I’ve been following closely the recent attempts by the domestic oligarchy in charge of the corporatist-facist state we call America to create a new housing bubble for several years now. For a little while, I was merely confused as to how prices were starting to rise when college graduates have no jobs and are six … Read more
It was just a matter of time before the most powerful crony capitalist bank in America decided to join the housing trade. Making money running the food stamp program just wasn’t enough for Your Crony Highness Jaime Dimon and company, it’s time to join his financial oligarch brothers in the bidding war to corner the … Read more
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. – Justice Louis D. Brandeis How to … Read more
Here is a good, brief article from the NY Times demonstrating the death of the middle class in America using new Federal Reserve data. Not that we need the Fed to tell us about the destruction of the economic and social fabric of the nation, after all, it is their policies that are most responsible … Read more
Federal employees whose compensation averages more than $126,000 and the nation’s greatest concentration of lawyers helped Washington edge out San Jose as the wealthiest U.S. metropolitan area, government data show. The U.S. capital has swapped top spots with Silicon Valley, according to recent Census Bureau figures, with the typical household in the Washington metro area … Read more
Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death. – Adolf Hitler Sometime around the year 2005, perhaps a few years before or after, America will enter the Fourth Turning. A spark will ignite a new mood. It will catalyze a Crisis. In retrospect, the spark might … Read more
Death may come invisible, or in the holy wall of fire In the breath between the markers, or on some black I-80 mile From the madness of the government, to the vengeance of the sea Everything is eclipsed by the shape of destiny – Conor Oberst/Bright Eyes, No One Would Riot for Less 2010 Recap: … Read more
If moderation is a fault then indifference is a crime. -Jack Kerouac Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good. -Buddha Having fallen from the eternal, the Evil One’s desires are endless, insatiable. Having fallen from pure Being, he is driven by the desire to possess, to fill his … Read more
In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied … Read more