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Fukishima aka Japan’s Chenyobl… and what does it mean for Colorado?

Well, it’s heating up. With the easiest way to measure and describe “radiation” : Heat. Temperature. Caloric Index. Right now it’s at the level to actually light concrete on fire. I was going to subtitle The Japan Syndrome but that … Continue reading

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Another FOX brainwash session

They’re reporting the mine collapse in China as being a failure of the Communist economic system, and just not pointing out that it’s CAPITALIST deregulation that caused it, just like the mine collapses in New Zealand, Chile, Peru, West Virginia…. … Continue reading

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Capital = Job creation, as explained by CenturyLink formerly Qwest formerly SW Bell

and somewhere in there a brief fantasy relationship with Yahoo as an internet service provider and a general screwing to the taxpayers of the City of Irving and Dallas county being thrown in… but I once more digress. CenturyLink “absorbed” … Continue reading

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“as long as it keeps us safe”

Today the big story is that it’s September 9th. Whoop di diddly doo. Also, there was an alert which caused Washing Tundy Sea and New Dork to be, how shall I say it, under no-rights martial law. And they got … Continue reading

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It’s official. We’re screwed.

I didn’t want to post anything about this, not here, guess it’s my Irish part of my heritage not wanting to speak the name of the devil. But the reactors in Japan are now officially out of control. What makes … Continue reading

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Happy 18th Re-Birthday, to me…

It was 18 years ago last Friday that I woke up as a healthy, badly underpaid and moderately radicalized minimum wage Construction Laborer and 5 minutes before quiting and pay time (they didn’t pay me either) was reborn as a … Continue reading

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Flow of oil into Gulf “more than was reported”

What a news flash! except the reports have an ugly habit of adding another digit to the estimated flow. That multiplies by TEN. And this is today’s report. Meanwhile, the head of MMS, the “Mineral extraction lease” division of Bureau … Continue reading

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Well well well WellPoint…

My my my… WellPoint Inc, Health Insurance company, is raising its rates by 39% –Nothing to see here, citizen, keep moving, nothing to see here. The Tea Baggers will insist that it has absolutely nothing to do with the fact … Continue reading

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Michael Moore CAPITALISM postscript

From Michael Moore: “15 Things Every American Can Do Right Now:” > Friends, It’s the #1 question I’m constantly asked after people see my movie: “OK — so NOW what can I DO?!” You want something to do? Well, you’ve … Continue reading

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How Stupid do they have to be?

You remember, if you have been paying attention, that mini-controversy a couple of months ago where all the Corporate Sucks were calling us STUPID and/or CRAZY for daring to suggest that a commercial extolling WalMart and Halls Cough Drops being … Continue reading

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Ground Zero for The Empire’s Collapse- Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation?

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation or DTCC is possibly Ground Zero for the US Empire’s potential coming economic collapse, because it is the primary and dominant insuring company that guarantees pay outs for those who hold junk stocks, if … Continue reading

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Did Bush cause the financial crisis?

Did Bush cause the financial crisis? is the question that the BBC’s North America Business Correspondent in New York, Greg Wood briefly explores and his conclusion is not surprising. Here is a summation of his argument. ‘Deregulation started long before … Continue reading

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Cabinet candidate Bill Richardson was clean enough to run for president?

Doesn’t it strike you as a bit odd, that Arizona governor Bill Richardson withdraws his name from consideration for the Secretary of Commerce because of some unseemly quid pro quo scheme, yet it hadn’t stopped him from running for president? … Continue reading

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Republicans admit! Not-Joe the Not-Plumber Welfare Fraud!!

They’re calling it persecution and retaliation for standing up and basically Lying His Ass Off for McCain… But there is a closed investigation by the Ohio welfare officials. The only way there could be an investigation by the agency is … Continue reading

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Wall Street fleecing goes into hyperdrive

The Great American Swindle. $1T Bail out plan for Wall St. would give absolute power to Treasury Secretary Paulson, his decisions on how to spend the money would not be reviewable by Congress, or any court of law. This, after … Continue reading

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a nice email fundraiser to help out those poor Wall Street LOSERS!!

Credit where it’s due, one of my Democratic friends posted this on alfrankenweb.com, username is JPZenger, after a Revolutionary War era Journalist from New York. Enjoy and forward to all, friend and foe alike. From: Minister of the Treasury Paulson … Continue reading

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Alaskan anti-Palin rally drew record numbers, CoSprings rally not so many…

as a baseball game. One in which there is no Pennant chance or pennant impact. The Rockies on Tuesday night drew a crowd of 25,000. which is two and a half times as many as turned out for the McCain … Continue reading

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Invisible Hand Strikes Again…

Investment banking Big 5 down to Big 2, DOW down 300 at opening bell, Republicans trying to spin how the unfettered Capitalism they so proudly and loudly promote just bit them, and by the way… The Whole Rest Of The … Continue reading

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Obama is not “The One”

Barack Obama defrauded the primary voters by campaigning as the “candidate of change,” then — as soon as he had the required number of delegates — he suddenly became the “candidate of same-old politics as usual.” You might as well … Continue reading

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John Edwards Fathers Bat Boy, Mother is Space Alien!

Nurse! Confused old man camplains, saying surge started almost a year before it did, and that it protected a man who was actually assassinated. [video] Remember: McCain had a “love child” with a black prostitute! National Enquirer claims John Edwards … Continue reading

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Global economic rapists are at it again

Why protest the G8 Summit July 7-9? Those hoodlums always look so determined. Here’s the rationale by the Emergency Exit Collective: The 2008 G8 on Hokkaido, a Strategic Assessment Emergency Exit Collective Bristol, Mayday, 2008 The authors of this document … Continue reading

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Bush does math the same way he does English…

Like “nukular” or “is our children learning” Take for instance, the lies told to get us into Iraq errr Iran errrr D) all of the above. The crazy dictator who was poised to attack his neighbors, the threat to world … Continue reading

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Industrial Society and Its Future

Unabomber Ted Kaczynski on how to get published (paragraph 96):   “If we had never done anything violent and had submitted the present writings to a publisher, they probably would not have been accepted. … In order to get our … Continue reading

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