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Archives: February 2008
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Feb. 29, 2008
Dollar disaster
by Arnie V., Unknown News
 
Excerpt: Unless the US government goes cold-turkey on currency debasement and resource squandering activities, the middle and lower-class people in the economic food chain are going to be making soup from shoe leather.

Not all need drown as America sinks
by Kathy Fisher, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: The lifeboats are few but the swimmers are strong. They will survive because they have a fight left in them. Small numbers will say no and they might die saying no -- but they will not go passively without some noise. Defiance is the birth pain of revolution.

Feb. 28, 2008
The blessings of diversity in the pursuit of liberty and survival
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: The changes that we are about to be forced to deal with as a species will be sudden -- and catastrophic. The groups that survive will be those that retain the greatest degree of diversity of behavioral and perceptual styles, those most able to innovate in the face of change.

Feb. 26, 2008
An open letter to Ehud Olmert
by Skulz Fontaine, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: How about you and Israel lay off the Palestinian people for a time, two times, and two and a half times?

Feb. 25, 2008
Righteous karmic payback for banks
by Mr. Chuckles, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: Thousands, maybe millions of home owners can legally fight and win against bank foreclosures by merely asking in court that the bank produce the actual proof that they own the loan. Cases are being thrown out all over the country.

Protecting children from the horror of giving a damn
by JS Magruder, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: The thing that will drive me to civil disobedience will be some smug son-of-a-bitch telling me I can't perform the Works of Mercy. That's where I get radicalized. I'm going to feed the hungry. I'm going to give drink to the thirsty. I'm going to clothe the naked. I'm going to visit the imprisoned. I'm going to care for the sick. I'm going to bury the dead. And if that's going to be civil disobedience, then fine, count me in.

Vote for Nader as a protest against the status quo!
by Leon Fisher, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: Unlike the candidates of the Democratic and Republican Party, Nader tells it like it is. Despite the enthusiastic rhetoric of hope and change coming from the lips of the mainstream candidates, the only change we the people will see is the small change we have left in our pockets after this new gang of thieves get done bailing out their benefactors on Wall Street.

Feb. 23, 2008
Clinton is delusional, while Obama is Cool Hand Luke
by Cindy A., Unknown News
 
Excerpt: Hillary Clinton is delusional. No clue. Or just lying about her plans, which is equally likely. Or both. She seems to think that she will be ruling the world once she reaches the Oval Office. Didn't she get the memo? Bush screwed that up permanently. The US is no longer Number One.

Feb. 22, 2008
Greed is the problem with US medical care
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: The problems of medical care in the US are complex and hard to understand, but the cause is easy to identify: greed by the corporate influences that are picking over the corpse of US medical care. This is the reason why US medicine is falling rapidly behind all other industrialized countries and many poorer ones as well.

Feb. 20, 2008
What exactly is 'power to the people'?
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: It mostly means getting over the millennia of propaganda produced by coercive organizations that served to have us believe that we are inherently weak and dependent on remote authority for our survival. That was never true, is not now true, and will never be true. When we decide to band together in cohesive local units and act cooperatively with other such units for mutual support and protection, nothing is more powerful.

Feb. 19, 2008
Military intelligence, or ... An exercise in oxymoronic futility!
by Don Nash, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: I can vouch for the credibility of Scroats Newton. He's a decorated war hero. Scroats was wounded in the Battle of the Kandahar Cluster F**k, so obviously, Scroats is a standup guy and knows what the hell he’s talking about. And if anyone is thinking about making stupid or getting violently jiggy with the powers that be at this year’s upcoming presidential candidates’ coronation ceremonies, well, one just might want to think about it. Twice! Maybe three or four times.

Feb. 18, 2008
Criminal conduct, plain and simple
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: We know who is trying to kill us and our children, and their children. It is our job to stop them, not their responsibility to stop committing crimes.

Feb. 15, 2008
Unbelievable sh*t is about to happen
by Mr. Chuckles, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: Bernanke, Paulson and BushCo will trash the Treasury and economy before they leave office, so people want to get rid of their Ameribucks, which are a global joke currency now.

Feb. 14, 2008
Mughniyeh's assassination bodes ill
by The Canadian, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: In my opinion this assassination is analogous to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo in 1914, which lit the fuse for the Great War or what later became known as WW1. Israel is on high alert all over the world and especially along the Lebanese border.

Feb. 12, 2008
The hanging balls of Babylon
by Don Nash, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: 935 lies and still counting. The “surge” is a lie. Bush is a lie. It’s all a lie and has been ever since 9/11/01 ... Did you know that for every one lie told by Bush to Congress, by Bush to the American people, and by Bush to the world, four American service boys and girls have been deemed privileged to be killed?

Feb. 9, 2008
Teetering on collapse
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: In the vacuum that will result from the collapse of centralized authority, decentralization and reorganization around the basic needs of local communities and relying on local resources will likely generate different, more egalitarian, more ecological institutions designed by the people that participate in them.

Feb. 8, 2008
As the Empire folds in on itself
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: Certainly I will shed no tears for the passing of the insane way of life that we have been forced to depend on, almost no matter what happens. And I do expect to see this in my lifetime.

Feb. 7, 2008
Why the current election "fever" is so disgusting
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: The illusion of democratic government is so overwhelming that most people have a hard time coming to grips with the reality that our country is totally controlled by a small set of hugely wealth families and their foreign friends and that our national elections are just shams. Packaged as a sort of professional sport, our elections serve only to dull the mind and suspend real critical judgement.

St. John the Insane
by Don Nash, Unknown News

Feb. 6, 2008
Helpless and grieving
by Gina Dee, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: A thousand times I have searched myself for an answer I could understand. I cursed myself. I was angry with myself and then angry that I felt that I thought my self so important that I SHOULD have made this NOT happen. Who am I to think I have such power as that?

12 steps to liberation
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: I pledge that, having become aware of the importance of community to my physical, emotional and spiritual health, I will seek to influence others to abandon the individualistic, self-seeking path to slavery and seek community for themselves and all others, so that we can all begin to live in peace, harmony and abundance without need to resort to aggression, selfishness, lying and deceit.

Feb. 6, 2008
Hillary sings her way to genocide!
by Don Nash, Unknown News

Feb. 3, 2008
Curiouser and curiouser
by Marie K., Unknown News
 
Excerpt: I’ve checked -- the cables that reach Iran are NOT any of the severed ones. The cables to Iran DO come from the affected Gulf states, though, so they could be experiencing problems.

Feb. 1, 2008:
State of the Union vs. Sermon on the Mount
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: Torture is what the executive says it is and even admitted torture can be used when the executive wants, meaning that executive power supersedes and can ignore any common understanding of decency ...


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