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Don’t Give a Damn About the TPP? You’re Going to Wish It Gave a Damn About You.
Don’t Give a Damn About the TPP? You’re Going to Wish It Gave a Damn About You. Try this at home. Dress up corporate. Stand on a corner with a clipboard. Hover a drone with a video camera nearby. Ask passersby: 1. Who’s in the Super Bowl? 2. Who should be president next year? 3. […]
The Increasingly Fragile Upper-Middle Class
The Increasingly Fragile Upper-Middle Class Many of these apparently high incomes are completely absorbed by high-cost upper middle class expenses. Since the top 10% takes home 50% of all household income, it follows that this top slice has most of the discretionary cash, i.e. net income left after taxes, servicing debt and paying for essentials […]
The War On Savers And The 200 Rulers Of Global Finance
The War On Savers And The 200 Rulers Of Global Finance There has been an economic coup d’état in America and most of the world. We are now ruled by about 200 unelected central bankers, monetary apparatchiks and their minions and megaphones on Wall Street and other financial centers. Unlike Senator Joseph McCarthy, I actually do have a list of their names. […]
New Safe Harbor Data “Deal” May Be More Politicking Than Surveillance Reform
New Safe Harbor Data “Deal” May Be More Politicking Than Surveillance Reform Lobbyists, government officials, and technology executives celebrated newsfrom Strasbourg on Tuesday morning that the European Commission and the United States had reached an agreement to reinstate the free flow of massive amounts of data between companies in the United States and the European Union, […]
There Is No Freedom Without Truth
There Is No Freedom Without Truth “This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet […]
USA: Where Politicians Are Free to Rig the Game
USA: Where Politicians Are Free to Rig the Game As to be expected, the Republicans are up to dirty tricks to try to prevent Trump from being the candidate. After the Iowa Caucus, reports are surfacing from volunteers who say that their precincts were being combined into one large mob to push the vote to […]
Gerald Celente: Get Prepped For Global Systemic Collapse
Gerald Celente: Get Prepped For Global Systemic Collapse More ridiculous predictable market action today. The worse things become in the real world the more frantic the stupidity becomes. The American authorities are clearly terrified that their world role as hegemon is being threatened and it is not beyond the realm of possibility that your fears […]
Retail Apocalypse: 2016 Brings Empty Shelves And Store Closings All Across America
Retail Apocalypse: 2016 Brings Empty Shelves And Store Closings All Across America Major retailers in the United States are shutting down hundreds of stores, and shoppers are reporting alarmingly bare shelves in many retail locations that are still open all over the country. It appears that the retail apocalypse that made so many headlines in […]
‘Occupied’ Norway a window into our fossil fuel addiction
‘Occupied’ Norway a window into our fossil fuel addiction Okay, I admit that the premise of Norwegian television’s new political thriller series “Occupied” is far-fetched. But that premise is a window on just how addicted to fossil fuels we are. In “Occupied” Norway’s Green Party wins parliamentary elections and makes good on its (not-altogether-fictional) promise to shut […]
We’ll all be Flint Michigan someday: U.S. water infrastructure is falling apart
We’ll all be Flint Michigan someday: U.S. water infrastructure is falling apart NRC. 2006. Drinking Water Distribution Systems: Assessing and Reducing Risks Committee on Public Water Supply Distribution Systems: Assessing and Reducing Risks. National Research Council, National Academies Press. [ According to this Free National Research Council report, most water systems and distribution pipes will be […]
If Only the Nuclear Arsenal Were Fool Proof
If Only the Nuclear Arsenal Were Fool Proof In his book Atomic Accidents (Pegasus, 2014), James Mahaffey reports that the US has lost, destroyed or damaged nuclear weapons 65 times between 1945 and 1989. Jan. 24 was the anniversary of a B-52 crash in N. Carolina where two 6,500-lb hydrogen bombs fell from the plane and nearly […]
Western warmongers have all the answers, and they’re all wrong
Western warmongers have all the answers, and they’re all wrong The wars in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan failed not because of noble errors, but because short-sighted Western interests trumped the needs of the people. And this is why the creeping return to war will fail again Despite an almost total lack of public debate, Western […]
Is The EIA Too Optimistic On U.S. Oil Output?
Is The EIA Too Optimistic On U.S. Oil Output? After following the weekly production statistics avidly for some months and initially being smugly pleased by the data saying exactly what I wanted to hear, I then became completely befuddled by the data saying the opposite. I had almost reached the conclusion that the weekly production […]
