Editor's Note: Obama continues the U.S. Empire's aggressive policies abroad in Afghanistan. Sherwood Ross fails to consider nonviolent secession as an option here, but otherwise, his analysis is solid.
[...]So here it is, "Cyber Monday", and everyone is online buying gifts for friends and loved ones with credit---that is, DEBT--- that they will never be able to service. And of course the banks that issue these credit cards will experience a massive wave of defaults on Christmas charges. But [...]
There are some days when I weep openly - tear of laughter? embarassment? - at what passes for "analysis" in the Vermont blogosphere.
Take today's post from GMD maestro John Odum.
Full disclosure - as i've pointed out many times at TDM, I read GMD most every day, and learn quite' [...]
Thanksgiving Day is a special day for those following the peak oil news. Geologist Kenneth Deffeyes, author of Hubbert's Peak, predicted that Thanksgiving Day 2005 would mark the peak in world oil production. After that, oil production would decline, irreversibly. And he may have been right. Crude oil production figures [...]
Dear Governor Kunin,
I am writing to urge you to speak out against further deployments of Vermont troops to Afghanistan and withdrawal of VT troops from Iraq, as Obama promised in his campaign. Obama has betrayed the people who elected him on that basis, and will bring ruin to the [...]
The ongoing dance between Vermont’s public majorities versus the state’s private nuclear power plant and its political minions have entered a gray area. Rather than being a black & white issue -- one of pro v. anti -- the lack of effective action and claims to remain neutral throughout the [...]
Regarding Fed Audits, Lies, And The Coming Collapse...
Let's examine this question: Why would Peter Welch (Democrat from Vermont) support a true audit of the Federal Reserve, while Barney Frank (Democrat from Mass) opposes it?
This is a really important question.
Let's take a look at Welch first:
[...]Reprinted from ENERGY BULLETIN
WITH COMMENT REGARDING ORLOV'S ARTICLE FROM MIKE RUPPERT:
One of the best things I ever did at FTW (From The Wilderness) was to bring up good writers and thinkers. FTW was the first to publish Dmitry Orlov who has done so much to prepare us. He desribes' [...]
Reposted from TomDispatch.com
All of us have been watching drought in action this summer. When it hits the TV news, though, it usually goes by the moniker of "fire." As we've seen, California, in the third year of a major drought, has been experiencing "a seemingly endless fire that has burned' [...]
Editor's Note: Official email from Texas Nationalist Movement Daniel Miller to follow. While we in Vermont don't necessarily agree with many of the same principles as our Texas comrades, we share a common interest in the bedrock constitutional principle of nonviolent secession. Good to see Texas, the once and future' [...]
That's right: The US House of Representatives recently passed a 680-billion-dollar defense authorization bill.
However, according to the Boston Globe today: "In March, Obama said he was cracking down on the 'broken system' of military contracting."
Methinks everyone in Warshington is doing crack.
I propose weekly mandatory drug-testing for everyone in all 3 [...]
...and why we're going to be treated to this spectacle.
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Khalid Shaikh Mohammed "Confessed" To Attacking Bank Founded After His Arrest
Fallacy of testimony exposed as story blows up in Pentagon's face [EXCERPT]
by Paul Joseph Watson
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed's alleged confession testimony has been thoroughly discredited after it emerged that one' [...]
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 [...]
WHEN: Monday, November 23rd at 7:00 pm
WHERE: Norwich Congregational Church, Norwich, VT
WHAT; A Public Forum: THE FUTURE OF VERMONT YANKEE
Vermont Yankee, the state's sole nuclear plant, is scheduled to close in 2012. Entergy, the corporate owner of the plant, has petitioned to extend the plant's license for another [...]
It appears that Peter Welch may in fact be the "right" person from Vermont to represent us in D.C. at this moment in time. While I still stand by the principles that formed the foundation of my campaign, and while I still believe that professional politicians like Peter Welch form [...]
From Firedog lake today at:
http://news.firedoglake.com/2009/11/14/the-california-territory/
Buried down in comment #38
[...]While the health care reform debate continues throughout the country, America's indigenous peoples suffer from some of the worse conditions imaginable. Comprising only 1.6 percent of the general population, American Indians and Native Alaskans have not, do not, and more than likely will not receive adequate, if any, health care' [...]
An Afghan woman serving in the Parliament, Malali Joya knows of what she speaks in this eye-opening article.
Last Friday, I was driving and listening to National Propaganda Radio (NPR), and I heard Barack Obama discussing his so-called "four options" with regard to Afghanistan (which essentially appears to be [...]
I didn't write this review of Charles Goyette's new book.
But I read every word.
An important story, one that puts the importance of secession and financial independence in context.
' [...](Mr. Hill is an internationally recognized 9/11 Truth activist who ran against Senator Leahy twice. He has studied the rise of Obama from student to President, and sees no alternative to his being groomed for the job by Brzezinsky and Wall Street as a means for them to continue the [...]
Why would someone go to a movie that is essentially an interview of someone else? Don't we go to movies to be entertained or watch documentaries in order to be inundated with voluminous information and breath-taking cinematography? What would compel anyone to sit for 82 minutes watching some guy chain' [...]
A few of you may have noticed that my blog has been on vacation for many months now. My beloved and I were up to our eyeballs renovating our barn so that I could move my health care practice home, while simultaneously planning a 200-person wedding for the week after [...]
“The American homeland is the planet.” – 9/11 Commission Report
Very rarely do I read a “policy wonkish” book in which I so clearly agree with the diagnosed problem, but feel like the solutions offered leave me completely at sea.
Allison Stanger’s One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and [...]
Apparently, Max Planck once said:
"Science has nothing to do with Nature."
And I just read this subhead in an article:
"Should physics take nature seriously?"
Apparently, Max Planck once said:
"Science has nothing to do with Nature."
And I just read this subhead in an article:
"Should physics take nature seriously?"
This raises this question for me:
What exactly are scientists? Are they human?
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 [...]
In my previous blog on the question, Should Secession Wait for Collapse, I explored how secession and collapse are entwined. Here is an excellent article by Russell D. Longcore, the president of Abigail Morgan Austin Publishing Company. Visit his secessionist website at www.DumpDC.com.
Not so long ago, secession [...]
...even though some claim, with reason, that structural political and economic changes (like decentralization or even secession) need to be made before we can really create a sustainable, peaceful society; and while some argue that national environmental organizations who ignore sovereignty/political issues are wasting energy, I believe that HUMAN ENERGY [...]
Conversations in Congress and across the world are intensifying about how our global society will meet its energy needs and, simultaneously, tackle the challenge of climate change. Yet too little consensus around the urgency (or even reality) of climate change or the direction energy solutions must take are stalling much-needed [...]
The movement promoting Vermont's secession from the United States may be seen by a majority of people as a political issue. This is only partly correct. At an even more fundamental level, secession is all about MONEY.
The world is suffering from a terrible illness. Swine flu?? No. I'm talking about' [...]
Gary Flomenhoft, Sticomythia, Carl Etnier, Frank Smecker, Rob Williams, Dan Weintraub, Carolyn Baker, jcbrook, Gaelan Brown, Lisa Nash, J.Arthur Loose, Common Sense, juliet
