I am trying to come up with a list of do-ables to lob at willing do-ers in the next election. Things that promote VT independence and security that can be done within the existing political framework. The Bank of Vermont is a good example of what I'm thinking about also IRV, simplification' [...]
Dear Bernie Sanders, Patrick Leahy and Peter Welch,
Before another cent or another human being is allocated to fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan, I would like to see you move to re-instate the draft. The US Empire will continue to wage unending war as long as the sacrifice is hidden [...]
The Bushways Inc. slaughter house in Grand Isle VT was closed this week due to violations of federal humane treatment laws documented by an undercover Humane Society employee. I know this kind of horrific shit goes down all over the place at greater scale and probably greater intensity but Grand [...]
So often I ask myself how we've arrived at this sad state of affairs. Well, this guy has some ideas.
' [...]Bernie Sanders Unfiltered: Who Owns Congress
One might hope he'd say it stronger or louder or more incessantly but seems to me he is the only "in the mix" guy that is saying it at all! Also seems to me that accepting our government's fundamental corruption and dysfunction is the first' [...]
Just when you thought it was bad enough having investment firms willing to burn down the entire economy in order to make a buck, now you have investment firms that are going to be wishing and hoping and praying and crossing their claws and squeezing their butt cheeks together real [...]
Why aren't we tossing around the idea of tax protest? The only place I've seen this idea mentioned is in VT Commons a few issues back. When the machine becomes unresponsive to anything but money, isn't that where we should be focusing our efforts? Depriving the machine of money? Why' [...]
One of the first bits I've seen addressing what is fundamentally wrong with healthcare. If the conversation doesn't start here, reform is a sham.
[...]When someone as moderate as Krugman makes this statement: "our political system’s ability to deal with real problems has been degraded to such an extent that I sometimes wonder whether the country is still governable" you know it isn't just the voices in your head.
Here's the link: Missing Richard Nixon' [...]
After reading the first round of opinions published about Whole Foods coming to South Burlington I am struck by the naiveté of those who wrote in support. Given the tremendous volume of information available about the true cost of cheap food, it is thoroughly depressing to hear folks harkening back [...]
Either a healthcare system is designed to make all people healthier or it’s designed to make a few people wealthier. One is a public welfare system and one is a private system. All the arguments being hurled around about cost and bureaucracy and capitalism vs. socialism and free markets and [...]
This is a scan, but very readable. Rolling Stone hasn't released the full article yet.
A fabulous article that makes things about as freakin clear as one can make them.
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No one will argue that Bernie Madoff didn’t deserve to go to prison. However, let’s take a moment to consider why Bernie is going to jail while the Banks That Broke The World, the architects of the derivatives fraud and the real estate bubble fraud, and Hank Paulson, the architect [...]
The other day, my dad asked me if I was planning on taking the kids to Disney World. I said no and he asked if it was due to financial or philosophical restraints. I mumbled something about it being very low on a very long list of priorities but I [...]
The current potentially civilization ending “nuclear” issue on the boards in my neck of the woods is, well, a potentially civilization ending nuclear issue. The 35 year old Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant is applying for a 20 year permit to continue busting out the “green” electricity of which we [...]
Russ just started up and hopes to move on to a discussion of Peak Oil once he works himself through the bailout boondoggle. I find his articles just deep enough to make me feel I learned something yet not so deep I feel like I'm trying to read cyrillic.
' [...]Study paints bleak picture of ethnic diversity
By John Lloyd for The Financial Times
