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The Career in Politics
Why do candidates for Congress spend millions of dollars for an office that pays $169,200.00? Between 2004 and 2006, members of Congress' net worth increased an average of 84% - book advances, speaking engagements, stock and land deals, privileged mortgages, etc.The United States is no longer the representative democracy our ...
News or Propaganda - Following the Finances
In the last article we showed you how to explore the order of the various segments, of programming on network news, and in the media in general. We discussed examining the narrative, (the segment as presented) and how we could find the underlying narrative, (the covert story or point of ...
Big Changes in Pension Plans, but Long Term Care Untouched
There are big changes coming to retirement plans.
In August 2006, President Bush signed into law the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PPA). This law affects both employee funded plans such as 401(k)s and traditional defined benefit pension plans.
Congress was partially motivated by the looming crisis of the Pension Benefit Guaranty ...
Putting Troops on the Border
Millions dead from the initial impact, millions more will die in the months and years to come. This is the scene from ground zero of a nuclear attack. Our future can hold this and much more. What once seemed like something imperceivable has inevitably become a very plausible scenario. Something, ...
Plan 9 From Iraq
I recently compared the war in Iraq to a bad Hollywood movie: green-lit for all the wrong reasons, way over budget and with no end in site. Except this is a b-movie where the horrors come off the screen and unleash hell in reality. Even Saddam mocks us from the ...
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Mexican State of the Union Canceled Due to Controversy
Many people believe that politics in the United States are out of control with the Democrats attacking the Bush Administration, blaming him for Hurricane Katrina and 911? As if the President has power over the weather or is able to talk some sense into evil sneaky bad guys who are ...
The Use of the Atomic Bomb on Japan: Great or Grave
President Harry S. Truman’s decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan to end W.W. II was the best choice out of the options he had. At the time, the pressure to end the war without U.S. bloodshed was mounting on President Truman. He believed a huge invasion of the ...
My Election Musings
America was the big winner in the mid-term election of 2006. The Dem's' control both houses of Congress. So now what? We have Nancy Pelosi as Leader of the House starting in '07. She said she wants to clean up the ethics problem that has plagued us for eons in ...
Explore The Lost Worlds In The Flat World Of Thomas Friedman
Thomas Friedman extends his evangelization of Free Trade and Globalization in his book titled The World is Flat. He isolates different periods in history he calls flatteners that paved the way for Globalization and Free Trade.
First, he ignores the fact that workers have no voice in the process of Globalization. ...
George Washington's Prophetic Vision II
By visualizing the way a massive invasion and occupation might be successfully executed by the most likely enemies in the near future, we can prepare our personal responses. There are several assumptions which should prove valid and some variation probable.
1.) 9/11 was both fair warning and a blueprint for a ...
Animal Farm, and How do I get out of this Vicious Cycle?
I recently read "Animal Farm" by George Orwell, a satirical book in which animals take over a farm and attempt to run it themselves.
The book is often said to be an allegory for the Russian revolution and the Stalinist era and it is but more than that I think it ...
Silent Coup Destroys Democracy in New Zealand
Did you think the New World Order agenda of control and dis-empowerment couldn't possibly take root here in New Zealand?
Well, I've got news for you. It's already here. The last election was bought and paid for by those already in power-with your money. And the Labour government that bought the ...
Will Europe Go Left Or Right
With Merkal in West Germany being pragmatic by pushing through benefit reforms and the big German companies pushing the unions to agree new conditions in exchange for jobs to remain in Germany and respond to Globalisation by moving production to low cost Eastern European or Asian countries. These conditions covered ...
Politics and the 80/20 Principle
We all know by now that the 80/20 principle states that 80% of our business comes from 20% of our customers and 80% of our complaints come from 20% of them as well.
So what do I mean when I refer to an 80/20 principle in politics? If seems to me, ...
A Nation to Die For!
You have been made to believe the government of the United States of America is what you serve to fulfil the commandment to love your neighbor and do your DUTY to God and country. Nothing could be further from the truth. Your parents will not tell you so. Your grandparents ...
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