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    The Grand Illusion, Part II

    September 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Corporations and Industry, Lobbying, Media, Politics, taxes

    Part II — Who is telling all those lies…and why?
    They met on the mall in Washington, that renowned place for great assemblies. They were baby-boomers and beyond and overwhelmingly white. (Maybe when you call a Liberal African-American President, raised by white grandparents a ‘racist” as Glenn Beck did, you may turn away people of [...]

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    The Grand Illusion

    August 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Corporations and Industry, Culture, Lobbying, Media, Politics

    Part I – Looming disaster and how we got here
    The Tea Party Movement is neither a movement nor has it anything to do with the traditions of freedom represented by the American Revolution. It is in fact, ironically, about the impulse of an uneducated and badly led society to permit the restriction of its own [...]

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    Restoring Honor? How About Restoring Sanity?

    August 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Corporations and Industry, Culture, Media, Politics, Wall Street

    It is probably not a good idea to give any publicity to this inane plan of Glenn Beck’s to hold a “Restoring Honor” meeting at the Washington Mall but it is an appropriate starting point.
    Glenn Beck is probably the most vocal and radical–some, many, say crazy–commentator on the Obama Administration’s policies. He literally has [...]

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    Creating Jobs in the United States

    August 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Health Care, Labor, Media, Politics, jobs

    There are several problems with the current jobs situation and those are in addition to the fact that one out of approximately 8 people you see walking down the street is either unemployed or has only a part-time job. Of course, for some people, the idea of a part-time job is difficult to imagine, as [...]

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    Disciples of Fear

    August 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Media, Politics

    Beware of the Age of Fear.
    Not the dark, unreasoning fear, the fear of the unknown, the fear of poverty, destitution and calamitous disaster. No, not that fear. Not even one, all-encompassing fear—not the phobic kind of fear that paralyzes every movement.
    No…we are not talking about that age-old, traditional fear…the fear of hell fire [...]

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    The Rich Are Winning

    August 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Culture, Media, Politics

    When we look at the past year and a half since President Obama and his staff have come to office, we can only shake our heads and wonder.
    We wonder whether the United States of America is headed for its final hour, for an era of disgrace and shame and stupidity beyond the fall of [...]

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    The “R” Word

    August 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Capitalism, Human Rights, Media, Politics, Populism

    In 1917, after generations of serfdom, oppression, starvation and genocide, the people of Czarist Russia took matters into their own hands. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, transported through Eastern Europe into Russia on a sealed train brought the remedy to the problems of all the peasants…organization and force. He brought a system of organization to establish a [...]

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    The Neocons

    August 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Health Care, Lobbying, Media, Politics, Science & Technology, Wall Street, taxes

    When the current American Right Wing propaganda machine heats up it is very difficult to sift through the lies and the deliberate distractions to go directly to the facts. There are a dozen obfuscations along the way. And not merely for the overview of the last ten years, but for each single affront to American [...]

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    The Current Common Wisdom Is Wrong

    July 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Health Care, Lobbying, Media, Wall Street, jobs

    We often refer to the “common wisdom” in society, the general knowledge passed on by word of mouth locally, regionally and eventually expressed in print or on television…and after which people say…oh, yeah, that makes sense.
    The fact is that the common wisdom often works because the underlying rules are pretty clear in most situations. [...]

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    Wall Street Journal: Unemployment Benefits Are Bad for America

    July 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Media, Politics, Wall Street

    In a recent article entitled “Stimulating Unemployment” the Wall Street Journal inadvertently showed its true colors. Black. They would like us all to wear black as a symbol of the death of the Middle Class which they are applauding and encouraging at every turn.
    It is quite (more than) probable that it is the work [...]

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    Net Neutrality–Free Speech on the Internet

    July 7th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Courts and the Law, Economics, Media, Politics, Science & Technology

    Someone asked recently, “What can I do?” when it comes to issues of political and economic power being used as a wedge or leverage against the average American.
    Sometimes there is very little anyone can do. For instance, the Supreme Court recently made several rulings setting back established law 60 or 70 years. It [...]

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    Expansion, Not Austerity

    July 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Corporations and Industry, Economics, Health Care, Human Rights, Lobbying, Media, Politics, Wall Street, jobs, taxes, wars and militarism

    We now have a Presidential Commission to make recommendations about the Reagan-Bush-Bush $13 trillion deficit that was created by cutting revenues in half with tax cuts for the rich, while continuing Republican spending and starting two wars.
    Of course, it is an absurd idea that we must all gather in hushed tones around former Reagan-Republican [...]

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    The Disturbing Nonsense of the Powerful Right Wing Media

    June 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Entertainment, Media, Politics

    The Right Wing media has an overwhelming advantage over the commentary that comes from the Left. First of all, 90% of all radio programming that involves commentary is Right Wing commentary. That is, factually, 91% of all radio talk programming or commentary is identified as conservative talk radio. They don’t try to hide that [...]

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    Budget Cuts–Coming After Your Social Security

    June 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Capitalism, Economics, Lobbying, Media, Politics, Wall Street, jobs, taxes, wars and militarism

    It is time to pay attention to the Peterson Commission. And you had better pay attention and tell your friends and have them tell their friends. Because the Peterson Commission is coming to get your Social Security. Not yours…yours. Yes, you there, the relatively young person who is about to start gathering funds to retire.
    Unless [...]

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    “Please, Sir, May I Have Another!”

    June 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Labor, Lobbying, Media, Politics, jobs, taxes

    The Republicans in Congress have their paddles out and are ready, if we let them, to make us walk the line again, while the Neocon frat boys in the Chamber of Commerce, in Congress and on Wall Street deliver a good spanking like the one they handed the country in 2007-2008.
    Yes, these cartoon [...]

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