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9th Circuit ruling favorable for Occupiers to hold police, gov’ts accountable...
A three judge panel of the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals filed an unanimous ruling in Nelson v. City of Davis. The student plaintiff, Timothy Nelson was seriously and permanently injured by the...
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Unemployment and the Spin Cycle
Every month, at the beginning of the month the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases a bunch of numbers that allegedly describe the employment market that Americans find themselves in. These numbers and...
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Countrywide/Bank of America whistleblower practically begs for subpoena,...
The continued war on whistleblowers (Photo: Ben Salter / Flickr). I ran across this posting in Rolling Stone from a management-level whistleblower, who provided information about frauds which took...
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Frackonomics, or, Why we can’t have anything nice
I was recently asked by a friend to contribute to a sort of compact reference on fracking (you can see the product here). As I was working on the section on the economics of fracking, it struck me that...
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The Captains of Catfood and their Phoney Baloney Debt Crisis
Another serving of our favorite treat! (Photo: Mark Turnauckas / Flickr) The Captains of Catfood are getting ready for another big push to steal your Social Security. Simpson and Bowles are getting...
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Drones Don’t Kill People – Presidents Do
There is compelling evidence that last year Nobel Peace Prize winner President Obama murdered an American teenager just two weeks after murdering his father and another American citizen in Yemen. The...
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Why President Obama’s drone assassination program must be made accountable
It’s 2020, and unless Mr. Obama has successfully declared himself President-for-life, somebody else is President. Perhaps this time the lesser evil has lost. Thanks to the groundwork laid by President...
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What are you buying the 1% for Cliffsmas?
Cliffsmas is coming and I bet you, like most of us, have not figured out just what it is that you are going to wind up giving the 1% this time around. Fortunately, they want to make it easy for you,...
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A Dispatch From The Committee To End The Future
Greetings fellow inhabitants of Earth. We, the Committee to End the Future, a purposely shadowy global organization of extremely wealthy and powerful people wish to thank you for your cooperation in...
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“Strengthening Social Security” and Other Euphemisms
Strengthen – example 1.) As a seventh grader, Victor Alcantara towered over his peers. Already six feet tall and a substantial 190 pounds, Victor was well prepared by nature for what gave him the...
View ArticleAre “Progressives” Destroying the New Deal?
Does the term Progressive mean anything anymore? Surely it has an historical meaning and there are some roundabout descriptions of modern progressivism online like this one from Wikipedia: Today,...
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Can Working People Be Saved From Obama’s Brilliant Plans?
President Obama has done a brilliant job for the 1% Under Mr. Obama’s leadership, after a tremendous, near utter collapse of the economy brought about by a corrupt finance sector, trillions of public...
View ArticleObama in a web of deceit – is he a spider or a bug?
Now that the academic and evidentiary support for austerity is shot full of holes, President Obama has an opportunity to perform a face-saving extrication from his position. Will he do it? A recent...
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If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear
America is a wonderful place where everyone is caring, competent, conscientious and above average. Police are always there to protect the people. America’s law enforcement agencies have never gotten...
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US Government and Corporations Cooperate To Create Your Dystopian Future
“In the future, you will probably be a terrorist.” The US government works closely with thousands of corporations to bring you everything from national security to the drivers of climate change. The...
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The NSA – Hiding a Shadow Government Behind a Haystack, “To Keep Us Safe”
The enormous service that a certain whistleblower has provided to Americans and the world at large, is becoming clear even in the face of shrill cries of “traitor” and histrionic accusations of “aiding...
View ArticlePBS Newshour Gets Played By NSA Lawyers
The other night, to it’s credit, the PBS Newshour had NSA whistleblowers William Binney and Russell Tice on for an interview segment, titled, “NSA Collects ‘Word for Word’ Every Domestic Communication,...
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The Grand Bargain Circus Is Back In Town!
Under The Big Top Hey looky, the circus is back in town – and here come the two lead clowns, one red clown and one blue clown – specially chosen by the Ringmaster: Like harbingers of a hard winter,...
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Grand Bargain Circus – Red Clowns Gone Wild!
Step right up! Come one, come all to the continuing Grand Bargain Circus! Just as when last we checked, the red clowns are still refusing to get in the car and leave the ring until the Ringmaster...
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Grand Bargain Circus – Midnight on the Highwire
Welcome back circus fans! The drama under the Beltway Bigtop is rising ever higher as the antics of the red clowns have captured the show. The clowns are still refusing to get in their car and leave...
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