Helen & Harry Highwater's cranky weblog of news and opinion.
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"News that's not known, or not known enough." Helen & Harry Highwater's cranky weblog of news and opinion. |
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Nov. 21, 2008 Congress roasts auto executives over bailouts by Theo Lipschitz, Unknown News Excerpt: Most of these companies, B of A, Citibank, car companies, drug companies, computer companies, etc.... most of them have profitable overseas subsidiaries. So my feeling is, if they need money now they should sell off their overseas stuff -- or else... to paraphrase the Congress-Critter, "You are a global company. Have you asked the globe for a bailout?" Nov. 19, 2008 Details, details, & details by Marie K., Unknown News Excerpt: What always seems to be missing from many news stories, no matter what the source are the details, i.e. the actual unknown news most of the time. What can you really understand without them? So any link that actually clearly offers a few seems worth mentioning to me. So here goes. Nov. 13, 2008 So it was all a con, a scam, flim-flammery by Amber Perez, Unknown News Excerpt: When the dollar drops 25% in a day and interest rates on the Federal debt double in a week, then Obama/Pelosi/et al will maybe receive the information and do something to stop the financial blood spurting from the Treasury. It will mean military withdrawal for the US from most everywhere, except those host countries who pay us as mercenaries. Grinding poverty is a fixed feature of our culture of domination by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News Excerpt: It should be obvious to any halfway informed observer that the housing price bubble was deliberately engineered by the finance, insurance and real estate (FIRE) sector of the economy, and has produced a tremendous windfall of profits for the engineers. The hypocrisy of an industry that uses tax funded "bail out" moneys to support shareholder dividends and vastly inflated executive salaries and bonuses, while continuing put families out on the street by pursuing sociopathic foreclosure policies, sets a new standard for disingenuousness. Nov. 11, 2008 Got NADS? by Mary Ann M., Unknown News Excerpt: The Democratic strategy has been to allow the Bush administration to do anything and everything, even when that meant destroying the Constitution and economy -- and now they expect us to believe that the 2008 election VINDICATES their leadership over that of the Republicans. They say the voters have spoken? More like a mugging victim screaming for help -- and then being beaten and robbed by the police. Undo the damage done by daydreams of wealth by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News Excerpt: What would you do for a million dollars, for a billion dollars? And what would a person you know well, but think of as having poor character, do for a billion dollars? Now, what do you suppose someone would do for a trillion dollars? I submit that they would easily part company with their sanity and come to regard the moral restraint exercised by ordinary people dealing with ordinary temptations as insane. They would be psychotic by virtue of having abandoned any frame of moral or ethical reference. Nov. 10, 2008 How to "save" the US automakers by Mahdi Abdul Finkelstein, Unknown News Excerpt: The automakers are asking for $50 billion in bailout money, and that is just a start. I say, make it an end, but instead give each of the 1,000,000 remaining US autoworkers $50,000 in tax-free money -- that totals $50 billion -- and then let the car companies go into bankruptcy court. Nov. 8, 2008 Dealing with the collapse of Everything by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News Excerpt: The fact is, we don't know how all this will turn out. Odds are that many mistakes will be made, and many false paths followed, before a new pattern emerges. The goal of acceptance of loss is not to attain prescience but rather to clear away the fantasies and confusions that leave us mired in the process and unable to move forward to reconstruct our lives. Nov. 7, 2008 If we are to avoid another civil war by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News Excerpt: We will not win this struggle by means of violence; we will win it by capitulation of the narrow minority who are brought to the understanding that they can no longer continue with their crimes. Nov. 6, 2008 A good way to start saving the world by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News Excerpt: Everyone can contribute by confronting the insane mutual mistrust that has grown up around our culture-of-fear by starting now, little by little, to reach out to neighbors, coworkers, commercial contacts and other more randomly encountered people and begin thawing the ice that has formed and frozen out community feeling in favor of a general, debilitating fearfulness. Nov. 5, 2008 Won't you join the fight against assholitis? by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News Excerpt: The path to true liberation must lie in the direction of confronting assh*les. Nov. 3, 2008 And the lies always end with "I'm John McCain and I approve this message" by Heidi Papademetriou, Unknown News Excerpt: John McCain either knows he's lying, or his grasp of the truth is so tenuous that he seriously believes his inane smears. .Either way, you tell me, do you want a man whose grasp of reality is as loose and trembling as McCain's obviously is, to have his finger on the nuclear button? McCain supporter for Obama by Steven S., Unknown News Excerpt: I'm probably 65/35 with McCain on the issues, but I'm 100% with Obama in the voting booth. A vote for Obama is a vote for campaigns run on the issues, and a vote for McCain is a vote for campaigns run on lies and smears. Nov. 1, 2008 McCain, Palin, and other sideshow freaks by Chris D., Unknown News Excerpt: To be fair, I have spoken with people who support the Republican Party and the conservative outlook who were quite far from insane. Their points were relevant, rational, even intelligent. But their numbers are dwarfed by the sideshow freaks making asses of themselves as they vandalize and threaten with little or no basis. Here's hoping you can pull your country up out of the mud, my American friends. Heaven only knows why you've tolerated being dragged through it this long. Attack of the Heebie Jeebies by Hazel Burke, Unknown News Excerpt: In reality, a) most corporations and rich people do not pay 35% in taxes, and half of corporations pay no taxes whatsoever; and b) can anyone claim that business profits are so great now under the Bush Regime and still claim that the main reason for stock market sell-offs isn't about f*ck up but is because Barack Obama *might* raise taxes someday? Gimme a break. Capitalism depends on cycles of destruction by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News Excerpt: The destruction of the lives of ordinary people caught up in this process is a necessary part of this cycle, from the point of view of those bargain hunters with cash -- to them it is an entirely good thing. For the very wealthy, having sympathy for the ordinary people destroyed by this imposed cycle would be like the farmer worrying about the wheat plant he is cutting down to harvest the grain. |
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