billions stolen

The Pentagon and the Iraqi government are closing the books and making the figure official; $6.6 billion remains unaccounted. How could we just loose three planes worth of cash? Why isn't this story covered by corporate media? Oh, wait, maybe the Los Angeles Times is corporate, but they published this whopper of a story.

The Cree Indians supposedly stated that only when we (white people) run out of food will we learn that we cannot eat money. That day seems to be getting closer all the time. Can we drink the money when we destroy our fresh water sources? Too many Pennsylvanians seem to be hoping that they can, because they're just asking for Gasland. How did Americans get so stupid?

Corporate media is focusing lots of time covering the Republican race for the White House with the Prophets of Poison. Maybe all the money spent by the right has something to do with American ignorance. Tell a lie often enough and it will seem like the truth.

At least The Immoral Minority is trying to tell the truth.

water, weiners, and waste

I was nine years old when the Clean Water Act was signed into law. Three years earlier I watched the Cuyahoga River burn. Witnessing a major river burn was a big wake-up call for many Americans. Unfortunately our regulatory agencies are now threatened, underfunded, obsolete, inadequate and appear to the victims of regulatory capture. There is a growing body of works that examines the fate of the worlds' water supplies and the ripple effects of our actions.

Meanwhile the mainstream corporate media focuses great attention on Weiner's transgressions and hypocritically ignores the Vitter problem, except for Rachel. The heat should be on Justice Clarence Thomas, but the people suffer more droughts in the making while the money continues to erode just democratic functions.

The weather gets weirder, the institutions become more corrupt and the truth becomes more difficult to discern through the veils of interlocking directorates. They rule and we all loose. For those reasons and more, I am an integrative activist.

Cooperation and regulation helped to solve one severe global problem. We can do more. Here's someone who does a lot.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention revolving doors ( here's a how-to to use the previous link) and the present example of Chris Christie and Edison Schools collaboration to take $800,000,000 from the public and handing to the cronny capitalists. You can read about that here.

That story is chump change when compared to the war profiteering engineered by Dick Cheney, Haliburton, Blackwater and other evil-doers (see comments).

May God help us all to be righteous and free from religion.

watch out

There are many good watch groups. PR watch, labor rights watch, NGO, treaty, global governance etc. It's hard to keep up...there are rights organizations, like global labour rights that act like watches..

There's a story about working conditions in Jordan that reminds of us the triangle shirtwaist factory incident . The men were acquitted of criminal charges, but were forced to pay $75 to each of the victims families. They bad guys then sued the insurance company and were awarded $400 for each victim...nice profit for killing people. Two years later one of those rats locked the doors on workers again.

There are reports of factories that now have netting around factory rooftops to prevent suicide of workers.

So let's just keep our noses to the grindstones so we can have our infotainment and cheap goods. Where is the next Francis Perkins when you need her?

prophesy

A lazy Sunday and the history channel have informed me about the Georgia guide-stones and the lost book of Nostradamus. Meltzer and his team are kind of silly, but they at least approached the rationality advocated by the stones.

It's the simple truth that humanity has become too populous and is destroying the biosphere. It's a hard truth that we choose our destiny.

May we all choose more wisely.

Antifascist Jackpot

Thanks Antifascist for sharing your work.

Don't forget to research Salmon Kahn

Zach Kopplin fights to repeal Creationism

Go Zack, go. Support Zack, support....you can check it out yourself.

Did you know that Saudi Arabia is the only country left that prohibits women from driving? There's a Rosa Parks moment happening there now.

The political center shifts right

The political center has shifted dramatically to the right through the last few decades. This has occurred both in the United States and abroad. Liberty Central uses a Pew poll to support itself and the draconian cuts of the RNC budget proposal. Global Conditions gives us a deeper and broader perspective on the issue.

An Economist's View notes the shift, but seems to remain unaware of policy changes such as a repeal of the fairness doctrine and rules changes about media consolidation that were enacted during the Regan Administration.

The political climate has shifted and Climate Shifts notes that a Koch binge is pushing things to the right which is wrong for the vast majority.

Nixon created lots of regulatory agencies like the EPA and Reagan raised taxes. They'd be considered pinko-commies by today's standards. Don't believe me though, read about it here and here and listen to Rush getting reamed. As for Nixon, you can sock it to 'em, or read about it here, here or there.

To be liberal now...