Why the US Bank Crisis is Not Over (tags)
There must always be a financial crash at some point. That is because interest-bearing debt grows exponentially, but the economy follows an S-curve and then turns down. And when the economy turns down... the magnitude of financial claims on the economy exceeds the ability to pay.
This is not the first state in which this is being done, and it will not be the last. Unless we speak up in mass numbers. This will not end in anway good for us. Either speak up, or be the problem.
KPFK hosted PACIFICA's board in LA. Missed it? here's some for ya (tags)
More on PACIFICA FORUM in LA june 2015 - as observed and noted. Many KPFK public members - and staff - and programmers came for their brief 2-min comment to the 'parent' company- Pacifica PNB members present, The PNB spoke for hours disputing, conflicting, discussing and also shouting to each other - while the larger-size audience sat way in back behind their circle.
The West Marches East, Part 1 (tags)
Russia can only be said to be an “aggressive” and “imperial” power so long as one accepts the unrelenting hypocrisy of U.S. and Western leaders. After all, it was not Russia that invaded and occupied Afghanistan and Iraq, killing millions.
Watching the Jerry Sandusky trial at times reminds me of when I was in college. I was at the University of Connecticut studying landscape architecture and I started experiencing discriminatory harassment. It started with one professor, and so I thought I could just ride it out as it was just comments under his breath from time to time and only when I passed him in the hallway or other times when not many people were within earshot. I just kept on going, but the harassment just kept growing in intensity and frequency.
When two Americans raised their fists in the Black Power salute in 1968 no one paid much attention to the third man. After all he had not raised his own fist though pinned to his chest was a button demanding equal rights for all mankind no matter what their color or creed.
Construction workers picket new gym in Upland (tags)
Monday, February 6, 2012
UPLAND (CA) - Carpenters set up a picket line this morning in front of what is soon to become a Crunch gymnasium. Workers upset about a subcontractor's paying of substandard wages to drywallers set up the picket in protest.
Prayers of the People (11-20-11) (tags)
A response to the police action at UC Davis. Published so late because I just discovered this site.
Oil Pollution and Organized Irresponsibility (tags)
The question of the responsibility of corporations is raised in principle in the historic environmental disaster at the Gulf of Mexico. The legislation leaves open many loopholes.
The Brazilian corpses in the closets of the White House.
AIPAC order Obama not to attend conference on racism (tags)
And he obeys.
5 Disastrous Decisions That Got Us into This Econmic Mess (tags)
We are at a dangerous moment. Behind the debates about future economic policy is a debate about history. Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate, is a professor of economics at Columbia University.
PGMA US VISIT, PATHETIC DISPLAY OF MENDICACY OF A US PUPPET (tags)
The Alliance-Philippines (AJLPP) today expresses outrage over the passing of the more than $ 628 B budget to fund the Iraq –Afghanistan war yesterday, June 26 in the US Congress while that the Filipino Veterans Equity bill that was languishing in the US congress for more than 18 years was not even discussed. Aside approving the war budget, the high profile legislative visit or the lobby by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo took precedence in the House of Representatives. It is high point in mendicancy for the president of the Philippines to let herself be stereotyped as “cooks” and “Philippine-Americans” by no less President Bush during their White House meeting.
California Democratic Convention identifies problems, not solutions (tags)
The California State Democratic Party Convention held in San Jose was not about party platforms, but more of a media event and a giant sales meeting to market the party to its own delegates. Its objective was not solutions, but winning the White House.
The American Nightmare: Vietnam (tags)
The number of killed adversaries-the body count-was made the most important criterion of military success. Identifying a dead Vietnamese as Vietcong was the general rule. In free fire zones, the US armed forces moved in a law-free space. The war was without fronts.
Eric McDavid's Commissary Cut Off (tags)
Your help needed...
You cynics may may sneer (tags)
But our glorious leaders are brave men who will make the right decision on Iraq in September.
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Man cleared over Aborigine death (tags)
Cameron Doomadgee's death sparked angry protests A court in Australia has found a police officer not guilty of the manslaughter and assault of an Aboriginal man who died in police custody.
The Release of Posada Carriles: A BRUTAL REPLY (tags)
George W. Bush is undoubtedly the most genuine representative of a system of terror forced on the world by the technological, economic and political superiority of the most powerful country known to this planet.
FROM VICENZA TO PRODI'S FALLING DOWN (tags)
It's some days that I don't write and many things happened. 200,000 thousand people demonstrated in Vicenza against the military base that US wants at Dal Molin airport. Not only anti war movements and groups against environmental degradation, but also deputies and senators in the parliament. Few days before, the government said "the decision is taken, US will build the base"
ANSWER Anti-War Contingent at MLK Day Parade (tags)
Photos from the anti-war contingent at the MLK Day parade
RATTUCUS ONE.2 REDEMPTION OF CRUISE (tags)
In the time of the new millenium, and in the new world, was a man known as Tom. He was also known as Cruise, that which moves in harmony with momentum, and he was well known for his works. It came to pass that Tom was tormented by many of those who knew of him, those who knew him, and even those who knew him and were blessed by their knowledge of him.
farting terrorist causes plane to land! (tags)
Flatulence forces plane to land - Don't these TSA and Homeland Security Thugs have any real criminals to chase down???
School Bus Driver fired for giving Bush the respect he deserves (tags)
School Bus Driver fired for giving Bush the finger! I won't argue if the firing was justified because I don't know, but at least the woman knows how to give Bush the respect he deserves. Although it does seem to show you that the school system teaches the kids that they dont have any First Amendment Rights.
Report Back: South Central Farmers 2nd Day in Court. (tags)
Attorneys for the farmers and the attorneys for the Horowitz and the city made their opening statements today to Judge Helen Bendix of the Los Angeles Superior Court.
Deja Vu - Plot to blow up Sears Tower, Phoenix Federal Court House (tags)
Revealed: the shrapnel evidence that points to Israel's guilt (tags)
Mr Garlasco [HRW's military analyst and former Pentagon battle damage expert] produced a four to five-inch, mainly blackened shell fragment which he collected about 100 yards from the scene of the explosion and in which the figures 55 and the letters "mm" are clearly discernible...Israel has dismissed continuing calls for an independent international inquiry into the beachfront explosion... Mr Garlasco who accompanied a small group of journalists to the Beit Lahia beach, pointed to three separate craters, each covered in a whitish powder, which he said were fresh, one of which was at the spot where witnesses agree the fatal blast occurred, and the two others separated it from it by about 120 and 250 yards. Mr Garlasco added: "It would be a really ridiculous coincidence if there is active shelling and then suddenly an IED [improvised explosive device] goes off."
Meso-Americanos: It's way overdue (tags)
Who Benefits from a New Division of the World? (tags)
We in the West should be more prepared than ever to respect the cultural identities of other people. We should strive to accept their ideas and demands on us..The problem of the West is understanding the mental consti-tution of the poor and humiliated.
Spielberg on Munich (the movie - a review) (tags)
But of course, the kinds of folks who push an ideology that required the expulsion of three-quarters-of-a-million Palestinians from their lands, and then lied about it, claiming there had been no such persons to begin with (as with Golda Meir’s infamous quip), can’t be expected to place a very high premium on truth. -- Tim Wise, anti-racist, anti-Zionist, Jewish-American activist, essayist & public speaker
George W. Bush Medical Results to Be Released Today -- Don't Believe 'em (tags)
Dr. Kenneth Cooper, M.D., of Dallas, the aerobics pioneer a long-time personal friend of George W. Bush, and the White House physician today released a letter saying President Bush is "fit for duty." Not so. They are supposed to release details later Saturday (today). President Bush presents with symptoms of Graves' disease and Wernicke's disease (which see on Google).
Could Americans vote for a French President? (tags)
John Kerry very much sound like a French politician. He has the same superior and rather snobbish look typical of French high civil servant. Kerry is brilliant but one never knows what it means. He is flipflopping all the time. Kerry would be worst than French appeasers and French socialists.
About That Bush Wire: It's Not the Most Important Thing... (tags)
The evidence mounts that Bush is hearing very earthly voices in his ear, but the more important issue is what those voices are having him say about his plans for the next term.
Commentary: What Really Happened at the Aladdin? (tags)
Did Las Vegas give Linda Ronstadt the boot? Was she censored for her political views? By Joseph Smigelski Many people are starting to ask, What really happened at the Aladdin Casino in Las Vegas on Saturday night, July 17th? Was Linda Ronstadt removed from the stage because the crowd had become unruly and safety issues had been raised, or was it because the casino’s management disagreed with her political views?
LINDA TRIPP KILLS TROOPS (tags)
Linda Tripp, queen of the Washington prostitutes, is directly responsible, along with her co-conspirators, for every military person killed since she extorted the president of the United States with MY VIDEO TAPES. All this was confirmed by the many analyses related to the 911 commission.
911 was not a surprise attack according to testimonies given at this week's hearings. HAMMAS calls for an ARMISTICE with the former US. Barbera Bush threatened her husband. CHINA and JAPAN attempt diplomacy. Tenet and Hamilton commit perjury, ALL ACCORDING TO FOX NEWS CHANNEL.
IGNORE THE SUFFERING OF MILLIONS OF CHILDREN (tags)
WHO CAN VISULIZE TWO MILLION SUFFERING CHILDREN?
How to deal with irritatingly good news (tags)
Within minutes of Paul Bremer pronouncing the words "We got him" to ecstatic cheers from Iraqi journalists, there were solemn-faced experts crowding on to my television screen to proclaim that the capture was largely irrelevant, or positively counter-productive, to the present difficulties in Iraq. The very same interviewers who had once invited their interviewees to prophesy endless anarchy as a consequence of America's inability to locate this man were now asking more or less the same people if his arrest was not pretty useless after all. Or (better yet) if it might not "inflame" the situation even further.
The Capture of Saddam Hussein-Editorial statement (tags)
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How the hell do you explain a 37-year military occupation to a 3 year old! (tags)
Last night was not a good night. We put our two girls to sleep at 9am. My wife followed at 10. At around 11:30pm I was on the computer when out of nowhere Israeli IDF soliders were yelling out of loudspeakers for our neighboors, 2 streets over, to exit their house with all kids. A few moments later the annoying wizzing sound of the unmanned plane...
Washington Post columnist discovers that Howard Dean is a warmonger like Bush (tags)
Howard Dean is no George McGovern. He opposed the Iraq war, he says, because it was "the wrong war at the wrong time," not because it was emblematic of a fundamentally misguided American foreign policy. Dean has not, in fact, challenged the reigning foreign policy paradigms of the post-9/11 era: the war on terrorism and the nexus between terrorism and rogue states with weapons of mass destruction. "I support the president's war on terrorism," he told Tim Russert this summer. He supported the war in Afghanistan. He even supported Israel's strike against a terrorist camp in Syria because Israel, like the United States, has the "right" to defend itself. (European Deanophiles take note.) Dean does not call for a reduction in American military power but talks about using the "iron fist" of our "superb military." He talks tough about North Korea and at times appears to be criticizing the Bush administration for not addressing that "imminent" threat more seriously. And he especially enjoys lacerating Bush for not taking the fight more effectively to al Qaeda, a bit like John F. Kennedy criticizing Eisenhower in 1960 for not being tough enough on communism.
'I Was Protecting You From A Madman' Says Bush (tags)
"I acted because I was not about to leave the security of the American people in the hands of a madman," Mr Bush told National Guardsmen and reservists in New Hampshire. "I was not about to stand by and wait and trust in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein."
Blair losing power, GW's next (tags)
The controversy over weapons of mass destruction seems likely to continue for Tony Blair. Now the Leader of the House has admitted the Prime Minister has a 'particular problem' with public trust.
The Fictitious Symbor of a Fictitious War: Private Lynch (tags)
The rescue of Jessica Lynch defined the Iraq war - and now defines what it was not, writes Malcolm Knox.
Today Show Goes Dark On Tim Robbins (tags)
A conversation about free speech. An anchor asking reasonable questions. A guest responding in equally reasonable tones. No attempt to close out the discussion - to say "Well thank you Tim". This was not a filibuster. Robbins was not hogging the spotlight. Someone in the control room simply decided that it was time to pull the plug.
ABC PRIME TIME ON WACO MISREPRESENTS FACTS (tags)
The Producer of the ABC Prime Time program, scheduled to air this evening, misrepresented the facts of how this program would play out. I was told that we would be allowed to ask an FBI representative any questions we'd like to ask. When the time came to ask my questions, the Producer said I was not allowed to present my questions.
L.A. Anarchist banned from flight (tags)
L.A. Anarchist Gary Rumor was banned from flying to the Bay Area to attend the Anarchist Book Fair and Conference.
As the Global French Revolution Continues on Schedule (tags)
I am sure it was not lost on the Kenyan population that when the IMF/World Bank dictates placed upon Daniel Moi's dictatorship to charge school fees for primary education moved to 40% of children between the ages of 5 and 14 into child labor
INS Detention of Arabs (FLASHPOINTS Interview of Attorney) (tags)
12 minute report, MP3 format and streaming realaudio
Downtown Women's Shelter Angel excommunicated? (tags)
Given every excuse until they were told that their Angel was unrepresentative, the Downtown Women's Center's Angel was not invited to participate in the two week exhibition and auction.
POSSIBLE ASSASSINATION OF WELLSTONE!? (tags)
Repost of article which first appeared on Minnesota Indymedia. Before all you people start crying "conspiracy theory," remember the little Anthrax incident about a year ago to the day in which 2 Democratic Party Senators were sent anthrax genetically identical to US Army/CIA anthrax at Ft. Detrick, MD. Also, remember the curious death of Clifford Baxter, Enron executive in Sugarland, TX--Tom Delay's home district.
First North Korea, now Vieques! (tags)
This is a fine mess you've gotten us into this time, Ollie.
JUDGE REJECTS PLEA FOR RAISETHEFIST.COM WEBMASTER (tags)
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Racial Profiling: America's Death Squads (tags)
Three months after Prince Jones was murdered, the cop filed a charge against a man, alleging that he thought Prince Jones was not that man, but an associate of that man, which satisfied the FBI that this was not a death-squadding instance according to a policy of witch-hunting of young black males driving nice cars with PG license plates if spotted in DC high- crime areas.
FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE CAMPESINOS (tags)
¡NO MAS! NO MORE! STOP THE DIRTY WAR! In Colombia, paramilitary butchers, operating in collusion with the US/Canada government-and corporate-backed Colombian Army and National Police, selectively murder and massacre unarmed civilians with impunity. See URL's below for more info.