How the War Depresses the U.S. Economy
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy
The cost of Bush's war on Iraq, left to Obama to 'finish' and clean up, passed the one trillion dollar mark some time ago but has yet to support or prove the old lie that 'wars are good for the economy'. Where is the evidence that the $Trillion$ spent murdering and torturing people in a nation that was, in fact, no threat to the United States, has created a single job on the home front? In fact, those $Trillion$ blown up in Iraq are lost forever --not having created a single new job.
Instead, manpower that might have been employed in productive industries was diverted to destructive and false causes. Instead of creating futures, we will be lucky to escape a tragic past!
The fact is, war is parasitic, destructive not of enemies but of the home front economy. Even if the U.S. should win militarily, the war is lost on the home front where it continues to be paid for by the subversive and depressive effect it has had upon productive industries and activities that provide real jobs, viable opportunities, exports!
PermalinkThe Truth about Immigration
by Mickey Z.
Everything negative you’ve heard about immigration is true. In fact, all the election cycle talk about lazy parasites pouring over borders to leech off another nation’s resources doesn’t go far enough in explaining the gravity of this ongoing crisis. Scream it from the mountaintops (or at least on your blog): Immigrants are destroying any and all hope of for planetary survival. Illegal aliens are Public Enemy #1. Foreigners are terrorists.
If you don’t believe me, just ask any sweatshop worker in, say, Vietnam...
The perfidious colonizers I refer to, of course, are the insatiable transnational corporations setting up camp all across the Third World. Whether it be Nike, The Gap, Wal-Mart, or any other taxpayer-subsidized bloodsucker, these crafty illegal aliens can’t be stopped by constructing a mere wall. They travel with impunity...on the wings of government subvention and cunning, relentless propaganda. Thanks to decades of conditioning, even the victims of these soulless migrants will voluntarily pay for the right to wear a shirt bearing their corporate logo.
9/11 was a Metaphysical Catechism (Test)
By Robert Singer
The Story Behind the Story Behind the Story of how the World Trade Center I and II collapsed on September 11, 2001 is The Most Important issue in the History of the Universe.
I’ll get right to the point, I have read the books and watched the documentaries about September 11 for three years and the 9/11 official story:
Nineteen fanatical Arab hijackers, masterminded by an evil genius named Osama bin Laden, crash airplanes into steel skyscrapers because they “hate our freedom to consume”. Inexplicably the jet fuel, which is basically kerosene that burns at about 400c, took on the qualities of an explosive demolition agent, vaporizing 70 tons of aircraft into a puff of smoke and causing 110-story buildings to collapse into a pile of rubble.
Is so stupid Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld expected you to believe the 9/11 Truth: A rogue element of the US government used controlled demolition to demolish the twin towers.
A jet fuel fire brought down two of the tallest buildings in the world: Improbable, to say the least.
Let me be clear, I agree the US government or some proxy did exploit the events of 9/11 (i.e. Building 7, the Pentagon and Flight 77). [1]
But NO ONE, especially Professor Steven “Cold Fusion” Jones has proven that 110 stories of steel and concrete collapsed into a pile of rubble from controlled demolition.
Washington - Industry Complicity Behind the Gulf Disaster
by Stephen Lendman
It's common practice in America. A government-Wall Street cabal caused the financial crisis and subsequent fallout. Now debated financial reform is a stealth scheme to let bankers self-regulate. Rogue Democrats rammed through health reform to ration care and enrich corporate providers. Defense, technology, and related firms profit hugely from permanent wars, and a regulatory-free Washington - energy industry alliance lies at the root of the Gulf disaster, by far America's greatest ever environmental calamity, worsening daily with no fail-safe, or perhaps any, way to stop it.
Pecunia Emptor
That profit can come about by borrowing money from the Fed at 0% (they are the only ones in the nation with access to this favorable rate at the central bank), and then investing it at 3.5% in Treasuries. This little scam, in which the Fed transfers wealth from those in the US who have actually saved money (mostly retired people) to the big banks, is risk free money for the banks because the Fed has promised this game will go on for “an extended period.” Image
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