War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Interesting view of the worldwide financial meltdown. The global economic crisis is like a Samurai movie, quips Dennis Meadows co-author of the 1970s eco-doom report, ‘Limits to Growth.’ In a Samurai film’s inevitable finale, sword wielding hero and villain clash in a flurry of steel. The two halt and glower at each other before one, always…
First — Shut the fuck up! Karl Rove is not only a nasty-faced, political-turd-slinging asshole, but also a true indicator how this country has been crippled by GOP bullshit interference, which this time around could be costly and maybe fatal. Via Raw Story: Writing in a column in the Wall Street Journal in February, Rove attacked Democrats for…
As all the world’s current problems and entanglements become more tightly bound together in a kind of Gordian knot, one item seems to be fading from any public discourse — the end of oil. Although there’s a lot of deniers out there — especially the current GOP crowd of “Drill, drill, drill” — more than 95 percent…
This so-called “financial meltdown” is indeed a down, but a descent from the base-bottom up — Close to 70 percent of the current unemployed in the US are blue-collar workers despite all the Wall Street blubbering and Rick-Santelli rants about the financial industry. “This is a blue-collar recession, just like we saw in ’81,” said…
A side effect of continuous bad news on the doorstep. This morning in the New York Times: The recession seems to have a sweet tooth. As unemployment has risen and 401(k)’s have shrunk, Americans, particularly adults, have been consuming growing volumes of candy, from Mary Janes and Tootsie Rolls to Gummy Bears and cheap chocolates,…