United States in a World of Hurt in 2009

Immigration of all kinds… While the immigration debate rages across the planet, most authorities, leaders and the media tremble at the mention of hyper-immigration growth, “…widely recognized as a major component of the social, economic and environmental problems facing mankind.” Let’s us examine a man on the forefront of the immigration crisis facing the United States of America. His seminal work at www.thesocialcontract.com and www.fairus.org continues as the single most compelling catalyst for discussion... Read article

Americans Should Act to End Violence Against Gaza

Israel’s bombardment of Gaza has long been in the planning, and the purpose is to terrorize the Arab population in the hopes that they will revolt against the Hamas leadership and to punish them further for electing them. The siege Gaza has remained under since Israel withdrew its military from the Strip in 2006 has had the same intended purpose. A comparable policy was implemented by the US against Iraq. The sanctions were intended to further the goal of regime change. The means by which this goal was pursued was to punish... Read article

Time for Autoworkers to Fightback

Organized labor in the U.S. is at a very serious crossroads — and with it the working class as a whole. On the one hand, union organizing is on the rise for the first time in decades, with the possibility of exploding if — and it is a big IF — the Democrats carry out their promise of passing the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). Another positive is the United Electrical Workers (UE) workers victory in Chicago, who single-handedly re-taught U.S. labor the word “militancy.” On the other hand, however, there are very... Read article

A Bit of Nastalgia

My Mentor, My Friend, Tom Many successful people have had mentors. They are often religious leaders, parents, teachers, coaches, or business associates. Mine was different. For those saved from hopeless addiction the advent becomes a permanent defining moment. It is as if life began at that transition and what went before was but a terrible nightmare. I am now in my eightieth year but the life I was intended to live began a scant forty-six years ago. Evidence of the reality of my nightmare still remains as a perennial... Read article

Next Added 100 Million Americans: Energy And The Silent Lie

Chapter Thirteen… “The United States cannot afford to wait for the next energy crisis to marshal its intellectual and industrial resources. Our growing dependence on increasingly scarce Middle Eastern oil is a fool’s game—there is no way for the rest of the world to win. Our losses may come suddenly through war, steadily through price increases, agonizingly through developing-nation poverty, relentlessly through climate change—or through all of the above.” ~ James Woolsey, US Director of Central... Read article

Bosnia, Hillary’s Playground

At a time when the U.S. power and authority are increasingly challenged around the world, the incoming team sees the Balkans as the last geopolitically significant area where they can assert their “credibility” by postulating a maximalist set of objectives as the only outcome acceptable to the United States, and duly insisting on their fulfillment. We have already seen this pattern with Kosovo, and it is to be expected that we’ll see its replay in Bosnia under the new team. Hillary Clinton intends to place the Balkans,... Read article

Next Added 100 Million Americans: Fracturing America

Chapter Twelve… “Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.” ~ Margaret Sanger 1879-1966 Today, California sloshes nostril-deep in its 37.5 million population overload. It grows by 1,700 people daily! Do the math. By 2050, if this immigration-driven population phenomenon continues, California explodes to 79.1 million people. Source:... Read article

A New Wind Blowing

The whole country is agog with the news of the Madoff Ponzi scheme and the billions he scammed from big investors, but nobody appears to realize that it is only the tip of a huge iceberg. There are other so-called legitimate institutions afloat in the private sector that are profiting from similar scams with the heartfelt approval of the raging capitalists in government as well as private individuals. Foremost among these are the insurance companies as they have become established in America. Even the government social programs... Read article

Higher Wages or Bubblenomics

What’s it gonna be? Wages, wages, wages. It all gets down to wages. A strong economy must be built on a solid foundation of steadily rising wages. If wages don’t keep pace with production, the only way the economy can grow is through the expansion of debt, which leads to disaster. Consider this: the US economy is 72 percent consumer spending. That means the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) cannot grow if salaries don’t keep up with the price of living. Low Income Families (LOF)–that is, any couple making... Read article

News Traveled Slow — 2000 years ago

Are you on information overload? It’s not surprising. We are constantly bombarded with news, continuously processing what we take in from newspapers, radio, television and now the global internet. Today’s news is old news, pushed aside by fresh news almost instantaneously. There is one story which refuses to leave and continues to defy time — the birth of a baby wrapped in cloths and laid in a manger in a small town called Bethlehem. By today’s technological standards, we would consider those times archaic. News... Read article

The Birth Of Christ And The Birth Of America Are Linked

As we approach the celebration of Christ’s birth, I am reminded of the words of John Quincy Adams. On July 4, 1837, he spoke these words: “Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day? … Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of... Read article

The Power Elite Playbook, Controlled Conflict and Staged Incompetence

Part Twenty The war conspirators included a Standard Oil attorney, Henry L. Stimson (Skull & Bones), who was a Thomas Lamont ally, and partner with Elihu Root in a law firm on Wall Street, the nucleus of the powerful American Establishment. Following Washington’s proverbial revolving door collusion strategy between corporate oligarchies and government, Stimson held the following strategic positions: civilian Secretary of War under fellow Skull and Bonesman Taft (1908-1912), Governor General of the Philippines (1926-1928),... Read article

Bailouts

Keep Blowing and the Bubble will Burst… If you blow long enough, you will burst any bubble. If you fail to maintain your brakes, they will break down at some inopportune time. Failure to maintain personal solvency in your bank account leads to bankruptcy. When you carry a balance on your credit card, you pay far higher than the original cost of the item or service. How do you—or a nation—arrive at a point of financial breakdown? Does arrogant entitlement and over-extension beyond one’s means resonate with... Read article

In auto bailout, don’t make workers pay the price for corporate greed

I don’t usually see eye-to-eye with George W. Bush, but I am grateful that he took some steps last week to bail out the auto industry. After all, how could we bail out the Wall Street elite without also making an effort to save the largest single segment of the U.S. manufacturing industry? In other words, how can we bail out the white collar bankers without making a similar gesture to save the blue collar auto workers who have traditionally formed the foundation of the U.S. economy? The price of inaction would have... Read article

U.S. Foreign Policy: Grim Continuity Guaranteed

Barack Obama’s selection of Joseph Biden as his Vice President, Hillary Clinton’s appointment to State, Robert Gates’ retention at the Pentagon, and the selection of General James Jones as head of the National Security Council point to the President-elect’s willful blindness to the collapsing economic foundation of the American hyperpower. His key appointees all share a vision – a grand strategy of sorts – that guarantees an unwelcome continuity of this country’s foreign and security policies in the next four... Read article

Elements of an Inside Job in Mumbai Attacks

Indian police last week arrested Hassan Ali Khan, who was wanted for investigations into money laundering and other illicit activities, and who is also said to have ties to Dawood Ibrahim, the underworld kingpin who evidence indicates was the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks in Mumbai last month. Ibrahim is also alleged to have close ties with both Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) agency and the CIA. Another character linked to the CIA whose name is now beginning to figure into the web of connections... Read article

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