Tuesday, April 5, 2005
America Heading For Debt Slavery
As early as Wednesday, your Representative in Congress will vote on a hugely important "Debt Slavery" Bankruptcy Bill (S. 256) that could literally change your life. The bill was written by credit card companies, which made $30 billion in profits in 2004 - but are blinded by their greed. The bill...
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Monday, April 4, 2005
Oil - High, and Going Higher!
Oil has hit another new high, and OPEC has promised to raise its production by another 500,000 barrels per day to help ease the pain. But with capacity tight and demand continuing to grow, high oil prices may be here to stay TALK about record oil prices is beginning to get a bit tedious; oil seems...
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Saturday, March 26, 2005
"Right to Life" Hypocrisy
Far from the hurly-burly in Florida, where the Bush brothers and their shameless minions have sought to milk maximum "political capital" from the ravaged body of a brain-dead woman, the true moral values of these gilded hypocrites were on stark display last week in a quiet corner of the Bushes'...
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Thursday, March 3, 2005
America No. 1? Think Again!
No concept lies more firmly embedded in our national character than the notion that the USA is "No. 1," "the greatest." Our broadcast media are, in essence, continuous advertisements for the brand name "America Is No. 1." Any office seeker saying otherwise would be committing political suicide. In...
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Saturday, February 19, 2005
Bush Tort Reform: Executive Clemency For Executive Killers
It's s great day for the Eichmanns of corporate America. President Bush minutes ago signed the ill-named 'tort reform' bill into law, limiting class action suits. Doubtless, Ken Lay, former Enron CEO, is grinning as are the corporate suite killers at drug maker Merck who are now safer from the...
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Friday, February 11, 2005
The Bush Budget
George Bush has submitted a budget that is tough on discretionary spending for this coming year. But Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as proposed changes to Social Security and the tax code, still leave black clouds on the fiscal horizon GEORGE BUSH’S supporters love to compare him with another...
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Saturday, January 29, 2005
Social Security Privatization - More Bush Lies!!!
Little Black Lies Social Security privatization really is like tax cuts, or the Iraq war: the administration keeps on coming up with new rationales, but the plan remains the same. President Bush's claim that we must privatize Social Security to avert an imminent crisis has evidently fallen flat. So...
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Monday, January 24, 2005
INTERNATIONAL THINKING AT ITS BEST!
Question: What is the truest definition of Globalization? Answer: Princess Diana's death. Question: How come? Answer: An English princess with an Egyptian boyfriend crashes in a French tunnel, driving a German car with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian who was drunk on Scottish whisky, followed...
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Friday, January 21, 2005
The Industrialist & The Giant Frog
Once upon a time there was a beautiful river in a beautiful valley. The waters were fresh and clean and full of fish and frogs. Then, one day, a Wealthy Industrialist was passing through the valley and he said to himself, "What a beautiful place to build a factory!" And so he built the factory. And...
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Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Whatever it Takes - The Fight Against Poverty
A report sponsored by the United Nations, and overseen by Jeffrey Sachs, urges rich countries to spend more on cutting hunger and poverty in the developing world. But there are still plenty of cynics THOUGH hunger is of course impossible to ignore for the 850m people who suffer from it, statistics...
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