commentary Tuesday, May 13, 2008  As soon as you are ready, stop obsessing about politics and all the rest of the hoopla by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News   Excerpt: What goes around, comes around. We have cause immense suffering in the world during the brief time that we have existed as a society. Now will come the time of our discontent, and out of that suffering there may yet emerge a society that we can be sincerely proud of participating in. Burma disaster vs. Katrina by Amber Perez, Unknown News   Excerpt: The Katrina "response" was pure evil. The evil was not "incompetence" but the deliberate actions taken to magnify the disaster. It was Disaster Capitalism taken to an extreme. Syria & Lebanon -- writing about them is NOT easy by Marie K., Unknown News   Excerpt: Today Syria’s interest in Lebanon requires that it stay stable so that the many Syrians working there can continue to do so. The Syrian business community also relies on Lebanese banks. For the Lebanese, 35% of their exports go overland through Syria and an important amount to Syria. Both Syria and Lebanon’s biggest trading partner is the EU. Monday, May 12, 2008  Mercenaries looking for a few bad men by Chris D., Unknown News   Excerpt: There's a fairly obvious downside to letting potentially unbalanced and ethically challenged hired guns who owe allegiance to their company before their country reside above the law. If there's an upside to giving these companies free reign to regulate themselves and letting them act as a military despite hiring madmen and perverts, I'm just not seeing it. Sunday, May 11, 2008  Can you empathize, do you care? by Underground Panther in the Sky, Unknown News   Excerpt: Will you stand up for others, will you act upon the desire to protect the living beings in this world from those who abuse them? Or not? Big surprise: Republicans are spreading un-true smears by Max, Unknown News   Excerpt: Every single one of these hundreds of emails, ostensibly sent by dozens of different people, all come to my Republican-only email address -- which means they're either being sent by Republican Party workers, or (pretend this is a meaningful difference) Republican Party membership roles are sold, leased, or loaned to people who send these email lies. Friday, May 9, 2008  Why Hillary won't quit by William M., Unknown News   Excerpt: Hillary will remain in the race "until a nominee is selected." Can you guess how the math could work for her? Right. One man, one book depository, one magic bullet. Obama's plane could crash. He could suffer an embolism, fall down and hit his head, commit suicide and leave two goodbye notes like Deborah Jeane Palfrey... He could O.D. on heroin, he could be taken by aliens, he could be outed for something... maybe even something true-ish. Obama might eat a bad burrito, be bitten by a rabid dog, drown in his bathtub, or be hit by lightning! That's how Hillary wins. She hangs in JUST IN CASE. Anything could happen, and Hillary won't leave till the Fat Lady sings, because it ain't over 'till its over! Relentless propaganda on Iran by Marie K., Unknown News   Excerpt: Clearly it is easy for Gen. Petraeus, Sec. Rice, Defense Sec. Gates, and all of those unnamed sources to spew forth their accusations/propaganda against Iran etc. while providing no proof or in the case of the “Syrian reactor” altered/fake pictures (no cooling tower). On the other hand, those of us who care about the truth have to take time to find sources that debunk the propaganda -- AND, I don’t mean sources that have to be taken with a grain of salt or LOTS of them, either. So here is what I found. Tuesday, May 6, 2008  None of this seems real by Max, Unknown News   Excerpt: Two years into the so-called "Presidential campaign", for the very first time, a matter of actual political policy is being publicly discussed. But even this one policy that's allowed to be discussed is inane beyond belief -- whether to suspend a nearly-nothing gas tax to encourage more driving this summer ... when of course, (a) the proposal is idiotic and accomplishes nothing and (b) the election is scheduled long after summer is over, making the whole discussion even mooter than moot. Sunday, May 4, 2008  Bush regime rewards incompetent and dysfunctional corporations by Mr. Chuckles, Unknown News   Excerpt: Imagine a country with countless Paris Hiltons -- millionaires never tested by reality, never forced to dig deep and excel, never offered any incentive to improve. Which is pretty much what we have today: an upper class of wealthy bunglers who have too much time on their hands and want to run for office. Like George W. Bush, our inbred, water-brained, devo chuckle-monkey president. How did we get him? It is as if his father screwed a chimpanzee when the circus came to town! If not for the wealth and power of the Bush-Walker clan, Curious George W. would probably have ended up as an alcoholic, cokehead con-artist used-car salesman with a sub-prime mortgage in foreclosure. Blast from the past: Whip Inflation Now (WIN) by Juan P., Unknown News   Excerpt: Or in elementary terms, chum, the price of everything else must now rise if real estate and stock prices are not allowed to fall. Otherwise, real estate would not be economically viable. The audacity (and consequences) of truth by Chris M., Unknown News   Excerpt: It took being bombed to rubble for Japan and Germany to finally get over most of their race-based nationalism which the people rallied around for their identity. And it may take the same thing for this country to finally be brought into reality and out of its delusional little bubble of denial. 9/11 was just a shot across the bow. Wednesday, Apr. 30, 2008  Chicken Little saves the world from the Dogs of War by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News   Excerpt: Meanwhile, ever-greater chunks of sky were falling everywhere, burying cities and towns, and causing great consternation. The Dogs of War, Commerce, Industry and Finance continued to claim that the Terrorist Goats were behind the destruction and that the Illegal Sheep crossing the border were also a big part of the problem. Tuesday, Apr. 29, 2008  Why democracy does not matter right now by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News   Excerpt: Almost anything that substitutes local sources of goods and services for corporate ones extracts another drop of blood from the beast. It doesn't seem like very much at the time, but every effort to feed, clothe, house and care for ourselves that does not send money toward the center of the exploitive economy are blows that can, when taken cumulatively, weaken the beast to the point of harmlessness. Monday, Apr. 28, 2008  Making it harder for the speculators by Marie K., Unknown News   Excerpt: The more prices rise, and big profits are made, the more others invest, hoping for big returns. Look at the financial web sites: everyone and their mother is piling into commodities. ... The trouble is that if you are one of the 2.8 billion people, almost half the world’s population, who live on less than $2 a day, you may pay for these profits with your life. Sunday, Apr. 27, 2008  Next bubble: Food (and other necessary commodities) by Mahdi Abdul Finkelstein, Unknown News   Excerpt: Because governments no longer back their currencies with gold, increases in money supplies have resulted over the past several decades, which greatly exceed the growth in planetary production. Therefore, in the years following the implosion of the internet stock bubble and the real estate bubble, both of which had global reach, another bubble was "needed" by the "investors" managing the excess trillions of dollars. Problems & solutions with Yanquis & corporations by Marie K., Unknown News   Excerpt: The European Union has put pressure on and been negotiating with 77 countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and Pacific since 2002 to sign on to "Economic Partnership Agreements" (EPAs) -- sanctions were threatened if they didn’t sign. In general, this will result in local production in these countries being further exposed to big international corporations. Friday, Apr. 25, 2008  Obama's "get out the vote" emails delayed by Enduring in the East, Unknown News   Excerpt: Who is Comcast endorsing? Is some other ISP interfering? Is there a mole in the Obama camp? Have aliens messed with our satellite transmissions? Wednesday, Apr. 23, 2008  Endless war for endless profit by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News   Excerpt: Victory, in this setting, is the last thing desired, as it would mean an end to the flow of profit. Defeat and retreat, likewise, are unthinkable for the same reason. The business plan is endless war for endless profit. Freedom is for brave people, not for farm animals by Mr. Chuckles, Unknown News   Excerpt: Let's face it, the long and slow decline of America is well deserved. We are ignorant, lazy, fearful sheep who inherited a rich paradise and watched placidly as it was stolen and obliterated. Freedom is for brave people, not for farm animals. Tuesday, Apr. 22, 2008  Which numbers deserve our attention? by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News   Excerpt: Compassionate people recognize that the suffering that these criminal wars at home in the US is, in turn, dwarfed by the unbelievable suffering that these wars inflict on the people of the Middle East which will also echo down through generation after generation. Monday, Apr. 21, 2008  The mote in Hillary's eye by Hazel Burke, Unknown News   Excerpt: OK, so we know for a fact that Hillary Clinton is a chronic, serial, truth-avoider who lies frequently but is not actually very good at it, at least compared to her husband's skill as fabulousity and prevarication. It's a lie to say it's a mis-statement by Amber Perez, Unknown News   Excerpt: Basically, anyone making actual, real-life decisions involving money, property, liberty or happiness would be well advised to ignore television news completely. Even when they are right, they're wrong because their information is so dated that it is nearly impossible to use -- when they say buy houses that means that the richies are selling houses and short-selling banks! Sunday, Apr. 20, 2008  Without sexism, where would Hillary Clinton be? by Lloyd B., Unknown News   Excerpt: Hillary Clinton deserves the respect due any person with six years' experience in politics, with no apparent ideals, with no original ideas of consequence, with a track record supporting an idiotic war, and with a political agenda that can only be described as Hillary Clintonist. There is nothing, absolutely nothing in her life to suggest that she is of anything remotely approaching Presidential stature. A supersized stack of good advice by Pavel C., Unknown News   Excerpt: Eventually I realized that I needed to do work for which I already had skills and training, which would, even though I disliked it, pay be some ok money and use my abilities. And that meant moving back to Civilization, or at least, near a big city in California. United States of Denial by Don Nash, Unknown News Saturday, Apr. 19, 2008  A society that erects pedestals, and digs dungeons by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News   Excerpt: All our professions and institutions are now led and controlled by people whose only claim to superiority is their political cleverness and ruthlessness. This is what comes from idolizing wealth and fame, and being influenced by the lies that ambitious people use to entice and confuse us. The way out of the corner is start forming small, local groups where the true character and capacity of the membership can be accurately assessed. Democrats must be cautious by JR Mooneyham, Unknown News   Excerpt: If impeachment were feasible, I think the Democrats would have done it. Their razor-thin Congressional majority though -- diluted still further by Lieberman and a few others -- plus the Republican-dominated Supreme Court, and the Republican-owned mainstream media, would simply make a real impeachment effort on the part of Democrats worse than futile: it would likely help the mainstream media to hand the next election over to the Republicans in a landslide. A day at Blood Beach by Don Nash, Unknown News Friday, Apr. 18, 2008  Limbo debate: How low can these candidates go? by Penny Nichols, Unknown News   Excerpt: Both Clinton and Obama swore blood oaths not to raise taxes on those making less than $200,000 a year. FYI, that cap works out to $100 an hour. I don't think even Obama has measure the depths of bitterness and rage "out there" if he is considering people who earn $99 an hour "middle class". America has just out-evilled Evil itself by Chris D., Unknown News   Excerpt: Not only does your Congress, Democrats and Republicans alike, deign to openly dictate what Iraq's government will do while claiming it tastes freedom for the first time, they now force the Iraqi people to reimburse the military that carpet bombs entire city blocks for the fuel they expend in the process of raining death and terror upon them and have publicly declared that all aid Iraq received after being crushed beneath jack-booted heels was some undeserved kindness. How to destroy a great nation's economy by JR Mooneyham, Unknown News   Excerpt: In a nutshell, this is what the whole country of America has been doing to itself, via outsourcing and miscellaneous other wage depression schemes, for decades now. If we're not yet beyond the point of no return, we sure as hell must be close! Celebrating 60 years by Don Nash, Unknown News Thursday, Apr. 17, 2008  The destructive power of greed by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News   Excerpt: Eventually, as we now see, a corporate infrastructure of lobbying and public relations firms, wielding massive budgets for campaign "contributions" and espionage activities, becomes the true governmental power, and proceeds to systematically loot the ostensible governmental tax coffers. Thou shalt not criticize Israel for any reason by Don Nash, Unknown News Wednesday, Apr. 16, 2008  Less is more, and tarnished is better by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News   Excerpt: Please spare me from bigger, better, prettier, brighter, quicker, faster, cleaner, cooler, hotter, freer, slimmer, fitter, fancier, trendier and more of anything than I need to get through my day. Tuesday, Apr. 15, 2008  Will America become one huge tent city? by Sherri B., Unknown News   Excerpt: Just how close are we to the homeless that we help, but hope like hell we never to have to live their lives? What happens to us, the USA, as a family? Heckuva job, GMie! by Mr. Chuckles, Unknown News   Excerpt: As with many other things, GM was at an all time high shortly before Bush took office -- up over $90 a share. After 7+ years of our first MBA president, GM is down to $19 a share, and the only reason it is still alive (I'm guessing) is that they're hoping for a government bail-out. OR... the Bush Regime doesn't want to preside over the bankruptcy of General Motors. The new war of independence by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News   Excerpt: Once we begin to recognize each other as coming from a common humanity, we can begin again to knit together the kind of local communities that were the true motive force in our country's original War of Independence. We will not need to fight pitched battles in order to win this New War of Independence. All that will be needed is to survive the coming tumult and watch the unsustainable structure of oppression self-destruct around us. Motivating more terrorists by JR Mooneyham, Unknown News   Excerpt: Polls show that 6% of the American public thinks attacks in which civilians are targets are "completely justified." In Saudi Arabia, this figure is 4%. In Lebanon and Iran, it's 2%. ... But maybe if we bomb Iran, we can boost bin Laden's popularity over there to match what it is in America. Flags of our world by Don Nash, Unknown News Monday, Apr. 14, 2008  Treat Hillary Clinton respectfully by M.M., Unknown News   Excerpt: How would you feel if someone treated your mother the way Hillary has been trampled? There is a young woman, who loves her mother, who is watching you and others spit on her. Would you have your own daughters' heart broken that way? What's really reflected in Cheney's sunglasses by Don Nash, Unknown News   Excerpt: I know the truth, and me and Syd had us one fine joy ride out to the moon, and the moon is highly overrated. But the ride was cool as hell and there isn’t diddly I can do for those ‘detained’ alien types. I feel bad for them, but our fine government has work for them to do and things will be just fine until alien guys’ home-boys come looking for them. Sunday, Apr. 13, 2008  We are all trapped in The System by Hazel Burke, Unknown News   Excerpt: This has got to be one of those "crowd think" situations, otherwise known as Monkey See, Monkey Do, but where the monkeys are juggling lit sticks of dynamite. War on porn & attacking Hillary Clinton by Chris D., Unknown News   Excerpt: Once somebody gets it in their head that something is offensive to them, they get the urge to purge it from the face of the Earth and to Hell with anyone who doesn't share that sentiment. I get the idea that there are things we should shield are kids from but isn't this, y'know... stupid? Saturday, Apr. 12, 2008  Atlas shrugs, again by Mahdi Abdul Finkelstein, Unknown News   Excerpt: A few parasites are tolerable, but if the entire system is covered with heart worms, ticks, lice, bedbugs, viruses and oozing wounds, then no-one profits. And at that point, Atlas shrugs, and goes into self-defense mode, saving itself. Addressing the sub-prime crisis with pure BS by Chris M., Unknown News   Excerpt: This is all after the fact BS that sounds politically good but really does little to help. Someone needs to watch The Grapes of Wrath again and pay attention this time. What have we become? by Don Nash, Unknown News Friday, Apr. 11, 2008  Pukeworthy: Democrats blame Bush for Iraq quagmire by Hazel Burke, Unknown News   Excerpt: Democrats appear to have voted for continuing the war because they were afraid of being branded pacifist, isolationist, bin Laden-loving Defeatocrats. ... The Democrats are manipulative cynics in this battle, who purposely allowed America to be degraded to advance their own selfish ambitions for power and wealth. We expect that of Republicans and are not surprised. Of the Democrats many expected more ... Visit beautiful Israel by Don Nash, Unknown News Thursday, Apr. 10, 2008  Gen. David H. Petraeus -- stupid or a liar by Marie K., Unknown News   Excerpt: There is competition between those ethnic Americans and Britons and the Iraqis over who controls Iraq and its resources. Sometimes the Americans and the British bomb and attack the Shiites and sometimes the Sunnis, and sometimes the Arabs and sometimes the Kurds. Wednesday, Apr. 9, 2008  America has been completely punked by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News   Excerpt: One of the very painful realities that we will need to confront as we wake up to the consequences of our stupidity, is that we will need to abandon the stories that we have become accustomed to hearing about ourselves. Our enemies are not from abroad, not from somewhere far away, but live in our own communities. With some exceptions that need to be carefully proven, our enemies are those of us who have become rich while the rest of us have been becoming progressively poorer. Two rocks out of the ground by M.M., Unknown News   Excerpt: I realize now that a female candidate will always be too young or too old, too tall or too short, not pretty enough or too pretty. Men continue to visit all of their fear and insecurity onto women's bodies. We continually receive the message that a woman is incomplete without a man. We're looking at World War III by Nan R., Unknown News   Excerpt: Lacking any ability to defend itself from an American attack, Iran will do the next best thing (from its perspective): It'll launch missiles at Israel. ... Israel, of course, has nuclear weapons, and for all the propaganda about Iran's insane leadership, Israel's leadership is more obviously certifiable, and might well be willing to face the blowback -- literally and metaphorically -- from using nukes. Kill the messengers! by Don Nash, Unknown News Tuesday, Apr. 8, 2008  After the fighting in Basra + more US lies by Marie K., Unknown News   Excerpt: As for there being Iranian fighters in Iraq, as The Times of London reports US Gen. David Petraeus will say to Congress, Cole says that there have been Iranian pilgrims going to the sacred Shiite shrines, but the pilgrims have been recalled home and the pilgrimages halted. Cole adds that "a handful may have gotten caught up in the fighting," but for Iran to send Iranian troops or agents into Basra to undermine Iraqi government forces "on behalf of the Sadr Movement just strikes me as daft. It flies in the face of everything else we know about the relationship of these groups with Iran." Bottom-line thinking sinks North American economies by Chris D., Unknown News   Excerpt: We have more money but we get less out of it. Essentials are more expensive to buy. Food, clothing, medicine are all made at the lowest cost for the highest return; cheaply produced but expensive to buy. Services such as healthcare are poorly managed and the coverage of those services tends to suffer as cost becomes the bottom line rather than a patient's health. When it gets down to it the workings of our society make it so that we have little time to ourselves and even less time to enjoy it causing our physical and mental health to deteriorate quicker. We spend a lot of time trying to convince ourselves we have it better. Maybe it's about time we drop the ego and look at our lives objectively. No-one wants Monopoly money in real life by Chris M., Unknown News   Excerpt: The Fed knows, as does everyone else on Wall Street, that not only is the party nearly over, but there is a chance the building will be condemned as well. They are playing Monopoly without buildings or properties and very little money, trying to con the guy next to them and hoping no-one finds out what is really going on. Monday, Apr. 7, 2008  We are all insurgents at heart by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News   Excerpt: The truth is that if you want to fight a whole people, the only possible avenue to "Victory" is total, or near total, genocide, such as was pursued in the American Indian Wars. It is a mark of social progress that such openly genocidal campaigns of conquest have become unacceptable to the conscience of the world. Now, aims of conquest must be pursued covertly under the cover of "bringing democracy" or "fighting terrorism." Torturing politicians by Don Nash, Unknown News Sunday, Apr. 6, 2008  Congress has a new deal ... for corporations by Mr. Chuckles, Unknown News   Excerpt: The more we spend on the military and police state the less secure the country is, and the sooner the police state will collapse. I believe China is more free now than America. They are certainly more capitalistic than we are. Saturday, Apr. 5, 2008  Rockefellers and Bushes, Nixons and Kissingers by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News   Excerpt: The only real significant player in the drama is the sleeping giant of the mass of ordinary people. As long as they keep taking the soporific of material dependency on concentrations of power the story line is stuck. We are on the verge of the point in the story where the giant wakes. That is the drama. Equivalence! by Don Nash, Unknown News Friday, Apr. 4, 2008  Grass roots censorship by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News   Excerpt: Freedom of speech is fundamental. It is like the musculature of a free society. If we don't use it, we lose it. As controversy becomes more frightening, and speaking your mind becomes more of a risk, it becomes more important for ordinary citizens to exercise the right of speaking our minds forthrightly and cogently. So what if arguments ensue? At least the right to argue has been defended. Garbage in, garbage out by JR Mooneyham, Unknown News   Excerpt: Previous Republican-dominated Congresses usually resisted or defied Republican Presidents on at least some matters of importance. But not the last bunch: instead, they marched in a Nazi-like lockstep on practically every issue with the President. The most difference they ever displayed was saying something in opposition in public -- but then turning around and doing exactly what Bush wanted in legislation. Just the facts, ma'am by Z, Unknown News   Excerpt: When you add these incredibly fraudulent rip-offs to the fact that the highest levels of the Bush Regime ordered torture against all international law -- laws which the US itself used to hang Germans and Japanese after WWII -- the conclusion must be that our government is run by a criminal syndicate, like the Mafia except they control the whole country, including the money and secret police. Tuesday, Apr. 1, 2008  Who benefits from US-style 'capitalism'? by Rob L., Unknown News   Excerpt: The gap between rich and poor has grown bigger each year, and our unions are a pale shadow of their former selves. Who benefits? Not me. Monday, 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? Sunday, 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. Friday, 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. Thursday, 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. Tuesday, 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? Sunday, 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. Saturday, 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. Friday, 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. Tuesday, 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. Saturday, 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! Wednesday, Mar. 12, 2008  America's just desserts 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 desserts -- 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. Tuesday, Mar. 11, 2008  Liar, liar by Don Nash, Unknown News Sunday, 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. Saturday, 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. Thursday, 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. Wednesday, 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 Monday, 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. Sunday, 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. Saturday, 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. Friday, 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. Thursday, 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. Tuesday, 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? Monday, Feb. 25, 2008  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. 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. 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. Saturday, 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. Friday, 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. Wednesday, 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. Tuesday, 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. Monday, 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. Friday, 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. Thursday, 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. Tuesday, 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? Saturday, 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. Friday, 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. Thursday, 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 Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008  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. 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? Hillary sings her way to genocide! by Don Nash, Unknown News Sunday, 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. Friday, 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 ... Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008  Fairy tales: The dreams of the oppressed by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News   Excerpt: To the extent that we remain asleep and dreaming, disconnected from the reality of consequences of our dreaming, then we are indeed lost. To the extent that we are willing to wake up and look upon our dreams with compassion and a degree of self-deprecating humor, we can choose those to dream those dreams that actually serve the interests of ourselves in the broader context of the rest of humanity, and the rest of life on earth, and achieve a sustainable life that is full of the vividness of both joy and sorrow. Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008  An open letter to His Majesty, King Abdullah II Ibn Al Hussein, the 43rd generation direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) by Don Nash, Unknown News   Excerpt: Your Kingliness, I'm not trying to be insulting here. I'm trying hard to understand how it is that Israelis can kill Palestinians with impunity and the world does ABSOLUTELY nothing to stop the massacre. Monday, Jan. 28, 2008  The Devil's Political Dictionary by Chris M., Unknown News   Excerpt: Liberal: An upper middle class white person who exhibits a conscience when it is not personally inconvenient. Likes Blacks, Asians, Latinos and other minorities son long as they think, act, talk, dress and behave like upper middle class white people. Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008  Bush-Democrat tax rebates: Worse than Guantanamo by Lee C., Unknown News   Excerpt: This is actually worse than Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib because it demonstrates soulless disregard of our very own citizens. And it convicts not just George Bush but Congress itself, especially the Democrats, who couldn't vote YES fast enough. Saturday, Jan. 26, 2008  Connecting the dots and finding bad cops by Lon Garm, Unknown News   Excerpt: Just for grins I decided to run a Google News search for officer arrested OR sentenced OR indicted OR jailed (bearing in mind that the diligent researcher would repeat the search, substituting various synonyms such as "cop", "sheriff", "deputy", "agent", etc.). Only 30,000 hits came up for the most recent 30 day period, and of those, at most 30% involved officers being arrested etc. instead of doing the arresting. Friday, Jan. 25, 2008  It begins in your heart by Hazel Burke, Unknown News   Excerpt: It is all OK, whether you live for an eon or a day, because it is always just one day -- each day. And when you find or re-find your True Heart, when you remember your true desires again, you will also find true allies, of good and true heart to join you. That is the way to win... everything: It begins in your Heart. Threatening national suicide by Chris M., Unknown News   Excerpt: This is the very thing the powers that be are afraid of, to their bones. This is why they will go to any lengths to prop it up. Even threatening national suicide. Not an attack on out country per se, but an attack on our financial and business sectors. Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008  To obey, or not to obey by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News   Excerpt: To obey, or not to obey: that is the question / Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The neo-cons, Cheney, and Bush / Or to take arms against a sea of problems / And, by opposing, end them? Monday, Jan. 21, 2008  Why people still waste their time is a mystery to me by Leon Fisher, Unknown News   Excerpt: In every election for the last thirty-five years, Americans have voted for candidates who promised to act in their behalf, but all that the American voter has gotten are empty promises, empty pockets, and a mountain of debt. No-one forces you to buy junk by Kathy Fisher, Unknown News   Excerpt: Be a citizen first and then a cautious consumer second. You empower yourself when you hold on to your money and think before you spend. Bottom line? You! You send a message to the CHEAP LABOR CROWD when you refuse to buy unsafe products, and be a part of the corruption you say you're so opposed to. Friday, Jan. 18, 2008  On the comfort of blaming the victims by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News   Excerpt: To whatever extent we are able to salvage something after this criminal carnival (that the home loan scam is just a small part of) burns itself out, our success will depend on our ability to separate the sheep from the goats in our perception of what happened, and a willingness to extend our sympathy and help to those in our society that have been victimized the most. Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008  This isn't torture, it's a walk in the park on a sunny day by Don Nash, Unknown News Going down by Kathy & Leon Fisher, Unknown News   Excerpt: No-one forced people into equity loans and second mortgages. They loved the idea that they could use their homes as credit cards for vacations and lavish home improvements and yes new cars... No-one forced people to sign on the dotted line on a RISKY subprime loan. People believed what they wanted to believe when they were not asked to put down how much money they made or told not to worry, alarms should have gone off in their heads warning them if it does not feel right or sound right, don't sign. Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2008  On the dominance of the clever by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News   Excerpt: This country began in an atmosphere of mistrust of authority, an unwillingness to bend the knee to one's "betters," and a collective commitment to preventing destructive concentrations of power. But now, our obedience to authority has gotten us to this spot. Monday, Jan. 14, 2008  There's big money in poverty by JS Magruder, Unknown News   Excerpt: We seem to be (as a nation) suffering a collective case of misplaced hostility. It isn't the poor taking your money. It isn't the immigrant family down the street taking your job. Your jobs were sent abroad by the people representing you in Washington. Your taxes are torturing and killing people the world over. Your hard-earned money is funding the building of more prisons to house petty criminals, and for the police helicopter looking for God only knows what. The people who are making you work longer hours for less pay aren't the poor asking for change on a street corner. The poor didn't jack up your credit card rates to what any other country in the world would consider usury. The guy sitting on the park bench with everything he owns in the world stuffed into a paper bag, with maggot-infested unhealed flesh wounds -- that guy didn't sell you the interest-only mortgage. Go ahead, pat yourself on the back for walking past him as though he didn't exist and make you feel better by mumbling about "services being available." Sunday, Jan. 13, 2008  Weird events in Wendover, Utah by Don Nash, Unknown News   Excerpt: Okay, so the scoop as explained to me is that the freaking spooks are training in populated urban areas and using civilians and civilian traffic as targets. The spookies are laser washing selected trucks, cars, civilians, and then they're calling in air strikes. On United States citizens! Holy freaking mother of god and Mary in the very early morning! The goddamned United States military is using us as their freaking subjects in their twisted and barbaric war gaming. Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008  I'm afraid of writing this by Chris D., Unknown News   Excerpt: Security will be tightened at US bases abroad in ways that disregard or even threaten local governments and international law, followed by the outright annexation of the countries that contain them. The UN at that point will have had enough and launch economic sanctions against the US for the first time. The US will respond militarily and open war will break out. A reign of unbridled and incomparable terror will encompass the globe not at the hands of Islamic extremists but at the hands of the one true rogue nation. (Sorry, I call 'em as I see 'em.) The ides of idolatry, or ... A song for Huckabee! by Don Nash, Unknown News   Excerpt: "People of planet earth, you've got it all wrong! You're not supposed to hate one another. You're not supposed to kill one another. You're not supposed to spread lies as gospel and you're sure as hell not supposed to listen to anyone that would advise you otherwise. The political demagogues that would cloak themselves in religion are worse than the hypocrites that bomb and kill using the name of the Most High. Knock that crap off!" Monday, Jan. 7, 2008  I needs to kill me some more peoples! by Don Nash, Unknown News Sunday, Jan. 6, 2008  Deconstructing the "brand name" al-Qaeda® by Marie K., Unknown News   Excerpt: Has al-Qaeda® been a label that is useful for the US government and other governments that also use it? First, it aids countries interested in gaining greater control over their own citizens given those governments' claiming to be "protecting" them as they take away their rights. It has also been useful for governments that carry out false flag operations and arrest Muslims worldwide -- perhaps for more "bounty monies" or some other benefit. It could also come in handy if there is a second type of al-Qaeda® made up of CIA/other intelligence agencies' agents who serve as infiltrators and agents sent to entrap people. Surviving the Great Depression of 2008 by Leon Fisher, Unknown News   Excerpt: Just think of it, the Great Depression of '08 deluxe refrigerator carton will not only keep you and yours dry, but will bring all your family members closer together, just like the old days. ... Saturday, Jan. 5, 2008  The US is being scuttled by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News   Excerpt: Unfortunately, in these sorts of situations there cannot be a happy ending. The best we can hope for, in the wake of decades of accepting a false understanding about the politics of our country, is a very painful transition from pride to punishment. Friday, Jan. 4, 2008  The end of a nightmare of delusion by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News   Excerpt: This episode of species insanity that is coming to an end has been based on the willingness of individuals to remain as children, to forego advancement to adult status, to arrest our intellectual and moral development for the sake of being part of an ever larger collective where only a few individuals are allowed to assume adult roles. What is not growth is death. We have chosen to see to the growth of our dominator cultures by virtue of piling heaps of our own corpses on a bonfire that keeps fewer and fewer of us warm. Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2008  Know that you are being lied to by Zebra, Unknown News   Excerpt: By spreading the manure real thick "they" create the necessary uncertainty in enough peoples' minds to prevent mass action that would destabilize their next scams. Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2008  My Marxist friends always make sense! by Kathy Fisher, Unknown News   Excerpt: Now they lie again and say they are fight TERRORISM. No, it's more conquest. More stealing other nations resources. It's capitalism with a big jackbooted helping of in your face Fascism. Monday, Dec. 31, 2007  Got hope? Nope. by Don Nash, Unknown News   Excerpt: We've got about one more year of the Bush regime. Scary as the thought might be, the pending presidential election is even more scary. America is offered little choice for leadership. Clinton? McCain? Obama? Romney? Huckabee? Oh, mommy! Contemplating a catastrophic future with a sense of confidence rather than despair by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News   Excerpt: So, I would say cheer up, we have nothing to lose in the coming catastrophe but a set of bad habits that the species will have to shake off if it is to survive. Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007  Teach the children, Thou shalt not kill by Don Nash, Unknown News Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2007  American economy hijacked by corruption by Leon Fisher, Unknown News   Excerpt: The unwillingness of our elected representatives to act upon the coming economic disaster can only be defined as treason, pure and simple. This sellout of the American worker began in earnest with Ronald Reagan firing the air traffic controllers during his term the White House, and it has continued under the subsequent administrations of GHW Bush and Bill Clinton. Satan himself is preferable to Hillary Clinton by Pavel C., Unknown News   Excerpt: The Democratic Party sought to trade off our liberties, our Constitution, our national wealth, and our good name in the world for political expediency. They really ought to be punished if they attempt to propel Sen Mrs Clinton into the Oval Office. Sunday, Dec. 23, 2007  A Bush & Cheney Christmas story by Don Nash, Unknown News Saturday, Dec. 22, 2007  A stink on the White House by Hazel Burke, Unknown News   Excerpt: There is nothing to prevent a Democratic president from exercising the same illegal, unconstitutional and tyrannical powers asserted by the Bush government. In fact, since the Democratic Congress served as towel-holders and enablers of a manifestly criminal Republican president, what leads any of us to suppose that a Democratic Congress would enforce the law under a president of their own party? How naïve! Let me know how that works out... Friday, Dec. 21, 2007  Americans scale the heights of naïveté by The Canadian, Unknown News   Excerpt: I continue to be amazed by the fact that at this point in America's history its Citizens are the only 1st-world people who truly and deeply believe their own propaganda. Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2007  Hey, where were you? by Kathy Fisher, Unknown News   Excerpt: The recession has been here for years. Again most people are willing to still believe the garbage, the spin and lies the newspapers and sorry to say their government is selling them. It still makes them feel good and at ease, allowing themselves to be fooled again and again. Monday, Dec. 17, 2007  The death of democracy by Don Nash, Unknown News Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2007  If first you don't scream by Kathy Fisher, Unknown News   Excerpt: First they came and placed a leash on me. I didn't complain because it was long enough for me to still go out on walks, just so long as I didn't go too far, and I could speak when I wanted to. Tell the dying to go away by Chris D., Unknown News   Excerpt: No matter what problems I have with Canadian healthcare I will say this: We would not make a man choose which finger he could afford to save. We would not shove a woman in a taxi and drop her off frightened and disoriented in a bad part of town. We would not refuse a doctor's referral to any kind of specialist. We would not attempt to block medical testing or imaging. We would not try to convince someone with a tumor that they do not, in fact, have a tumor. We would not deny a life-saving bone marrow transplant. We would not tell a woman to take her dying baby to a different hospital. Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007  Talking empty heads on radio by Leon Fisher, Unknown News   Excerpt: It is obvious from listening to these Wall Street shills on WABC that they have their marching orders from their political and corporate masters to try and minimize the unfolding financial debacle to discourage a run on the banks and divestment in the stock Market. Sunday, Dec. 9, 2007  Fire! The theater really is on fire! by Mr Chuckles, Unknown News   Excerpt: The very idea of the government rewriting private contracts, even with just verbal arm-twisting (and unspecified threats) has the bond markets shaken up. If contracts are broken now then who is to say that more contracts won't be unilaterally rewritten later? Friday, Dec. 7, 2007  The Bush-Paulson plan by Mr Chuckles, Unknown News   Excerpt: Everything but the kitchen sink will be thrown at the problem -- because rising prices are ignored by the Feds, and profits are private, but falling prices are alarming to the Feds and get socialized. Utter and absolute hopelessness in America by Leon Fisher, Unknown News   Excerpt: There is little to be hopeful about. The money pouring into Washington from the powerful lobbies and special interest groups has trumped any real representation which may still exist for the common man in America. The Washington politicians and their corporate benefactors hold the citizens of this country in contempt and are working to remove any influence which they still have left. Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2007  Loony legislation for 2008 by Don Nash, Unknown News   Excerpt: America's Congress will legislate that every man, woman, and child think exactly as Congress thinks. Wait a minute -- this just in, Congress already did that. Never mind. Monday, Dec. 3, 2007  Learn to live on less by Ace, Unknown News   Excerpt: Our only conceivable exercise of protest at this point, probably worthless individually but possibly meaningful collectively, is economic boycott. This concept is not new (i.e.: Boston Tea Party). This dictatorship, like all others, is sponsored solely by Big Business: by Wal-Mart, Exxon, AT&T, Citibank and McDonald's and their evil ilk. Corporate Amerika benefits greatly from a fearful, totalitarian state, and they count on us citizens to never make the connection between our slovenly consumer habits and the fueling of a repressive poilitical atmoshphere. Every time we buy gas from Exxon, buy a Whopper at Burger King, pay for our credit card at Bank of America, watch a crappy movie on Showtime, troll MySpace for kicks or play with our little AT&T cellphones, we are feeding the monster that imprisons us. The further adventures of Genocide-Man! by Don Nash, Unknown News Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2007  My take on the current Depressing situation by Leon Fisher, Unknown News   Excerpt: With everything going wrong, thanks to the greedy, disloyal traitors of Wall St and Washington who caused this mess to begin with, it is only right that the devious plans of these running dogs of Globalism should fail as well. So here's the plan by Don Nash, Unknown News Monday, Nov. 26, 2007  Yup, that'll do it by Don Nash, Unknown News