Billionaires with endless surplus cash to toss around often buy eccentric oddities to amuse themselves, or just because they can. Gold plated ear buds, exotic African animals for their personal zoo, private jets, private islands . . . billionaire husband and wife team Sheldon and Miriam Adelson are so very rich, with almost $22 billion…
Mike received this email from a listener. This is his response to reports of the latest military scandal of a(nother) disgusting abuse of Muslims by our military. What did President Bush say about why they hate us? Because we have freedom? Because we can buy a home? Seriously? One more splash in the…
It has great optics, but what else would you expect from General Electric? On the splashy, shiny surface it appears GE, in it’s great concern for the American worker, has decided to build a manufacturing plant in Grove City, PA. An area which, like so many Midwestern cities, is suffering terribly from the corporate closing…
No, it’s not a forgotten B-grade 1950′s sci-fi thriller, but it might spell true extinction-level disaster for humanity. And – as usual – the corporate media is largely ignoring the pending global disaster in favor of nonstop coverage of the GOP campaign circus and mindless musings on the sex lives of various celebrities. Time magazine…
It’s been awhile, Truthseekers, since there’s been a new blog on this page and I sincerely apologize. It’s a New Year’s Resolution of mine to provide more original content in 2012. But for now, with creative juices depleted by an overdose of wrapping paper and eggnog, I hope you’ll indulge a bit of holiday hilarity…
. . .and if this one fails, we might all be exposed to lethal radiation. This is no joke, Truthseekers. While the mainstream media wastes time and energy on the circus show that is the GOP primary race, a devastating environmental disaster at the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant is being ignored. Read this article…
As in issues likely to be leftover by Congress after the first of the year. the failure of the Supercommittee to devise a budget compromise, the failure of the GOP to produce a definite presidential candidate, and then there’s the Keystone pipeline issue. A reprieve, but not a victory for those of us who think…
Happy Holidays! Here’s a great piece to chew on after the last of the turkey has (finally) been digested. Eric Alterman provides a lucid historical perspective on the OWS movement: Billionaire Media Moguls vs. Occupy Wall Street by Eric Alterman Hundreds of police officers, many wearing riot helmets, marched into lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park early…
In case you missed it – Noam Chomsky had some words of wisdom to impart at Occupy Boston last week. Here’s a transcript: November 1, 2011 | It’s a little hard to give a Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture at an Occupy meeting. There are mixed feelings that go along with it. First of all, regret…
The Teabaggers and other misguided ‘Mericans who believe FOX “News” exemplifies Upstanding American values and Patriotism and Exceptionalism and Apple Pie and all that, somehow overlook the fact that the “news” channel fosters and foments terrorism of the homegrown Timothy McVeigh type. The latest group of dangerous dimwits Fox inspired to violence is a group…
