PinnedOH WELLOH WELL Raising interest rates raises inflation in the economy. Depressed demand caused by raised interest rates brings down inflation by putting people out of work with the restricted market activities caused by the raises in interest rates in markets. Excess profits taxes and price controls on essential goods and…1 min read1 min read
5 hours agoTRUMPS POPULARITYTRUMPS POPULARITY says more about the country than it does about him? It is an open question, an insurrectionist narcissist, loudmouth blowhard, who routinely knows exactly what his listeners want to hear. I talked to one Trumpite who told me it isnt a cult because all of the Trump supporters…1 min read1 min read
6 days agoSPIRITUAL FASCISMSPIRITUAL FASCISM They never left, the you should think like me crowd, the intolerant of others people. They have always been there, it is now their moment in the sun, to tell other people that their truth is the truth. Religions are a curious human invention. This phenomenum is an…1 min read1 min read
May 28AT WARAT WAR The Department of Defence budget? What is up with Congress and the endless wars, the regime change doctrine, the embargoes, the actual business of the foreign policy of the United States is pursuing are the interests of financial elites at the expense of everybody else. It is bipartisan…2 min read2 min read
May 26MONEY TALKSMONEY TALKS Money as speech, corporations as people, elections awash with cash, candidates rated by how much money they have raised. John Somebody’s campaign is on the rise, he’s raised 12 million in two days, from where does not seem to matter, how much does not seem to matter, it…1 min read1 min read
May 23LIVING CORPORATE SOCIALISMLIVING CORPORATE SOCIALISM In our post industrial intellectual World, the word socialism has meant community controlling the means of production, while communism describes, in intellectual terms, government control of the means of production. Reality as a construct along these lines means that today, big “C” Communism has come to mean…1 min read1 min read
May 22FREE JULIAN ASSANGE, JOE BIDENFREE JULIAN ASSANGE, JOE BIDEN Who? A man ignored by the US press, not forgotten, ignored. The NY and DC newspapers published Wikileaks, as did the French and the English press, and nobody has been charged with anything. Wikileaks and Assange took the fall, and have been met with a…1 min read1 min read
May 20CONGRESS AND ITS REALITYCONGRESS AND ITS REALITY The House of Representatives, with 435 members, has 220 Republicans and 215 non Republicans, or 219 to 216, or so, which somehow means the Republicans have a 4 vote majority in the House, the Senate has been fine tuned to be a minority controlled body, it…1 min read1 min read
May 19A CEASEFIRE FOR THE PROXY WARA CEASEFIRE FOR THE PROXY WAR The Hiroshima meeting, at that once obliterated city on August 6, 1945, of World government representatives includes China, but not Russia, it is no longer the G8, it’s the G7, fits this moment in World history. The war in Iraq was a cabal’s war…1 min read1 min read
May 18WORK REQUIREMENTS FOR CONGRESSWORK REQUIREMENTS FOR CONGRESS The schedule I found for the House of Representatives states that in May, 2023: DAYS 8–12, Tues-Fri 15–18, M-Thurs 22–25, Tues-Thurs Congress, that’s the Senate and the House of Representatives, spend about 30 hrs a week fundraising. If there are going to be work requirements for…1 min read1 min read