Yellowstone – Benzene, Cancer, and Accountability

Another toxic spill took place into the Yellowstone River on January 17 of this year. It was not the first. An earlier break took place several years ago. The break occurred, according to Bridger Pipeline, LLC, at 10a.m. The company shut down the pipeline at 11am. It is in the first hour after a break the most toxic materials escape. This includes Benzene, a carcinogen which may cause cancer. Bridger announced only 300 – 1,200 oil barrels had been spilled into the riber. State estimates the spill as 50,000 US gallons... Read article

Wyoming Passes Regulation Freedom Amendment

“I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution….. taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing.” – Thomas Jefferson Many are unaware that it was action by 2/3 of the states which helped force Congress to propose, and pass, the Bill of Rights. This exercise of power by the states fell into disuse and America moved toward a Federal government which exercised far more power than originally envisioned by our Founders. Today, when many are looking for ways to curb... Read article

Corporations Make Out Like Bandits

What if Koch Industries offered burial insurance as a benefit for temporary employees doing clean up on toxic spills, a common need in the petroleum industry? You might think, well at least they are being given something! Wait. Let’s consider for a moment what happened to the low level employees who cleaned up the Valdez Spill which took place on Prince William Sound, Alaska, March 24, 1989. According to Susan Shaw, a toxicologist, these cleanup workers have all died. This gave them a life span of 52 years when the... Read article

Bowling, Bread and Economics

Sir Flinders Petrie discovered bowling artifacts in an Egyptian tome dating the game to 3200 B. C. in the 1930s. The game was being played in Germany in 300 A. D. and popular in England in 1366 A. D. English, Dutch and German settlers brought their own variations of the game to America. Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle awakens to the sound of “crashing ninepins.” in 1819. Arguably, the first permanent American bowling place, for lawn bowling, was in New York’s Battery area, now in the heart of... Read article

When ‘Change’ Delivers More of The Same

‘Wag the Dog’ is an expression which denotes, “to purposely divert attention from what would otherwise be of greater importance, to something else of lesser significance. By doing so, the lesser-significant event is catapulted into the limelight, drowning proper attention to what was originally the more important issue.” Now, the Dog has been Wagged. Feel better? If you were voting for someone with an R beside their name you probably feel good. If you went for the big D, you are sad. No matter. The present... Read article

Do You Want The Facts? You Are Probably A Conspiracy Theorist

Conspiracy theorists, those who look for the facts, ignoring the pressure of jeers, flawed appeals to authority, and intimidation, are the sanest among us. The steady migration of investigative journalists, who turn their backs on more lucrative employment, is only one indication of this. In a recent article, Scientific Study Reveals Conspiracy Theorists The Most Sane Of All, the author, J. D. Hayes, cites a recent study, published July 2013, by psychologists Michael J. Wood and Karen M. Douglas of the University of Kent... Read article

John Fund – Pimping The Vote

It is ironic that John Fund claims some kind of victory by pointing out a highly marginal way of stealing a few votes via the unusual opportunity of finding unused ballots. In his recent article, James O’Keefe Strikes Again, the back slapping was thick and gleeful. James O’Keefe, again, scored a media event in these last days before the coming election. This time he was not dressed up in his pimp dudes, but he should have been. The election would have to extraordinarily close for this kind of voter fraud to matter.... Read article

September 11, 2014 – What Happened To World Peace?

As the memorials for September 11, 2001 end it is time to remember the potential for peace which existed in the days following. The world grieved with us. Ordinary people around the globe reacted with outpourings of sympathy, protesting these acts of terrorism. World leaders immediately responded, condemning the murders and offering support. Among these leaders was Vladimir Putin. Russia’s president urged “the entire international community should unite in the struggle against terrorism,” also saying... Read article

How The NeoCons ‘Managed’ Saddam Hussein

And Why the Facts Matter Now… Part One of Four… “I’m not a journalist and the facts don’t matter.” - Rayelan Allen, RMN owner and editor “All politics is personal,” or “the personal is political.” Early feminist sayings In November of 2002 we had been lied to about Weapons of Mass Destruction, the reason given for invading Iraq, resistance to the war was waning. Standing in the way, though this was not publicly known at the time, was Saddam Hussein, who was very willing to leave Iraq... Read article

Declaring Revolution July 2, 1776

As the memory of fireworks fade the day after the 4th of July, remember the date for declaring Independence from England was actually July 2nd.. A final version of the Declaration took two more days. It was the 2nd which John Adams believed would become, “the most memorable epocha in the history of America.” He was wrong. July 4th was the date Congress approved the finalized text of the Declaration produced by the five man committee assigned to give final form and substance to the ideas and causes which had compelled... Read article

The Koch’s Secret Sauce

The Koch’s Secret Sauce – The Profit is in the Poisons  (Sort of like those special spices in your Indian food!) Of course, it is not likely Charles himself was hunkered down in the secret laboratory under his mansion in Wichita, Kansas.  But he certainly knew the formula. Koch Truths and Green Fields Renewal will now reveal the actual content of the ugly substance which bubbled out of the broken pipe in Mayflower a little over a year ago. Notice, this information has been carefully sequestered by ExxonMobil. Believe... Read article

Do You Remember Monica Lewinsky?

Vanity Fair will publish an article by Monica Lewinsky in it’s June issue. Ripples of commentary have already begun on the now 40 year old woman who earned a Master of Science degree in December of 2006. For the last eight years Monica has tried to keep her name out of the news. Today, she is again useful to the Clintons and their corporate sponsors. While the source of her notoriety titillated, consider why her emergence matters one way or another. It doesn’t, you know. This is hype, orchestrated to impact... Read article

A Symphony In The Brain

How does your brain work? Understanding came only over time and through multiple disciplines. Inquiries included a yogi sealed in an air tight box with air enough for 90 minutes. After 8 hours the ancient yogi asked to be released, providing a flash of insight on how much we do not know. Sometimes a story based in science reads like a novel. This was the case with Jim Robbin’s “A Symphony in the Brain,” published in 2000. Symphony tells the saga of Neurofeedback’s origins and growing success against a medical... Read article

First Anniversary – ‘Levels of Concern’ In Mayflower, Arkansas

A year ago Ann Jarrell was living in a house she loved. She had saved for years to buy it. Her daughter, Jennifer, and new grandson, Logan, were living with her temporarily. Logan had been born December 11th. Watching Logan’s world grow, along with his reach, became a fascination for Ann she had missed while raising her own child. Then, on March 29th, Ann, Jennifer, and Logan’s lives changed forever. Ann learned about the spill, which took place less than 1,000 yards from her home, when her daughter called... Read article

The Foreclosure Meltdown Was Planned – A Whistle Blower Speaks Out

“The trade in derivatives, using home notes, was designed as a Ponzi scheme. Excel knew it. Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft (CWT), knew it. My fellow junior associates laughed at me, senior associates got mad at me, and the senior partners ultimately asked me to resign or be fired when I wrote repeated lengthy memoranda explaining this out to them.” – Charles Lincoln, III, PH.D., Harvard, J.D., University of Chicago, School of Law Who is Charles Lincoln, III? In October, 1993, Charles Lincoln, III began work... Read article

A Full Measure – War, Mortgages And Measuring The Human Spirit

When millions of people are suffering and dying we tend to focus on the stories of individuals who then come to represent them all. Anne Frank represents for a vast majority the ugliness visited on Jews during WWII. The stories are haunting. All stories of vast human suffering impact us. Only those without conscience or empathy can view the suffering of others and not be moved. Anne Frank died before I was born, but sometimes, unexpectedly, you find yourself confronted with a story of human endurance which is overwhelming. Another... Read article

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