Video: Gaza – Out of the Ruins

Jeremy Bowen travels through a devastated Gaza to ask what the recent conflict means for the region’s future. Interviewing both victims and combatants, he pieces together rival claims about war crimes and the targeting of civilians, and follows extraordinary personal stories across the frontlines. Panorama asks whether the offensive has really weakened the Hamas movement or if the violence has simply sowed the seeds of further bloodshed. BBC Panorama – Gaza: Out of the Ruins Loading...  Read More →

Mesmerized by Melodic Rhetoric

“I’ve been through Y2K and I’ve been through 9/11. I have never seen people so afraid as what we are seeing right now,” said gun shop owner Scott Moss recently. With more guns per capita – easily 250 million privately owned ones – and certainly more people in prisons than any other democracy, the intriguing question in this still worsening economic calamity is: If Americans found the courage for political rebellion now, would it preempt massive criminal violence, social havoc and armed rebellion... Read article

The Futility Of Not Creating Debt Free Currency

U.S. President Obama is presenting all the positive sides of the “stimulus package” and pushing its ratification in the halls of Congress. Likewise, the Philippine President Marcapagal is carrying out a comparable program to uplift his own country’s ailing economy, create jobs and save the financial system from total collapse. However, the problem with the stimulus packages created by these two leaders is that the money to be used to jumpstart business activities, obviously, provides a “band-aid remedy”... Read article

President and Congress Grovel Before The Fed

According to Bloomberg News (Monday, February 9, 2009), “The stimulus package the U.S. Congress is completing would raise the government’s commitment to solving the financial crisis to $9.7 trillion, enough to pay off more than 90 percent of the nation’s home mortgages. “The Federal Reserve, Treasury Department and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation have lent or spent almost $3 trillion over the past two years and pledged up to $5.7 trillion more. The Senate is to vote this week on an economic-stimulus... Read article

It’s Immigration, Jobs and Economy in Colorado: Stupid!

Re: “Cut funds to illegals to balance Colorado’s budget” RMN Martha Reed/2/9/09 Senator Dave Schultheis introduced SB09-23 into committee last week at the Colorado State Capitol. That bill makes employers check potential employees for being legal green card holders or American citizens. While 20 Coloradans stood up in favor of the bill, five people spoke on voting the bill down. Who do you think they might be? All of them represented hotel, restaurant, Brown Palace, and criminal alien rights groups. When asked... Read article

Potions and Charms and Spells! Oh my!

“I will continue to proclaim that I am a Witch, and I am Wiccan, for it means the same thing. It is my religion, and it is my craft. It is my life.” – Mike Nichols, Wiccan Witches are coming out of the broom closet. But they’re not calling themselves witches anymore. Instead those in “the Craft” prefer Wiccan, which comes from the earlier form of the word for witch. [1] Perhaps the name has been changed to take the sting out of it, but a witch by any other name is still a witch. It’s impossible to determine... Read article

Biden Vows to Continue Bush Policy Towards Iran

U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden last Saturday outlined the Obama administration’s continuation of the Bush administration’s foreign policy towards Iran. Reiterating the Bush policy of loosely defined “preventive” warfare outlined in Bush’s National Security Strategy, he said that the “U.S. will strive to act preventively to avoid having to choose between the risks of war and the dangers of inaction.” Echoing the previous administration’s policy, Biden offered an ultimatum, saying the U.S. would be “willing... Read article

Ambushed by Taliban in Afghanistan & by Unemployment in America

David Pratt, an international correspondent for Scotland’s Sunday Herald, just wrote an article entitled “Ambushed by the Taliban”. His story and the video that went with it made me so jealous I was almost drooling with envy. I’m so totally bored with just staying at home, washing dishes and writing stories about Wall Street bailouts and Judge Judy. I wanna go off to Afghanistan and get ambushed by the Taliban too. How come Pratt gets to have all the fun. “Suddenly all hell broke... Read article

American Apologies

During His inauguration speech, President Barack Obama declared: “We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense.” Hmm…if His Holiness is really defending my way of life, he’s slaughtering civilians and wasting billions in taxpayer dollars in the name of atheism, anarchism, veganism, and so on. How odd… Here’s a news flash for the Pope of Hope: “Our way of life” (in the more general sense) not only needs to be apologized for, it needs to be permanently altered…in... Read article

Next Added 100 Million Americans: Environmental Refugees

Chapter Fifteen… “Scholars are predicting that 50 million people worldwide will be displaced by 2010 because of rising sea levels, desertification, dried up aquifers, weather-induced flooding and other serious environmental changes.” ~ Andrew Simms With continued U.S. population growth rates, California tops an added 20 million by 2035. Texas grows by 12 million by 2025. Every state suffers its share of the next added 100 million people. Experts at Vanderbilt University tell us that the U.S. population stands... Read article

Obama & The Coming Energy Wars

OBAMA’S NATIONAL SECURITY WARLORD, General James Jones, has designs on energy sources abroad. Jones, who as NATO supreme commander in 2006, advocated broadening the Afghan war across Pakistan’s border, was recently the Director of Chevron Oil and head of the powerful energy lobby group, the Institute For 21st Century Energy. Jones says that America must seek new energy sources to ensure its “security:” “Energy is the foundation of our nation’s security. As worldwide demand for energy has grown, competition for... Read article

Do Americans Cherish Freedom Anymore?

I am often guilty of using the term “freedom-loving Americans.” But I think the question now needs to be asked, Do Americans really cherish freedom anymore? I believe an argument could be made that not many do. In fact, I doubt that most Americans today remotely understand what freedom–as envisioned by our Founding Fathers–even is. Freedom is more than not being in prison (although America incarcerates more people than any nation on earth). Freedom is more than driving a car, or taking a vacation,... Read article

Will Obama Start the Next Trade War?

While campaigning to be president, Obama gave the general impression that he would act “cooperatively” to solve international problems, moving away from the Bush strategy of irresponsible “unilateralism.” But Obama took an aggressive stance towards China even on the campaign trail, including the accusations of “currency manipulation,” “violating intellectual property rights,” and “devaluing their goods.” Of course the average American cares nothing about these types of crimes, nor should they. Some U.S.... Read article

Endless Night

There is no doubt that the Israelis have learned their lessons well. Their teachers were Europeans/ Christians, without exception. The Nazis of Germany and other places only provided the finishing touch to a very lengthy and thorough indoctrination. Current expressions of protest against Israeli excesses in Palestine/ Gaza also make it clear that it would be foolish to imagine that Christian anti-semitism is dead. It is merely layered over by the hubris of the gas chambers and the concentration camps. Arab/ Palestinian/... Read article

Madam Jane predicts:

Social Security pensioners will be the new upper class… Things have been totally out of whack in the political world lately. The American economy is all shot to hell, 1.7 million Americans just lost their jobs, Congress is giving Israel billions of dollars to shoot Hamas-infiltrated zoo animals and thousands of chickens in Gaza — and it looks like the Republicans are turning to Rush Limbaugh as their next commander-in-chief. Can it be any wonder that I’m worried about the future? And when in doubt... Read article

“Living and Breathing” vs. Original Intent

In just six months the so-called movers and shakers in our nation’s Capitol have managed to, and continue to add to, an impossible burden of National Debt on the backs of present and future generations. In effect they have murdered the “Republic for which we stand.” The most serious questions that can be asked: Does the U.S. Constitution provide the Congress and the President 1) this unprecedented power? 2) bailing out all manner of capitalist businesses, the banking system, homeowners or any other combo you might... Read article

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