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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Oct. 31, 2008 Tell Officer Friendly to get a warrant by JS Magruder, Unknown News Excerpt: "Do you have a warrant?" If the answer is no, then tell them to have a nice day, and close your door. Omaha is now conducting one of those shams where they send cops door-to-door asking residents about "crime" in their neighborhood. Oct. 23, 2008 Can legalized bribery be called government? by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News Excerpt: Every conceivable statistic that can serve as a measure of governmental competence -- health outcomes like infant mortality and longevity, educational outcomes, financial statistics such as national indebtedness and the balance of payments, investments in industrial tooling and transportation infrastructure, responses to natural disasters, the provision of safe food and drug supplies, and every other measure of governmental accomplishment -- has the US falling rapidly into a third world status. Oct. 22, 2008 Not so fast... by Pavel C., Unknown News Excerpt: Now we are experiencing a moment of relative calm, which was purchased for a mere $5 trillion in bail-out money, and is probably intended to help the GOP in the November election. Afterwards though, what about the rest of the credit default swaps? Can the government prevent all bankruptcies by falling on the exploding grenades (and does that even help?) Oct. 20, 2008 John McCain: No hero, no honor, no patriot by Heidi Papademetriou, Unknown News Excerpt: When John McCain says ACORN is "perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country" and says it on national television, John McCain knows that he's spewing horsecrap. He's not stupid enough to be hoodwinked by the lies about ACORN, but he's smart enough to adopt those lies and use them in his campaign. Oct. 18, 2008 If I ever launch a political campaign, I'll do it at Bill Ayers' house because I hear Bernadine makes a hell of a cheese ball by JS Magruder, Unknown News Excerpt: If this weren't so pathetic, I'd think it was actually kind of funny (in a sick way, like when Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize) but people are responding to a "terrorist" being invited to lecture at UNL by... wait for it... calling in death threats to the university! Yeah, go ahead and insert the line about "I know you are but what am I?" Oct. 14, 2008 "The Clean Slate Bill" by The Righteous Reverend, Unknown News Excerpt: Under this proposal, one million dollars would be distributed to each and every taxpaying American citizen. There would be no income tax levied against this amount, however owed taxes could and would be subtracted, as well as owed monies for repayment of education grants and loans. Oct. 11, 2008 It really could be the end of the world as we know it by The Canadian, Unknown News Excerpt: The market support mechanism for corporate loan defaults around the entire world does not work and cannot work within the context of this common disaster. Put another way, it means the US market has no back-up other than the Fed/Treasury printing trillions of dollars in support of market assets which have no real market value. Oct. 9, 2008 Bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News Excerpt: Capital strikes are only meaningful when they are seen as analogous to the General Strike, in that the action must be coordinated, persistent and uniformly applied in the society. If the owners of capital persist in withholding investment, enabled by a government under their control, the only weapon left in the hands of the people is a general strike. Oct. 8, 2008 Are Ponzi schemes behind the financial sector fragility we're seeing? by Marie K., Unknown News Excerpt: SO, the Senate passed the bailout bill which I assume is basically the same as the bill proposed all along. It also has some unrelated "extras." It doesn't seem to be working. What was it intended to do? Why isn't it working? Loyalty to what? by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News Excerpt: A good place to start withdrawing cooperation is to encourage family and friends to discount everything they hear from mass media, much as the citizens of the former USSR knew to ignore anything communicated to them by their mass media. Every official announcement is some form of lie, distortion or disinformation even when it concerns real events. America as we have known it and loved it is finished by Leon Fisher, Unknown News Excerpt: I have never before felt the sense of hopelessness as I feel now, after listening to these two pretenders to the Office of President. It is obvious that this debate was nothing more than a charade in which both of these so-called candidates refused to address the real reasons which is driving our nation into the abyss. Oct. 7, 2008 What part of US media is propaganda? All of it. by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News Excerpt: The first victim of the knowledge blender of mass media is complexity. People don't like complexity. We want our stories simple. We want the story lines that we have been imbibing since we were in the crib. We want concretely visualized villains with black hats and equally concrete heroes in white hats. We want simple logic in our explanations, A causes B, not A and sometimes Q, especially in the presence of Z, may cause B. This is our weakness of mind that those who would exploit us utilize to rob and enslave us. Oct. 6, 2008 Marxism is good for Wall Street, bad for the Proletariat! by Leon Fisher, Unknown News Excerpt: In the midst of all this turmoil we should not lose sight of the fact that It is still the worker who through his sweat and toil is the creator of wealth, not the other way around. Capitalism creates nothing, and in order to profit must exploit the worker. Oct. 3, 2008 Tear down the houses! by SirJ, Unknown News Excerpt: The problem is not the mortgages. The problem is the houses. There are too many of them. Buy them up and tear them down. Is McCain a dead man running? by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News Excerpt: Could it be that the reason McCain is refusing to release his medical records is that he in fact carries a diagnosis of metastatic melanoma and may have as little as a few months to live? Oct. 2, 2008 Every now and then one of them gets caught by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News Excerpt: Now that the whole country is a victim you'd think that we would just admit it to each other, grow back some spine, and get on with the job of taking the criminals down. Pretty soon the emotional barriers of shame, denial, guilt and fear will not be able to continue holding back the tide and a great tidal wave of anger will come crashing ashore and things will change. Oct. 1, 2008 Message to the World from the US: "Please help us!" by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News Excerpt: Though I was momentarily buoyed by Monday's defeat of the humongously offensive Paulson proposal in Congress, I don't think that it represents anything near a final victory for the people. What it represents to me is a temporary setback for the criminal cabal that has taken over the country, brought on by a lack of confidence by legislators in the ability of crooked election processes to overcome the rage of voters at the uncharacteristically transparent nature of this latest mega-rip-off. Deal or no deal by Kathy Fisher, Unknown News Excerpt: But I guarantee if the NEW DEAL was rewritten to RESCUE them, give THEM loans to catch up with their debts and forgive ALL their debts, starting out on a clean slate, it would be looked upon as a bailout for the workers/the middle class, who just happened to fall on some hard times and got themselves bamboozled by some thieves. |
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