my thoughts on my life and my world
Thanks to tomdispatch.com for this:
On November 14, 2002, the New York Times published a column by William Safire entitled “You Are a Suspect” in which he revealed that DARPA had been given a $200 million budget to compile dossiers on 300 million Americans. He wrote, “Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine [...]
Corporations have brought great amounts of inventiveness and positive change to Planet Earth. But at what cost? And if it will soon be too late to fix the global damage due to CO2 and other pollutants, why is Exxon attempting to delay the inevitable changes that must happen in order for the human [...]
Having 66,000 pages of tax code is a powerful smoke-screen for the Federal Reserve/IRS’s sleight-of-Invisible-Hand, enabling the power-knowledge of “what does the law mean?” to be reserved to a shadowy priesthood of tax lawyers and high-level economics gurus. Who knows these people? When do they get questioned by journalists on our national news [...]
There are prophecies in the Bible which indicate that a time is coming in which powerful religio-political forces will persecute a non-conformist minority, attempting to intimidate them into submission, and eventually using deadly force against them. I agree with my Seventh-day Adventist Church in its application of one such prophecy to the United States [...]
Just one of the many positive and workable suggestions made by The Smirking Chimp’s Stephen Fleischman is to Soak the Rich. Here’s a quote from the article, found at smirkingchimp.com:
Reverse Reaganomics. Re-institute regulation of industry. Make the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), for example, do their jobs, so [...]
