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Mar. 31, 2008
The "news" is not news at all
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Come the inevitable collapse of the world's economy, as it succumbs to the ravages of parasites, the only news that will matter is what is happening in your neighborhood as you struggle to survive. In many ways that will be a healthier cognitive environment. Nothing undermines health like a steady diet of lies. |
Moqtada al-Sadr, the fighting in Basra, & oil
by Marie K., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: This site called the Iraq Oil Report in its Mar. 28, 2008 report offers some interesting info that isn’t usually discussed -- in particular, one important explanation for the recent fighting by the al-Sadr Mahdi Army resistance group (Shiite Iraqi nationalists AGAINST the break up of Iraq, against Iranian involvement, and against the foreign takeover of their still nationalized oil) versus the "collaborator" Shiite Iraqi forces sent in by Prime Minister al-Maliki to Basra (Iraq’s second largest city & key oil hub). Al-Maliki is backed by the Badr organization (that includes former Iraqi exiles in Iran) and the Kurdish Coalition. US and British forces are providing backup planning and air strikes. Clearly, the emphasis in the report is on Iraq’s oil, but the details matter. ... |
Making money the old fashioned way: Smart friends
by Mr. Chuckles, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: If West Virginia were a rich state then houses would cost more, but it isn't so they don't. Even with the US dollar so cheap, how many Germans want to invest in Charleston fixer-uppers? |
Mar. 30, 2008
An economy that takes from its people and gives nothing back
by Chris D., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: All the ideals behind Capitalism were centered around the self-employed and small time businesses. Competition, diversity, and the so-called free market are all much more effective on smaller scales. |
Mar. 28, 2008
The latest Bush administration bull: Social Security's is "unsustainable"
by Spud Packard, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Social Security faces a 4.3 trillion dollar unfunded liability over the next 75 years? BIG F**KING DEAL. George W. Bush blew through 5 trillion in just 7 years, increasing the actual national debt from under $5 trillion to almost $10 trillion. |
Mar. 27, 2008
Warnings from an ancient past
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The bad news is that the niche that humans occupy, that of the intelligent, tool-using terrestrial animal, will most likely be filled again by evolution, leading to a likely replay of our mistakes. The good news is that we can attempt to warn such a future intelligent species and perhaps end this cycle of intelligent self-destruction before it starts again. |
Bosnian bullsh*t
by Don Nash, Unknown News
Our main enemy is our willingness to pursue fantasies
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Taking control of our lives back from the fascists will likely not be a pretty process, but imperfect starts toward self-reliance are what we will need to depend on to get the process off the ground. |
Sensory overload
by Sherri B., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: It is strange for me that this is the first time that I ever noticed how people can get so lost and confused. It is not strange to see how easily media can be used to frighten, circumvent plans, confuse, and downright mislead those that fight the good fight. |
Mar. 25, 2008
The solution is in the people's hands
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: A neighborhood group could, for instance, try to establish a neighborhood clinic that works on a cash only basis. Such a group could elicit support from the large number of uninsured and underinsured who would sign up as potential patrons of such a clinic. Just a few thousand folks willing to state their intent to patronize such a non-profit, cash only clinic, and willing to contribute a small membership fee to get things moving, could end up providing for their own medical care in a remarkably short time. |
On hair-trigger alert
by The Canadian, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The big question is this: will Iran/Syria pull the trigger via their proxy army or will they simply use the threat of war to achieve a measure of protection to sustain their domestic political and nuclear agendas? |
Mar. 23, 2008
Come the revolution
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Modern technology has armed the forces of oppression to degrees that surpass understanding. But be reassured. With every increased measure of oppression, the pressure for change grows exponentially in reaction. Have faith that the rear guard actions of the system will eventually cause it to crumble in a sudden and spectacular ways. |
Blood-sucking Wall Street parasites
by Leon Fisher, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: If we reject the idea of being exploited by some Wall Street moneychanger who compares our existence upon the face of this Earth to some commodity like toilet paper or garbage bags, then it is time to begin the process of removing their poison from our economic and our political body. |
Mar. 22, 2008
Ass-clowns in Wonderland
by Hazel Burke, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Is it really good public policy to have millions of people homeless, without jobs or healthcare while homes sit empty and work remains undone? |
The color of global oppression is in shades of white
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Racism is a very personal issue and needs our personal ground truth involvement to beat it back. To the extent that we are willing to be fully human, we need to accept the realities of the suffering of all our brothers and sisters. Love thy neighbor as thyself. |
Trillions of reasons to be optimistic
by Hazel Burke, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: At the end of all this, Americans will be hungry and organized, which is a scary combination! I think this is inevitable, because we will have oodles of Experience. We will have seen the worst, most depraved atrocities of the people in government and on Wall Street, and we will be highly motivated to reclaim what is ours -- not just our freedom, wealth, privacy and self-respect, but our country! Maybe even the stars. |
Mar. 21, 2008
On the up side of this disaster
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Vision is important. No vision, no future. Realism is also important. No realism, no survival. |
Mar. 18, 2008
A modest proposal for the immodest problem of a failing health care system
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: We have a choice. We can wait for politics to reform itself and solve the problem of declining access to our current system of health care and its declining quality, or we can get to work introducing practical solutions on the community level. I submit that waiting for the political system to reform itself is an untenable approach. My proposal, or some other proposal that links patients and providers in a mutually beneficial and ethical way, will be needed to circumvent our current paralysis. |
Mar. 15, 2008
One last heads-up on the US economy
by Mr. Chuckles, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The fate of Western Civilization is at stake, and it is reasonable to suppose that Europe, and Japan at least, will come to our aid in this time of crisis. But the President has burned every bridge, and there are valid reasons to suppose that right- thinking allies see this as a perfect time to de-fang and defenestrate a hyper-powerful country that has turned fascist and gone horribly wrong! |
Mar. 12, 2008
America's just deserts
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: When, as shortly will be demonstrated, America lapses into a condition of abject suffering, similar to what our government has helped impose on so many people of the world, no tears will be shed by the rest of the world in the telling of the tale.
We will be seen as suffering our just deserts -- first living high on crime and then reduced to the gutter by our excesses.
We will be lucky if we can scrape together the price of the drugs we feel we will need, to continue to self-treat our despair. |
People have just stopped giving a damn
by Chris D., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: From what I've witnessed, people have come to accept almost anything one human being says or does to another as normal behavior at first glance, and are too wrapped up in our own lives to stop and take another look.
You see people arguing, it's normal. Even as they start uttering threats, it's just a couple of people yelling at each other. It's normal. |
Mar. 11, 2008
Liar, liar
by Don Nash, Unknown News
Mar. 9, 2008
Dragon-free and peaceful
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: In a galaxy far, far away there was a nation that used some pet dragons to win a great war with evil. They pampered and fed these dragons in perpetual gratefulness for their survival. Thedragons grew and multiplied until the upkeep of the dragons sapped the strength of that nation ... |
This train's called Economic Disaster and it has no brakes
by Leon Fisher, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: After the smoke of the economic train wreck clears, we will see our hard fought for standard of living considerably diminished. |
Mar. 8, 2008
On the verge of utter economic collapse:
A suspicion, a guess, a fear, a hope and an idea
by Mr. Chuckles, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: There will be blood on the streets as millionaires push and shove through the crowd to the dollar exit doors. There will probably be one final insane selling climax and then Fox/CNBC/MSNBC will shout "Fire!". That will be the sign that the rich people will soon be reversing the money flows to buy up US properties on the cheap -- like real estate, bonds and stocks that were abandoned during the hysterical rush to flee the burning theater. Naturally, Joe-Sixpack will be selling dollars at the precise, multi-decade bottom -- and will then hold fast waiting for a final collapse, which will not be allowed to occur by The Powers That Be. |
Mar. 6, 2008
Conspiracies, secrecy, and radical honesty
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: In today's world, the rational person is forced to fly blind most of the time, and can have very little confidence in their perceptions of the day as they will likely be shown to be in error in light of future revelations. Consequently I believe with certainty very little of what I see, and not very much of what I think. |
Clinton's politics of personal destruction
by Mariah G., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Between the Who You Gonna Call At 3 AM ad, and her disparagement of Barack in favor off McCain's and her own grandiose foreign policy experience, etc., etc., Clinton has severely damaged her own party for the general elections. If she manages to get the nomination under these circumstances a lot of people will end up voting for McCain. |
Mar. 5, 2008
A bull market in schadenfreude
by Granville's Hammer, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The newest bubble, aside from oil and gold, is Schadenfreude. You don't hear it much on CNBC or MSNBC, but the average person is delighted when informed of the horrors befalling their corporate tormentors. It is glorious to see bankers and financiers forced to beg for scraps. Payback is a bitch! And this isn't just any payback. This is Payback With Compounded Interest. |
The genocide goes on
by Ben Heine, Unknown News
Mar. 3, 2008
This week in the Class War
by JS Magruder, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: If you've grown up in the era of celebrities performing public charity, it is difficult to translate that back down to a person-to-person level. Pretty soon we all think we should have a camera there to applaud us for our generosity-or a publicly displayed plaque, mention in a newsletter, and so on. |
Mar. 2, 2008
America can't compete in even the simplest of industries
by Granville's Hammer, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Mostly, as far as I can tell, the rules, regulations and laws are used to punish enemies of the state and are applied only when there is an agenda in action (having nothing to do with food safety.) So I don't know what good it does for us to even have the USDA and FDA if they only regulate American producers. |
Mar. 1, 2008
It all makes sense if you think like a sociopath
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: I can hardly wait for the dust to settle on this destructive process, since I hope to still be alive when the evildoers who control our country lose interest and leave for greener pastures or, hopefully, their just desserts. Left to ourselves, I believe we can institute real democracy and popular control and make a decent, if poor, life from the wreckage the sociopathic gangsters leave behind. |
A "threat" to pull out of NAFTA?
by Chris D., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: If you believe that bullshit about NAFTA being a mutually beneficial trilateral agreement to lower tariffs and facilitate fair competition with equal terms to all three countries, then you're sorely mistaken. |
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