This Bill Moyer's Speech given to:
Public Citizen 40th Gala
Washington, DC
October 20, 2011
It's a fairly long read but properly describes what is happening in America and how we got here. It includes, with a little help from history, a possible solution. The 99% has taken the first step. Keep the faith y'all, we are a Democracy NOT a Plutocracy. Democracy doesn't come cheap or easy. It takes hard work and most Americans understand that. So read what Mr. Moyer has to say and let put America back on the right track.
http://www.truth-out.org/how-did-happen/1320278111
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Thursday, October 13, 2011
6-b.s.-myths-you-probably-believe-about-americas-enemies
Although written with tongue firmly in cheek this article reads like an episode of the "Daily Show" by simply pointing out the hypocrisy of most of the "crap" the so-called media feeds to us. Give it a read and see if you don't agree. Funny and spot-on.
http://www.cracked.com/article_19461_6-b.s.-myths-you-probably-believe-about-americas-enemies.html
http://www.cracked.com/article_19461_6-b.s.-myths-you-probably-believe-about-americas-enemies.html
Thursday, September 15, 2011
True conservatism and the moral bankruptcy of the Tea Party
Republicans are people too. We all know people who are right-leaning and they are fair and level headed folks for the most part. The below article really tells the story of how the Tea Party is systematically destroying the true Republican Party. If you are by chance a Tea Party member and keep wondering why everyone hates your new found party give this a read, you'll know why.
http://whiskeyandthemorningafter.blogspot.com/2011/09/true-conservatism-and-moral-bankruptcy.html
http://whiskeyandthemorningafter.blogspot.com/2011/09/true-conservatism-and-moral-bankruptcy.html
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Our Country Isn't What It Used to Be!
As a matter of fact things are becoming down-right scary! I could go on and on about how terrible things are for everyone but the media does a much better job. If you'd like a little insight into what our beloved country has become then click on the link and find out.
http://politicsanonymous.com/?p=1567
http://politicsanonymous.com/?p=1567
Monday, August 15, 2011
How to Defeat the Right in Three Minutes
This is a great little piece from the Redneck Party! Sometimes things are so obvious that you miss them completely. So you're not out-in-the-woods anymore give this article a read. It makes the right soooo easy to understand.
Defeat the Right in Three Minutes
by Thomas Hicks on Friday, May 29, 2009 at 2:18am
Meme-warfare made simple
Recently, GNN came across another digital guerrilla on the frontlines of the meme war. His nom de guerre is the Conceptual Guerilla [1], and for your first taste of his skills, we give you this deft deconstruction of the Right’s economic philosophy:
Have you got three minutes? Because that’s all you need to learn how to defeat the Republican Right. Just read through this handy guide and you’ll have everything you need to successfully debunk right-wing propaganda.
It’s really that simple. First, you have to beat their ideology, which really isn’t that difficult. At bottom, conservatives believe in a social hierarchy of “haves” and “have nots” that I call “corporate feudalism” [2]. They have taken this corrosive social vision and dressed it up with a “respectable” sounding ideology. That ideology is pure hogwash, and you can prove it.
But you have to do more than defeat the ideology. You have to defeat the “drum beat.” You have to defeat the “propaganda machine,” that brainwashes people with their slogans and catch-phrases. You’ve heard those slogans. “Less government” [3], “personal responsibility” [4] and lots of flag waving. They are “shorthand” for an entire worldview, and the right has been pounding their slogans out into the public domain for getting on forty years.
So you need a really good slogan – a “counter-slogan” really, to “deprogram” the brainwashed. You need a “magic bullet” that quickly and efficiently destroys the effectiveness of their “drum beat.” You need your own “drum beat” that sums up the right’s position. Only your “drum beat” exposes the ugly reality of right-wing philosophy – the reality their slogans are meant to hide. Our slogan contains the governing concept that explains the entire right-wing agenda. That’s why it works. You can see it in every policy, and virtually all of Republican rhetoric. And it’s so easy to remember, and captures the essence of the Republican Right so well, we can pin it on them like a “scarlet letter.”
Is there really a catch phrase – a “magic bullet” – that sums up the Republican Right in such a nice easy-to-grasp package. You better believe it, and it’s downright elegant in its simplicity.
You want to know what that “magic bullet” is, don’t you. Read on. You’ve still got two minutes.
Right-Wing Ideology in a Nutshell
When you cut right through it, right-wing ideology is just “dime-store economics” [5] – intended to dress their ideology up and make it look respectable. You don’t really need to know much about economics to understand it. They certainly don’t. It all gets down to two simple words.
“Cheap labor.” That’s their whole philosophy in a nutshell – which gives you a short and pithy “catch phrase” that describes them perfectly. You’ve heard of “big-government liberals.” Well they’re “cheap-labor conservatives.”
“Cheap-labor conservative” is a moniker they will never shake, and never live down. Because it’s exactly what they are. You see, cheap-labor conservatives are defenders of corporate America – whose fortunes depend on labor. The larger the labor supply, the cheaper it is. The more desperately you need a job, the cheaper you’ll work, and the more power those “corporate lords” have over you. If you are a wealthy elite – or a “wannabe” [6] like most dittoheads – your wealth, power and privilege is enhanced by a labor pool, forced to work cheap.
Don’t believe me? Well, let’s apply this principle, and see how many right-wing positions become instantly understandable.
Cheap-labor conservatives don’t like social spending or our “safety net.” Why? Because when you’re unemployed and desperate, corporations can pay you whatever they feel like – which is inevitably next to nothing. You see, they want you “over a barrel” and in a position to “work cheap or starve.”
Cheap-labor conservatives don’t like the minimum wage, or other improvements in wages and working conditions. Why? These reforms undo all of their efforts to keep you “over a barrel.”
Cheap-labor conservatives like “free trade,” NAFTA, GATT, etc. Why? Because there is a huge supply of desperately poor people in the third world, who are “over a barrel,” and will work cheap.
Cheap-labor conservatives oppose a woman’s right to choose. Why? Unwanted children are an economic burden that put poor women “over a barrel,” forcing them to work cheap.
Cheap-labor conservatives don’t like unions. Why? Because when labor “sticks together,” wages go up. That’s why workers unionize. Seems workers don’t like being “over a barrel.”
Cheap-labor conservatives constantly bray about “morality,” “virtue,” “respect for authority,” “hard work” and other “values.” Why? So they can blame your being “over a barrel” on your own “immorality,” lack of “values” and “poor choices.”
Cheap-labor conservatives encourage racism, misogyny, homophobia and other forms of bigotry. Why? Bigotry among wage earners distracts them, and keeps them from recognizing their common interests as wage earners.
The Cheap-Labor Conservatives’ “Dirty Secret”: They Don’t Really Like Prosperity
Maybe you don’t believe that cheap-labor conservatives like unemployment, poverty and “cheap labor.” Consider these facts.
Unemployment was 23 percent when FDR took office in 1933. It dropped to 2.5 percent by time the next Republican was in the White House in 1953. It climbed back to 6.5 percent by the end of the Eisenhower administration. It dropped to 3.5 percent by the time LBJ left office. It climbed over 5 percent shortly after Nixon took office, and stayed there till Carter took office. Jimmy promised to cut the bureaucracy and the right attacked. With that attack our economy tanked and unemployment reached 10%. Regan came in and it magically drops to under 5%. Until Clinton brought it down to 4.5 percent early in his second term.
That same period – especially from the late forties into the early seventies – was the “golden age” of the United States. We sent men to the moon. We built our Interstate Highway system. We ended segregation in the South and established Medicare. In those days, a single wage earner could support an entire family on his wages. I grew up then, and I will tell you that life was good – at least for the many Americans insulated from the tragedy in Vietnam, as I was.
These facts provide a nice background to evaluate cheap-labor conservative claims like “liberals are destroying America.“In fact, cheap-labor conservatives have howled with outrage and indignation against New Deal liberalism from its inception in the 1930’s all the way to the present. You can go to “Free Republic” or Hannity’s forum right now, and find a cheap-labor conservative comparing New Deal Liberalism to “Stalinism.”
Cheap-labor conservatives opposed virtually all of the New Deal, including every improvement in wages and working conditions.
Cheap-labor conservatives have a long and sorry history of opposing virtually every advancement in this country’s development going right back to the American revolution. Cheap-labor conservatives have hated Social Security and Medicare since their inception. Many cheap-labor conservatives are hostile to public education. They think it should be privatized. But why are we surprised. Cheap-labor conservatives opposed universal public education in its early days. School vouchers are just a backdoor method to “resegregate” the public schools.
Cheap-labor conservatives hate the progressive income tax like the devil hates holy water. Cheap-labor conservatives like budget deficits and a huge national debt for two reasons. A bankrupt government has a harder time doing any “social spending” – which cheap-labor conservatives oppose, and . . .
Wealthy cheap-labor conservatives like say, George W. Bush, buy the bonds and then earn tax free interest on the money they lend the government. [Check out Dubya’s financial disclosures. The son of a bitch is a big holder of the T-bills that finance the deficit he has helped to expand.] The deficit created by cheap-labor conservatives while they posture as being “fiscally conservative” – may count as the biggest con job in American history. “Free Trade,” globalization, NAFTA and especially GATT are intended to create a world-wide “corporate playground” where national governments serve the interests of corporations – which means “cheap labor.”
The ugly truth is that cheap-labor conservatives just don’t like working people. They don’t like “bottom up” prosperity, and the reason for it is very simple. Lords have a harder time kicking them around. Once you understand this about the cheap-labor conservatives, the real motivation for their policies makes perfect sense. Remember, cheap-labor conservatives believe in social hierarchy and privilege, so the only prosperity they want is limited to them. They want to see absolutely nothing that benefits the guy – or more often the woman – who works for an hourly wage.
So there you have it, in one easy-to-remember phrase. See how easy it is to understand these cheap-labor conservatives. The more ignorant and destitute people there are – desperate for any job they can get – the cheaper the cheap-labor conservatives can get them to work.
Try it. Every time you respond to a cheap-labor conservative in letters to the editor, or an online discussion forum, look for the “cheap labor” angle. Trust me, you’ll find it. I can even show you the “cheap labor” angle in things like the “war on drugs,” and the absurd conservative opposition to alternative energy.
Next, make that moniker – cheap-labor conservatives – your “standard reference” to the other side. One of the last revisions I made to this article was to find every reference to “conservatives,” “Republicans,” “right-wingers,” and “righties,” and replace it with “cheap-labor conservatives.” In fact, if you’re a cheap-labor conservative reading this, you should be getting sick of that phrase right about now. Exxxxcellent.
If enough people will “get with the program,” it won’t be long before you can’t look at an editorial page, listen to the radio, turn on the TV, or log onto your favorite message board without seeing the phrase “cheap labor conservatives” – and have plenty of examples to reinforce the message. By election day of 2012, every politically sentient American should understand exactly what a “cheap labor conservative” is, and what he stands for.
Now if you stop right here, you will have enough ammunition to hold your own with a cheap-labor conservative, in any public debate. You have your catch phrase, and you have some of the facts and history to give that phrase meaning.
But if you really want to rip the heart out of cheap-labor conservative ideology, you may want to invest just a little bit more effort. It still isn’t all that complicated, though it is a bit more detailed than what we have covered so far.
__________________________________________________
What I don't understand is why people who make less than 75K per year would even think about being a Republican or Conservative. Don't they understand that they're benefiting the rich and greedy. It's like saying "Isn't the Sheriff of Nottingham a wonderful character?" He shows that Robin person just what he is, an outlaw. Yeah right!
How to Defeat the Right in Three Minutes
by Thomas Hicks
by Redneck Party on Monday, August 15, 2011 at 12:48pm
by Thomas Hicks on Friday, May 29, 2009 at 2:18am
Meme-warfare made simple
Recently, GNN came across another digital guerrilla on the frontlines of the meme war. His nom de guerre is the Conceptual Guerilla [1], and for your first taste of his skills, we give you this deft deconstruction of the Right’s economic philosophy:
Have you got three minutes? Because that’s all you need to learn how to defeat the Republican Right. Just read through this handy guide and you’ll have everything you need to successfully debunk right-wing propaganda.
It’s really that simple. First, you have to beat their ideology, which really isn’t that difficult. At bottom, conservatives believe in a social hierarchy of “haves” and “have nots” that I call “corporate feudalism” [2]. They have taken this corrosive social vision and dressed it up with a “respectable” sounding ideology. That ideology is pure hogwash, and you can prove it.
But you have to do more than defeat the ideology. You have to defeat the “drum beat.” You have to defeat the “propaganda machine,” that brainwashes people with their slogans and catch-phrases. You’ve heard those slogans. “Less government” [3], “personal responsibility” [4] and lots of flag waving. They are “shorthand” for an entire worldview, and the right has been pounding their slogans out into the public domain for getting on forty years.
So you need a really good slogan – a “counter-slogan” really, to “deprogram” the brainwashed. You need a “magic bullet” that quickly and efficiently destroys the effectiveness of their “drum beat.” You need your own “drum beat” that sums up the right’s position. Only your “drum beat” exposes the ugly reality of right-wing philosophy – the reality their slogans are meant to hide. Our slogan contains the governing concept that explains the entire right-wing agenda. That’s why it works. You can see it in every policy, and virtually all of Republican rhetoric. And it’s so easy to remember, and captures the essence of the Republican Right so well, we can pin it on them like a “scarlet letter.”
Is there really a catch phrase – a “magic bullet” – that sums up the Republican Right in such a nice easy-to-grasp package. You better believe it, and it’s downright elegant in its simplicity.
You want to know what that “magic bullet” is, don’t you. Read on. You’ve still got two minutes.
Right-Wing Ideology in a Nutshell
When you cut right through it, right-wing ideology is just “dime-store economics” [5] – intended to dress their ideology up and make it look respectable. You don’t really need to know much about economics to understand it. They certainly don’t. It all gets down to two simple words.
“Cheap labor.” That’s their whole philosophy in a nutshell – which gives you a short and pithy “catch phrase” that describes them perfectly. You’ve heard of “big-government liberals.” Well they’re “cheap-labor conservatives.”
“Cheap-labor conservative” is a moniker they will never shake, and never live down. Because it’s exactly what they are. You see, cheap-labor conservatives are defenders of corporate America – whose fortunes depend on labor. The larger the labor supply, the cheaper it is. The more desperately you need a job, the cheaper you’ll work, and the more power those “corporate lords” have over you. If you are a wealthy elite – or a “wannabe” [6] like most dittoheads – your wealth, power and privilege is enhanced by a labor pool, forced to work cheap.
Don’t believe me? Well, let’s apply this principle, and see how many right-wing positions become instantly understandable.
Cheap-labor conservatives don’t like social spending or our “safety net.” Why? Because when you’re unemployed and desperate, corporations can pay you whatever they feel like – which is inevitably next to nothing. You see, they want you “over a barrel” and in a position to “work cheap or starve.”
Cheap-labor conservatives don’t like the minimum wage, or other improvements in wages and working conditions. Why? These reforms undo all of their efforts to keep you “over a barrel.”
Cheap-labor conservatives like “free trade,” NAFTA, GATT, etc. Why? Because there is a huge supply of desperately poor people in the third world, who are “over a barrel,” and will work cheap.
Cheap-labor conservatives oppose a woman’s right to choose. Why? Unwanted children are an economic burden that put poor women “over a barrel,” forcing them to work cheap.
Cheap-labor conservatives don’t like unions. Why? Because when labor “sticks together,” wages go up. That’s why workers unionize. Seems workers don’t like being “over a barrel.”
Cheap-labor conservatives constantly bray about “morality,” “virtue,” “respect for authority,” “hard work” and other “values.” Why? So they can blame your being “over a barrel” on your own “immorality,” lack of “values” and “poor choices.”
Cheap-labor conservatives encourage racism, misogyny, homophobia and other forms of bigotry. Why? Bigotry among wage earners distracts them, and keeps them from recognizing their common interests as wage earners.
The Cheap-Labor Conservatives’ “Dirty Secret”: They Don’t Really Like Prosperity
Maybe you don’t believe that cheap-labor conservatives like unemployment, poverty and “cheap labor.” Consider these facts.
Unemployment was 23 percent when FDR took office in 1933. It dropped to 2.5 percent by time the next Republican was in the White House in 1953. It climbed back to 6.5 percent by the end of the Eisenhower administration. It dropped to 3.5 percent by the time LBJ left office. It climbed over 5 percent shortly after Nixon took office, and stayed there till Carter took office. Jimmy promised to cut the bureaucracy and the right attacked. With that attack our economy tanked and unemployment reached 10%. Regan came in and it magically drops to under 5%. Until Clinton brought it down to 4.5 percent early in his second term.
That same period – especially from the late forties into the early seventies – was the “golden age” of the United States. We sent men to the moon. We built our Interstate Highway system. We ended segregation in the South and established Medicare. In those days, a single wage earner could support an entire family on his wages. I grew up then, and I will tell you that life was good – at least for the many Americans insulated from the tragedy in Vietnam, as I was.
These facts provide a nice background to evaluate cheap-labor conservative claims like “liberals are destroying America.“In fact, cheap-labor conservatives have howled with outrage and indignation against New Deal liberalism from its inception in the 1930’s all the way to the present. You can go to “Free Republic” or Hannity’s forum right now, and find a cheap-labor conservative comparing New Deal Liberalism to “Stalinism.”
Cheap-labor conservatives opposed virtually all of the New Deal, including every improvement in wages and working conditions.
Cheap-labor conservatives have a long and sorry history of opposing virtually every advancement in this country’s development going right back to the American revolution. Cheap-labor conservatives have hated Social Security and Medicare since their inception. Many cheap-labor conservatives are hostile to public education. They think it should be privatized. But why are we surprised. Cheap-labor conservatives opposed universal public education in its early days. School vouchers are just a backdoor method to “resegregate” the public schools.
Cheap-labor conservatives hate the progressive income tax like the devil hates holy water. Cheap-labor conservatives like budget deficits and a huge national debt for two reasons. A bankrupt government has a harder time doing any “social spending” – which cheap-labor conservatives oppose, and . . .
Wealthy cheap-labor conservatives like say, George W. Bush, buy the bonds and then earn tax free interest on the money they lend the government. [Check out Dubya’s financial disclosures. The son of a bitch is a big holder of the T-bills that finance the deficit he has helped to expand.] The deficit created by cheap-labor conservatives while they posture as being “fiscally conservative” – may count as the biggest con job in American history. “Free Trade,” globalization, NAFTA and especially GATT are intended to create a world-wide “corporate playground” where national governments serve the interests of corporations – which means “cheap labor.”
The ugly truth is that cheap-labor conservatives just don’t like working people. They don’t like “bottom up” prosperity, and the reason for it is very simple. Lords have a harder time kicking them around. Once you understand this about the cheap-labor conservatives, the real motivation for their policies makes perfect sense. Remember, cheap-labor conservatives believe in social hierarchy and privilege, so the only prosperity they want is limited to them. They want to see absolutely nothing that benefits the guy – or more often the woman – who works for an hourly wage.
So there you have it, in one easy-to-remember phrase. See how easy it is to understand these cheap-labor conservatives. The more ignorant and destitute people there are – desperate for any job they can get – the cheaper the cheap-labor conservatives can get them to work.
Try it. Every time you respond to a cheap-labor conservative in letters to the editor, or an online discussion forum, look for the “cheap labor” angle. Trust me, you’ll find it. I can even show you the “cheap labor” angle in things like the “war on drugs,” and the absurd conservative opposition to alternative energy.
Next, make that moniker – cheap-labor conservatives – your “standard reference” to the other side. One of the last revisions I made to this article was to find every reference to “conservatives,” “Republicans,” “right-wingers,” and “righties,” and replace it with “cheap-labor conservatives.” In fact, if you’re a cheap-labor conservative reading this, you should be getting sick of that phrase right about now. Exxxxcellent.
If enough people will “get with the program,” it won’t be long before you can’t look at an editorial page, listen to the radio, turn on the TV, or log onto your favorite message board without seeing the phrase “cheap labor conservatives” – and have plenty of examples to reinforce the message. By election day of 2012, every politically sentient American should understand exactly what a “cheap labor conservative” is, and what he stands for.
Now if you stop right here, you will have enough ammunition to hold your own with a cheap-labor conservative, in any public debate. You have your catch phrase, and you have some of the facts and history to give that phrase meaning.
But if you really want to rip the heart out of cheap-labor conservative ideology, you may want to invest just a little bit more effort. It still isn’t all that complicated, though it is a bit more detailed than what we have covered so far.
__________________________________________________
What I don't understand is why people who make less than 75K per year would even think about being a Republican or Conservative. Don't they understand that they're benefiting the rich and greedy. It's like saying "Isn't the Sheriff of Nottingham a wonderful character?" He shows that Robin person just what he is, an outlaw. Yeah right!
Sunday, July 31, 2011
The Definition of Friendship, in three parts.
This was prepared for times when people express to me that they're breaking off relations with one of their friends. When this happens it's usually time for a little self-reflection. That said, I offer the following:
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person..
Part 1
When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need You have expressed.
They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with
Guidance and support, To aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually.
They may seem like a godsend and they are.
They are there for the reason you need them to be..
Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time,
This person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an End.
Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away.
Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.
What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire
Fulfilled, their work is done.
The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.
Part 2
Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has
Come to share, grow or learn.
They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh.
They may teach you something you have never done.
They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy.
Believe it, it is real. But only for a season.
Part 3
LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons,
Things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional Foundation.
Your job is to accept the lesson,
Love the person and put what you have learned to use in all other
Relationships and areas of your life.
It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.
Thank you for being a part of my life,
Whether you were a reason, a season or a lifetime.
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person..
Part 1
When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need You have expressed.
They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with
Guidance and support, To aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually.
They may seem like a godsend and they are.
They are there for the reason you need them to be..
Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time,
This person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an End.
Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away.
Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.
What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire
Fulfilled, their work is done.
The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.
Part 2
Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has
Come to share, grow or learn.
They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh.
They may teach you something you have never done.
They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy.
Believe it, it is real. But only for a season.
Part 3
LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons,
Things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional Foundation.
Your job is to accept the lesson,
Love the person and put what you have learned to use in all other
Relationships and areas of your life.
It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.
Thank you for being a part of my life,
Whether you were a reason, a season or a lifetime.
Friday, July 29, 2011
Thursday, July 21, 2011
The Same Mistakes, Over and Over Again. Why?
I think back to my youth and the Vietnam War. How that it is so similar to what is going on in America these days. I guess we're doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over particularly when corporations make huge money from these wars. Add to that the number of useless deaths of fine young American men and women and this all becomes a no-brainer. The late George Carlin described war as "young men dying for old men's real estate". Which is pretty close to the truth. Why are wars necessary? Because of ideology?
A time has come to stop and take a look at where we've been to get an idea of where we're going. If we don't we're doomed to repeat the same bad ideas over and over again. That said, I invite you to listen to Dr. Martin Luther King's speech about Vietnam, give April 4, 1967 at the Riverside Church in New York. Watch and you'll discover we're re-living the late '60's and the difference is that there's NO draft, hence no youth movement to end the wars. Somehow, we need to mobilize our youth into caring about their future instead of caring if the new Transformers movie is a hit or not.
Watch the video then tell me what you think.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3zwcQlWsPU&feature=player_embedded#at=18
A time has come to stop and take a look at where we've been to get an idea of where we're going. If we don't we're doomed to repeat the same bad ideas over and over again. That said, I invite you to listen to Dr. Martin Luther King's speech about Vietnam, give April 4, 1967 at the Riverside Church in New York. Watch and you'll discover we're re-living the late '60's and the difference is that there's NO draft, hence no youth movement to end the wars. Somehow, we need to mobilize our youth into caring about their future instead of caring if the new Transformers movie is a hit or not.
Watch the video then tell me what you think.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3zwcQlWsPU&feature=player_embedded#at=18
Monday, June 20, 2011
When Did the US Begin Sacrificing Freedom and Democracy for Corporate Governance and Wealth as a Sign of Virtue?
This lady's article reflects that WTF happened to our country with the answer that makes more sense than I've heard in awhile. Give it a read (only about 5 minutes at most) and see if you don't agree. If you don't then ask yourself what you're doing on Big Al's Blog anyway.
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12787
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12787
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Ever Wonder Why You're Paying High Taxes?
A fact that I didn't know was how much these guys used to pay in taxes as opposed to now. America has been steam rolled by Corporate America.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
The Gathering Storm
The below is a somewhat long read but really defines what is happening in the world today. Something big is going to happen. Maybe not today or tomorrow but soon. Maybe it already has and we aren't privy to see it. Maybe we are already seeing it but too apathetic to do anything about it. The above title was taken from Winston Churchill's book about WWII and what transpired to make that happen. History has a strange way of repeating itself and so once again we stand at the precipice. I hate sounding like a DOOM and GLOOM guy but something needs to be done and SOON. Just read the link and you'll understand what the hell I'm talking about.
http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=11590
http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=11590
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Libertarian is NOT a dirty word.
Although I do NOT completely agree with everything in this article, it does make a point. Something like Copernicus telling the Catholic Church to stop telling people that the world is flat and that the Sun revolves around the Earth.
Is it really necessary to have 174 military bases (and the associated cost) around the world? What exactly are we paying for? Security? We need to climb out of this military-industrial complex but sadly I believe it's too late.
http://reason.com/archives/2011/02/16/the-end-of-the-american-centur
I think the last paragraph says it all, so if you're not into reading the whole thing then just take in the last paragraph. Keep an open mind.
Is it really necessary to have 174 military bases (and the associated cost) around the world? What exactly are we paying for? Security? We need to climb out of this military-industrial complex but sadly I believe it's too late.
http://reason.com/archives/2011/02/16/the-end-of-the-american-centur
I think the last paragraph says it all, so if you're not into reading the whole thing then just take in the last paragraph. Keep an open mind.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Journalism Vs. Corporate Propaganda
I posted this on my facebook page as well. But that will pass within 24 hours so for a more permanent location I thought to add it to my blog.
JEANINE MOLLOFF has written and article that says it all for me and what is wrong with the press these days. The word journalism is off the board now and needs to be replaced with opinionism. Seems that not one so called journalist seems to vet a story anymore. Truth be damned, I need a paycheck is all that counts. Read this story and see why journalism is dead in the USA.
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12359
JEANINE MOLLOFF has written and article that says it all for me and what is wrong with the press these days. The word journalism is off the board now and needs to be replaced with opinionism. Seems that not one so called journalist seems to vet a story anymore. Truth be damned, I need a paycheck is all that counts. Read this story and see why journalism is dead in the USA.
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12359
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
America's Money Mess
If you want to know how we got into this financial mess that America and the rest of the world is in take a look at the this video:
It takes 20 minutes to run. At the end of the 20 minutes you may have a different attitude about how this particular depression happened.
Just about all of us weren't around for the Crash of '29 but similarities between the two are staggering. The difference is in how it was handled. Our President opted to increase inflation as opposed to foreclosures on a mass scale and 25% unemployment as was the case in '29. So instead of homeless people all over the place and soup kitchens he opted to increase the national debt. I guess the view on this depends on where your moral values lie.
It also proves that our President doesn't have the balls to stand up to Congress and level with the American people about we've been screwed financially for the past 98 years. It's my opinion that Jefferson had the right idea by abolishing the Fed. And Lincoln had the right idea by offering the "Greenback".
Even if you have money, you're still in debt (don't try and deny it). It's called social control and all governments use money provided by the central banks to do the deed.
You've heard of the Euro? Be prepared because the Amero is right around the corner. The Chinese are closely guarding their money system which is making western world bankers very nervous. I'm guessing here but I suspect an Asian central money type to appear as well or maybe before the Amero.
Just be prepared for what is about to happen. It ain't gonna be pretty. Oh, and isn't it interesting how 10 million in cash can become an additional 9 million in credit to a banker and still isn't real money.
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