of Denial
by Don Nash, Unknown News
Apr. 19, 2008
A society that erects pedestals, and digs dungeons
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: All our professions and institutions are now led and controlled by people whose only claim to superiority is their political cleverness and ruthlessness. This is what comes from idolizing wealth and fame, and being influenced by the lies that ambitious people use to entice and confuse us. The way out of the corner is start forming small, local groups where the true character and capacity of the membership can be accurately assessed. |
Democrats must be cautious
by JR Mooneyham, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: If impeachment were feasible, I think the Democrats would have done it. Their razor-thin Congressional majority though -- diluted still further by Lieberman and a few others -- plus the Republican-dominated Supreme Court, and the Republican-owned mainstream media, would simply make a real impeachment effort on the part of Democrats worse than futile: it would likely help the mainstream media to hand the next election over to the Republicans in a landslide. |
A day at Blood Beach
by Don Nash, Unknown News
Apr. 18, 2008
Limbo debate: How low can these candidates go?
by Penny Nichols, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Both Clinton and Obama swore blood oaths not to raise taxes on those making less than $200,000 a year. FYI, that cap works out to $100 an hour. I don't think even Obama has measure the depths of bitterness and rage "out there" if he is considering people who earn $99 an hour "middle class". |
America has just out-evilled Evil itself
by Chris D., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Not only does your Congress, Democrats and Republicans alike, deign to openly dictate what Iraq's government will do while claiming it tastes freedom for the first time, they now force the Iraqi people to reimburse the military that carpet bombs entire city blocks for the fuel they expend in the process of raining death and terror upon them and have publicly declared that all aid Iraq received after being crushed beneath jack-booted heels was some undeserved kindness. |
How to destroy a great nation's economy
by JR Mooneyham, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: In a nutshell, this is what the whole country of America has been doing to itself, via outsourcing and miscellaneous other wage depression schemes, for decades now. If we're not yet beyond the point of no return, we sure as hell must be close! |
Celebrating 60 years
by Don Nash, Unknown News
Apr. 17, 2008
The destructive power of greed
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Eventually, as we now see, a corporate infrastructure of lobbying and public relations firms, wielding massive budgets for campaign "contributions" and espionage activities, becomes the true governmental power, and proceeds to systematically loot the ostensible governmental tax coffers. |
Thou shalt not criticize Israel for any reason
by Don Nash, Unknown News
Apr. 16, 2008
Less is more, and tarnished is better
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Please spare me from bigger, better, prettier, brighter, quicker, faster, cleaner, cooler, hotter, freer, slimmer, fitter, fancier, trendier and more of anything than I need to get through my day. |
Apr. 15, 2008
Will America become one huge tent city?
by Sherri B., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Just how close are we to the homeless that we help, but hope like hell we never to have to live their lives? What happens to us, the USA, as a family? |
Heckuva job, GMie!
by Mr. Chuckles, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: As with many other things, GM was at an all time high shortly before Bush took office -- up over $90 a share. After 7+ years of our first MBA president, GM is down to $19 a share, and the only reason it is still alive (I'm guessing) is that they're hoping for a government bail-out. OR... the Bush Regime doesn't want to preside over the bankruptcy of General Motors. |
The new war of independence
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Once we begin to recognize each other as coming from a common humanity, we can begin again to knit together the kind of local communities that were the true motive force in our country's original War of Independence. We will not need to fight pitched battles in order to win this New War of Independence. All that will be needed is to survive the coming tumult and watch the unsustainable structure of oppression self-destruct around us. |
Motivating more terrorists
by JR Mooneyham, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Polls show that 6% of the American public thinks attacks in which civilians are targets are "completely justified." In Saudi Arabia, this figure is 4%. In Lebanon and Iran, it's 2%. ... But maybe if we bomb Iran, we can boost bin Laden's popularity over there to match what it is in America. |
Flags of our world
by Don Nash, Unknown News
Apr. 14, 2008
Treat Hillary Clinton respectfully
by M.M., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: How would you feel if someone treated your mother the way Hillary has been trampled? There is a young woman, who loves her mother, who is watching you and others spit on her. Would you have your own daughters' heart broken that way? |
What's really reflected in Cheney's sunglasses
by Don Nash, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: I know the truth, and me and Syd had us one fine joy ride out to the moon, and the moon is highly overrated. But the ride was cool as hell and there isn’t diddly I can do for those ‘detained’ alien types. I feel bad for them, but our fine government has work for them to do and things will be just fine until alien guys’ home-boys come looking for them. |
Apr. 13, 2008
We are all trapped in The System
by Hazel Burke, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: This has got to be one of those "crowd think" situations, otherwise known as Monkey See, Monkey Do, but where the monkeys are juggling lit sticks of dynamite. |
War on porn & attacking Hillary Clinton
by Chris D., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Once somebody gets it in their head that something is offensive to them, they get the urge to purge it from the face of the Earth and to Hell with anyone who doesn't share that sentiment. I get the idea that there are things we should shield are kids from but isn't this, y'know... stupid? |
Apr. 12, 2008
Atlas shrugs, again
by Mahdi Abdul Finkelstein, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: A few parasites are tolerable, but if the entire system is covered with heart worms, ticks, lice, bedbugs, viruses and oozing wounds, then no-one profits. And at that point, Atlas shrugs, and goes into self-defense mode, saving itself. |
Addressing the sub-prime crisis with pure BS
by Chris M., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: This is all after the fact BS that sounds politically good but really does little to help. Someone needs to watch The Grapes of Wrath again and pay attention this time. |
What have we become?
by Don Nash, Unknown News
Apr. 11, 2008
Pukeworthy: Democrats blame Bush for Iraq quagmire
by Hazel Burke, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Democrats appear to have voted for continuing the war because they were afraid of being branded pacifist, isolationist, bin Laden-loving Defeatocrats. ... The Democrats are manipulative cynics in this battle, who purposely allowed America to be degraded to advance their own selfish ambitions for power and wealth. We expect that of Republicans and are not surprised. Of the Democrats many expected more ... |
Visit beautiful Israel
by Don Nash, Unknown News
Apr. 10, 2008
Gen. David H. Petraeus -- stupid or a liar
by Marie K., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: There is competition between those ethnic Americans and Britons and the Iraqis over who controls Iraq and its resources. Sometimes the Americans and the British bomb and attack the Shiites and sometimes the Sunnis, and sometimes the Arabs and sometimes the Kurds. |
Apr. 9, 2008
America has been completely punked
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: One of the very painful realities that we will need to confront as we wake up to the consequences of our stupidity, is that we will need to abandon the stories that we have become accustomed to hearing about ourselves. Our enemies are not from abroad, not from somewhere far away, but live in our own communities.
With some exceptions that need to be carefully proven, our enemies are those of us who have become rich while the rest of us have been becoming progressively poorer. |
Two rocks out of the ground
by M.M., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: I realize now that a female candidate will always be too young or too old, too tall or too short, not pretty enough or too pretty. Men continue to visit all of their fear and insecurity onto women's bodies. We continually receive the message that a woman is incomplete without a man. |
We're looking at World War III
by Nan R., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Lacking any ability to defend itself from an American attack, Iran will do the next best thing (from its perspective): It'll launch missiles at Israel. ... Israel, of course, has nuclear weapons, and for all the propaganda about Iran's insane leadership, Israel's leadership is more obviously certifiable, and might well be willing to face the blowback -- literally and metaphorically -- from using nukes. |
Kill the messengers!
by Don Nash, Unknown News
Apr. 8, 2008
After the fighting in Basra + more US lies
by Marie K., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: As for there being Iranian fighters in Iraq, as The Times of London reports US Gen. David Petraeus will say to Congress, Cole says that there have been Iranian pilgrims going to the sacred Shiite shrines, but the pilgrims have been recalled home and the pilgrimages halted. Cole adds that "a handful may have gotten caught up in the fighting," but for Iran to send Iranian troops or agents into Basra to undermine Iraqi government forces "on behalf of the Sadr Movement just strikes me as daft. It flies in the face of everything else we know about the relationship of these groups with Iran." |
Bottom-line thinking sinks North American economies
by Chris D., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: We have more money but we get less out of it. Essentials are more expensive to buy. Food, clothing, medicine are all made at the lowest cost for the highest return; cheaply produced but expensive to buy. Services such as healthcare are poorly managed and the coverage of those services tends to suffer as cost becomes the bottom line rather than a patient's health. When it gets down to it the workings of our society make it so that we have little time to ourselves and even less time to enjoy it causing our physical and mental health to deteriorate quicker. We spend a lot of time trying to convince ourselves we have it better. Maybe it's about time we drop the ego and look at our lives objectively. |
No-one wants Monopoly money in real life
by Chris M., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The Fed knows, as does everyone else on Wall Street, that not only is the party nearly over, but there is a chance the building will be condemned as well. They are playing Monopoly without buildings or properties and very little money, trying to con the guy next to them and hoping no-one finds out what is really going on. |
Apr. 7, 2008
We are all insurgents at heart
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The truth is that if you want to fight a whole people, the only possible avenue to "Victory" is total, or near total, genocide, such as was pursued in the American Indian Wars. It is a mark of social progress that such openly genocidal campaigns of conquest have become unacceptable to the conscience of the world. Now, aims of conquest must be pursued covertly under the cover of "bringing democracy" or "fighting terrorism." |
Torturing politicians
by Don Nash, Unknown News
Apr. 6, 2008
Congress has a new deal ... for corporations
by Mr. Chuckles, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The more we spend on the military and police state the less secure the country is, and the sooner the police state will collapse. I believe China is more free now than America. They are certainly more capitalistic than we are. |
Apr. 5, 2008
Rockefellers and Bushes, Nixons and Kissingers
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The only real significant player in the drama is the sleeping giant of the mass of ordinary people. As long as they keep taking the soporific of material dependency on concentrations of power the story line is stuck. We are on the verge of the point in the story where the giant wakes. That is the drama. |
Equivalence!
by Don Nash, Unknown News
Apr. 4, 2008
Grass roots censorship
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Freedom of speech is fundamental. It is like the musculature of a free society. If we don't use it, we lose it. As controversy becomes more frightening, and speaking your mind becomes more of a risk, it becomes more important for ordinary citizens to exercise the right of speaking our minds forthrightly and cogently. So what if arguments ensue? At least the right to argue has been defended. |
Garbage in, garbage out
by JR Mooneyham, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Previous Republican-dominated Congresses usually resisted or defied Republican Presidents on at least some matters of importance. But not the last bunch: instead, they marched in a Nazi-like lockstep on practically every issue with the President. The most difference they ever displayed was saying something in opposition in public -- but then turning around and doing exactly what Bush wanted in legislation. |
Just the facts, ma'am
by Z, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: When you add these incredibly fraudulent rip-offs to the fact that the highest levels of the Bush Regime ordered torture against all international law -- laws which the US itself used to hang Germans and Japanese after WWII -- the conclusion must be that our government is run by a criminal syndicate, like the Mafia except they control the whole country, including the money and secret police. |
Apr. 1, 2008
Who benefits from US-style 'capitalism'?
by Rob L., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The gap between rich and poor has grown bigger each year, and our unions are a pale shadow of their former selves. Who benefits? Not me. |
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