Sunday, January 29, 2006
Friday, January 27, 2006
Sunday, January 22, 2006
U.S. Appeasement of Iraqi Insurgents
Classic divide and conquer to keep the people down. As usual, the U.S. is funding both sides of the conflict. After all, no conflict means no good reason for the occupation.
Saturday, January 21, 2006
Class Warfare: IRS Wrongfully Targets the Poor for Fraud
The IRS deliberately and wrongfully classified millions of poor people as having filed fraudulent tax returns, even though they didn't. Through no fault of their own, their tax returns were withheld and they continue to have to live in fear of being prosecuted. Meanwhile, Tonyaa Weathersbee fires back here, asking whether the IRS overlooks real tax fraud among the prosperous. Left I on the news is blogging on it here.
What I'm wondering is if, instead, it was mainly just a convenient way to hold onto and play with a sizable bit of money belonging to people who wouldn't be able to come after it. Or, was it a more sinister attempt to disempower more people and drive them to measures which will ultimately help line the profit margins of, and provide an increased pool of virtual slaves for, the increasingly privatized prison industrial complex, a bit like the lengthier punishments for black cocaine than white cocaine helped ensure more forced labor was sucked from blacks.
Add this to the mass of history unlikely to appear in school books!
What I'm wondering is if, instead, it was mainly just a convenient way to hold onto and play with a sizable bit of money belonging to people who wouldn't be able to come after it. Or, was it a more sinister attempt to disempower more people and drive them to measures which will ultimately help line the profit margins of, and provide an increased pool of virtual slaves for, the increasingly privatized prison industrial complex, a bit like the lengthier punishments for black cocaine than white cocaine helped ensure more forced labor was sucked from blacks.
Add this to the mass of history unlikely to appear in school books!
Saturday, January 14, 2006
Friday, January 13, 2006
Big Brother is Listening to Every Single Phone Call
And more of the latest on the expansion of totalitarianism in the U.S.
It should come as no surprise that now an NSA whistleblower confirms the existence of U.S. black ops and a federal tele-surveillance system that monitors, analyses and flags every U.S. phone call for key words and phrases, including yours and mine. After all, it's practically common knowledge that Britain has all of London under video surveillance. Bush II declares he is not in violation of the U.S. constitution for spying on U.S. citizens without warrant because he believes he has not just the right but the responsibility to violate the U.S. constitution, a document which Bush insist is, after all, "just a goddamned piece of paper." Total information Awareness was leaked to the general public shortly after the government used the tragedy of 2001 as a pretext to unleash all kinds of horrors--wars, surveillance, sneak and peak, black ops, and covert torture centers where at least U.S. generals still have the constitutional right not to incriminate themselves. Meanwhile, the IRS is tracking taxpayers political affiliation, and, yes, of course, the NSA is using city police to track political activists. Just the latest!
How do we stop this totalitarian escalation?
It should come as no surprise that now an NSA whistleblower confirms the existence of U.S. black ops and a federal tele-surveillance system that monitors, analyses and flags every U.S. phone call for key words and phrases, including yours and mine. After all, it's practically common knowledge that Britain has all of London under video surveillance. Bush II declares he is not in violation of the U.S. constitution for spying on U.S. citizens without warrant because he believes he has not just the right but the responsibility to violate the U.S. constitution, a document which Bush insist is, after all, "just a goddamned piece of paper." Total information Awareness was leaked to the general public shortly after the government used the tragedy of 2001 as a pretext to unleash all kinds of horrors--wars, surveillance, sneak and peak, black ops, and covert torture centers where at least U.S. generals still have the constitutional right not to incriminate themselves. Meanwhile, the IRS is tracking taxpayers political affiliation, and, yes, of course, the NSA is using city police to track political activists. Just the latest!
How do we stop this totalitarian escalation?
Friday, January 06, 2006
Replay: Let Them Eat Toxic Gumbo
Millions more dinners are being stripped from tables because congress allowed the tax burden for the cost of cleaning up corporate chemical disasters to shift from the corporations to the general public. John Rumpler (President of the Board for Environmental Action) and Alex Fidis (superfund advocate at U.S. PIRG) examine how untold gulf-coast residents may be left to eat toxic gumbo because corporate polluter's go unchecked and congress allowed the toxic-clean-up superfund to go bankrupt. Loopholes in the law, such as "act of god," leave the corporate polluters immune from having to correct the public's loss of the right to a healthy environment. Rumpler and Fidis offer some cost-saving, common sense solutions that deserve repeating as we struggle to learn lessons from the human-created disasters of negligence and greed exposed by hurricane Katrina.
Resist Fascism
Bob Burnett compares the Bush regime to Laurence Britt's lists of "14 characteristics of fascist governments" outlined in "Fascism Anyone?"
Three Homeless People Die In Study That Served Free Alcohol
But the study otherwise indicated good results from providing the homeless with free alcohol.
Sunday, January 01, 2006
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