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Following Right Wing political theology

Faith based politics where you have to believe fervently the dogma handed down by the High Priests of Capital… But according to their gospels of greed, there has never actually been any revolution where wealth has been redistributed to the … Continue reading

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Joe Stack’s Piper Cherokee Manifesto

It’s getting so you can’t fly a plane into a federal office building and hope somebody will finally find your website. Though engineer Joseph Stack left an online statement to explain his last act of desperation against the IRS, it … Continue reading

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Deficit truths meet truth deficiency

So, I heard different stories when I was a kid, then started to research them later, about what pulled America out of the Great Depression. One theory was that the “Alphabet Administration” With the REA, TVA, CCC, WPA etc pulled … Continue reading

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William Blum – Anti-Empire Report

Here’s William Blum’s latest essay, on Lincoln Gordon, Brazil, Cuba, and the 2009 Nobel Laureate, reprinted from www.killinghope.org. THE ANTI-EMPIRE REPORT By William Blum, January 6, 2009 The American elite Lincoln Gordon died a few weeks ago at the age … Continue reading

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Annie Leonard versus the people who brought you Enron and Goldman Sachs

COLORADO COLLEGE- Environmentalist Annie Leonard of THE STORY OF STUFF visits CC’s Packard Hall. Here’s an inescapably blunt video she’s made in advance of the climate summit in Copenhagen, called The Story of Cap & Trade, where Leonard looks at … Continue reading

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Tempest in a Tea-Party?

NYC 9/11 trial upsetting to Republicans, why? If the guys are guilty or even if they’re not they’ll be convicted. Do they really believe that a New York jury would be “liberal” in any way? Or the NYPD or the … Continue reading

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Thunderous Silence From The Right…

When Glenn Beck, Darling Boychild of the Right Wing Lunatic Fringe, allowed an equally demented guest, former Osama bin Laden hunter extraordinaire Michael F. Scheuer, to say that America needed another 9/11, this time with WMDs, in order to force … 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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Who not to blame for failed bailout

COLORADO SPRINGS- We held posters that read SEIZE THE FED, JAIL NOT BAIL-OUT, FORECLOSE ON WALLSTREET, NO REWARD FOR HIGH RISK, and of course NO BUSH BAILOUT. When we got rebuttals, it went like this: “Why do you bring Bush … Continue reading

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AIG and Washington Mutual soon to follow Lehman Brothers down the drain?

To put things in perspective, it helps to know that Lehman Brothers holdings were 10 times the value of Enron’s, a company that also fell into bankruptcy amidst scandal. But the collapse of the American economy is not over yet, … Continue reading

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Bob Bowman Take Back USA Patriot Tour

Dr. Bob Bowman, a national security authority and former Director of Star Wars under Presidents Ford & Carter will be speaking on the topics of “The Unseen Realities in Washington D.C.” and the State of Our Nation. If you’re looking … Continue reading

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Kurt Vonnegut goes

M and I just read Harrison Bergeron together two nights ago. I remembered the story from high school, where we also read Slaughterhouse Five to my father’s consternation. I like to think it was just the language he objected to. … Continue reading

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Gangster Capitalism

When we watch the likes of an Alan Dershowitz or a Donald Rumsfield pontificating on the US government’s supposed need to use torture, even as they in the same breath deny that torture is torture or that they are advocating … Continue reading

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Everything Has Changed, Nothing Has Changed

The Corporate Party of Damage Control has won a stunning victory over the Corporate Party of Total Corruption! Liberals are dancing and shouting, ‘Down With Fascism!’, all the while ignoring all the cooperation that is being talked about by these … Continue reading

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Kenneth Lay sightings

He may not turn up at Burger Kings or any of Elvis’s haunts, but I have no doubt that Enron CEO Kenneth Lay will turn up one of these days. I offer no evidence at all except to speculate about … Continue reading

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Enron blaming the victims

Enron super-con man, alleged, Jeff Skilling, explained today that the Enron bubble need never have burst if only investors had held their confidence in Enron’s outrageous marketplace success. On paper. I recently saw a presentation by one of the authors … Continue reading

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