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Aug. 30, 2008
It's not the economy stupid, it's the system.
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: To me, Obama comes off as a militarist in the mold of every US president since WWII. He seems to be advising carrying a really, really big stick and mumbling empty phrases about diplomacy. I end up thinking that if he is allowed to take office that there may very well be some reforms that help some folks a little, but that the basic system of plutocracy will be unchallenged and encouraged to grow yet stronger. |
Aug. 29, 2008
Our political theater of the absurd
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: By now it should be clear to anyone with a functioning mind that our political process has become a mere matter of theater designed to conceal the fact that our country has become a corporate pirates' nest, where the only political issues left in play are those that in no way step on any pirate's toe nor threatens the continued hauling in of the loot. The country is a wreck and falling ever more rapidly into decay, but from the view of the pirates this is a good thing. |
Aug. 26, 2008
Just a tiny drop of what Old Salt will need to learn about
by Marie K., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: It seems that the hit men among other things bribed and also threatened leaders in order to get them to cooperate with “Uncle Sam and our oil companies.” Of course, those who didn’t cooperate had to be removed. Then, the CIA turned up to cause coups, rig elections, or assassinate some. The leaders that they “got to” did as they were told and accepted large “development” loans from the World Bank, for example. This money could then be used for the “projects” they were pushed into doing so that the money flowed into US companies. Once the countries were indebted, they had to pay off the loans. This led to such actions as austerity programs, fuel price hikes, and public sector wage freezes. Alternatively, they could raise the money by accepting US military bases or by selling off their oil and other natural resources. |
Aug. 25, 2008
Dr. Doom's warning
by Lucy Lindblad, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Dr. Nouriel Roubini (a.k.a. Dr Doom) harshes the US government for a) massively subsidizing the wealthy with the on-going bail-outs, and b) allowing massive accounting fraud to continue even now because they are terrified of triggering an economic collapse. All in all, this is the most bearish article I've read in some time! For example, he is predicting that the S&P 500 has only fallen half way from its highs, and that the recession will last 18 months or more... |
At that nuclear altar
by Don Nash, Unknown News
Aug. 24, 2008
Obama's awfully naïve
by JR Mooneyham, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: I know you think Obama knows what he's doing. But I disagree. He seems awfully naive about some very important issues, as well as over-confident to the point of arrogance. Both usually signs of an immature and/or inexperienced person. Yeah, that's better than a truly demented and perhaps evil man like McCain. |
Aug. 22, 2008
That friendly fire will get you every time
by Don Nash, Unknown News
Aug. 21, 2008
Based on pipelines, the "Cold War" IS over -- if only the US-UK would shut up
by Marie K., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Russia and Western oil and natural gas companies are WORKING TOGETHER just fine while even experts get fooled into thinking that Russia is blocking Western efforts and/or that WWIII is only minutes away. Basically, the same goes for Iran. |
Aug. 20, 2008
Christofascism
by Don Nash, Unknown News
Aug. 19, 2008
Getting over it
by Sherri B., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: I've come to realize that war is and strife is a part of the circle of life. Does it have to be? No. Could we solve our differences? I'd love to think so. As long as the hunger for power and wealth abides in human hearts around the world the madness will continue. Perhaps our great-grandchildren will have much more sense than their elders and learn to live in peace. As it stands now it won't be happening. |
From this to this
by Don Nash, Unknown News
Aug. 18, 2008
A gigantic protection racket
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: We are well into World War Three, my friends, and unless we figure out how to pull the plug on gangster capitalism the ultimate cataclysm of total war and total destruction awaits us just around the corner. Whether that destruction comes from the use of weapons of mass destruction or from climatic catastrophe or some other, perhaps unanticipated, consequence of war, is a minor consideration. |
Twofer of travails
by Hazel Burke, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: After seeing the candidates' joint appearance at Saddleback Church, I came away believing that Obama actually has a very good chance of losing the election unless he gets his shit together. McCain "won" the contest by far, in my opinion -- there was really nothing about Obama's performance that seemed presidential; it was as if he were a young man speaking to a wise elder, with timidity and trepidation. Oy. |
Aug. 16, 2008
That terrible clang as the huge iron gate swings shut
by The Alchemist, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: You see, the communists are smart. They know that if they were to cut your food down to 500 calories a day, everyone would revolt, and even though they had guns, there were far more of us, and a mass rebellion would have overrun them. No, they did it gradually. 1900 the first week, then 1800 and so on. But eventually you were starving on a cup of rice a day. |
Terrible things await
by Don Nash, Unknown News
Aug. 15, 2008
This is God Almighty!
by Don Nash, Unknown News
Aug. 13, 2008
Torture for torture's sake
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The main use of torture in any setting is to force the appearance the victim's acceptance of the torturer's belief system. When the victims of the Inquisition cried out admission of their guilt of fraternizing with the devil, the torturers felt validated -- they rationalized their cruelty by telling themselves that their victims' souls had been saved. |
Holy hate
by Chris D., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Love for one another, unending understanding, and divine forgiveness has been a unifying factor in many religions across the globe. Even godless heathen atheists like myself know the simple value of being kind, loving, understanding, and forgiving. We all forget to be one of these things at one time or another, but we are only human. ... Fred Phelps preaches that we should be none of these things under any circumstances. |
McCain's bigamy, and answering a rhetorical question
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The chief problem of living in a confidence game environment occurs when people start repeating the lies that they have absorbed either explicitly, as in "We have to strike back over 9/11," or implicitly by unconsciously incorporating the assumptions incorporated in the lies, i.e. "National security is best served by having an invincible military." |
When did I get old?
by MonkeyMan, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The fear language seems pervasive. You might get sick, "be afraid." You might get sued, "be afraid." You might be killed by terrorists, "be afraid." Global warming is sending a storm your way, "be afraid." I don't want to be afraid, I want to relax and start working toward retirement. And I am getting very annoyed at the people around me who ARE afraid. |
Ain't a good idea to be punching bears
by Don Nash, Unknown News
Aug. 11, 2008
What's going on in South Ossetia, Georgia?
by Marie K., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: As for what matters the most to Russia, I actually don't think it is the BTC pipeline. They can still get their own projects going. There are enough customers for both the BTC and Russian pipelines. Thus, I assume that it IS the missile defense shield and the possibility of Georgia joining NATO and further encircling Russia with NATO countries that matters. |
A rough millennium for the mentally lazy
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: It has been a rough millennium for the mentally lazy. Forced to accept that Earth wasn't even the center of the Universe, much less the center of the solar system; Forced to accept that internal mental processes condition what we experience as "objective reality;" Forced to abandon ideas of racial superiority (big rearguard action there): And now thinking people are forced to give up the idea of that special covenant with God that we believed placed us in the position to dominate and endlessly exploit the Earth and all its life. |
Thermonuclear Jesus!
by Don Nash, Unknown News
Aug. 9, 2008
The relevant struggle
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: True power actually does stem from the people, not from slaves, not from hostages, not from mercenaries, not from monopoly capitalism, not from superior weapons. The question is whether or not the people are awake enough to respond to the challenge of their oppression. |
Basically screwed
by Don Nash, Unknown News
Aug. 7, 2008
That's what Jesus would do
by Chris D., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Too often you see people use faith or custom as a flimsy pretext to break the law and do as they please, but instead here is a refreshingly genuine and, dare I pun, blessed act of civil disobedience for a just cause. |
Penultimate perversion
by Don Nash, Unknown News
Aug. 6, 2008
Truth is a target meant for extermination
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: As each new false story is elaborated it necessarily incorporates elements of previous false stories that have stuck in the public mind as elements of reality. Over time the fraction of actual reality that is retained in the public mind is diluted to the point of non-existence. |
Harry Browne, though dead, is still right on gold
by Theo Lipschitz, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Over the medium to long term, the outlook for gold and silver prices seems good, especially for Americans. We know that the US is running ½-trillion deficits now, and annual increases of the Federal debt ceiling in excess of one trillion dollars are likely (but would probably be squelched fairly rapidly by our foreign overlords in China, Russia and the Middle East). Thus, continuous debasement of the US dollar is all but certain. On top of that, price inflation is running 5% in the US -- minimum -- and may increase during the coming years. Many, including the late Harry Browne have advocated owning gold as "insurance", and the reasons for doing so still appear valid. |
Let dissidence ring
by Don Nash, Unknown News
Aug. 5, 2008
USA, RIP
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Everywhere we see patriotism proclaimed by scoundrels and the simple-minded and ignored by the rest. To an increasing number of US citizens their chief identity is couched in membership in some ethnic, religious or political group. Nowhere do we see people saying that we are all on the same side and, for the sake of the country as a whole, we need to compromise and settle our differences. |
Why Cipro, when that's not the recommended antibiotic?
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Yes, dear friends, the monsters are no longer confined to the area under the bed. And yes, these monsters are quite capable of railroading a scientist and even murdering him and trying to make it look like a suicide in order to clear the case and put enquiring minds to rest on the issue of possible official culpability in domestic terrorism. |
Aug. 4, 2008
The whining of winners
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: An unvarnished assessment of the reality of increasingly rigid class structures in our society, underpinned by credentialing by elite educational institutions such as Yale and Harvard, reveals that this is a path to social failure. ... If you have been told all your life that you are superior and beyond error, little surprise that you can commit the most egregious errors with supreme confidence. |
Aug. 2, 2008
Journalism is an empty suit: Wear it
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: To have passed law and allowed regulation that has resulted in a very centralized control of mass media is to have violated the First Amendment, by having abridged the freedom of the press. In fact, we are witnessing a wholesale exfoliation of news staff at nearly every major newspaper and network bureau. Journalism is becoming an empty suit. |
Why can't Iran have nukes?
by HappySysiphus, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: It is patently racist to say that white Christian global expansionists can have nukes, but Brown Islamic global expansionists can't. Especially when the price for not having nukes is that your country is subject to a drop-by US Marine "Liberation" at any time. |
Aug. 1, 2008
Piggy piggy
by Don Nash, Unknown News
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