Check out my review of Michael Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Stor
2009-10-01 03:51:00 My review is the cover story for this week’s Creative Loafing. Or check it here - “Do we want a society based on profit for some, or freedom for all? That’s the choice and question at the heart of this important documentary.”
AT&Ts prophetic vision 1993 - video
2009-09-23 15:57:00 Tom Seleck's voice + AT&T technology = prophetic view of the future from way back in 1993, year of the Great Conjunction/s of Uranus (new technology; progress; science) and Neptune (mass communications; propaganda; dreams) 3x: Feb 2, Aug 20, and the birthday of the modern phase of the New World Order, Oct 24, 1993 @ '18Cap' - Sabian Symbol: "The Union Jack Flag Flies From a British Warship"...Keynote: The protection afforded to individuals and groups by powerful institutions in charge of maintaining order. POLITICAL POWER. (Rudhyar.)Ah, yes, the early 90s, when promises were made to build fibers optics networks across the US for the increased fees added to our bills and yet, they didn't build Jack. What did you do with our money, AT&T? Surveilled much lately?Man, I can hardly wait to see Capitalism: A Love Story.
Capitalism: A Love Story - the trailer
2009-09-22 01:06:00 If you've one of nine people who have read this blog before then you know it was only a matter of time before the trailer for Michael Moore's new film, Capitalism: A Love Story was embedded for your convenience.The other evening I saw this trailer on The Jay Leno Show so I hope you'll get something out of watching it, if you haven't seen it. This is one film that may have be seen in a movie theater (drat! theaters are always too loud for me even with earplugs. But I'll make the sacrifice for this one.)
The American Prophet Micheal Moore Profits From CAPITALISM: A Love Story
2009-09-18 14:15:00 Here we go Again. Yet another inner view with Micheal Moore getting accused of making money from a system that he decries is unfair to all and evil. When will he ever shut up and go away? When will he ever quit doing what he does so well, and that is make true docu/mockumentaries about the American Way. He's been doing this for 20 years now. All his films have been right on the American money and come true. All his films have been renowned around the globe for their truthiness. The prophet has made a profit and American capitalists try to paint him as greedy as they are. They try to put him in their boat with them and throw away the key. "Shut Up" you made your money. Now go away. This is their fondest hope. That Micheal Moore would just go away. Usually in the American money system this means "Don't go away mad,(without any money) just go away". "Please for the Love of God and Money, just Go the fuck away Micheal Moore."Nobody upon will ever be able to prove that Micheal Moore...
Hitler on the psychology of the Big Lie
2009-09-16 18:06:00 Paul Craig Roberts writes on why people believe the Big Lie of propaganda even after the truth is known, and adds Adolf Hitler's advice on the psychology of it and why it works.Speaking of propaganda, I'm waiting patiently for the wide release of Michael Moore's new film, Capitalism: A Love Story, set for October 3rd. I expect much of the current economic propaganda to be outed!Did you miss Moore singing on The Jay Leno Show last night? His performance must be on YouTube by now, but I'll have to search for it later. Right now, gotta motor...
Taking Aim at the Money Men: Michael Moore, Capitalism A Love Story and H
2009-09-07 16:19:00 Micheal Moore unveiled his movie CAPITALISM: A Love Story in Venice. Of course the sarcasm in the title gives what this movie is about away. Asked why Moore continues to take money from big movie mogul companies to make his movies, Moore gave'em this smartass answer. I have my own money to make my own movies and so this will be the last time hopefully that they will give away any of their money. Michael Moore says:"Why have these companies given money to a guy who is diametrically opposed to everything they stand for? "I take advantage of one of the beautiful flaws of capitalism which is that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang himself if he can make a buck. "So they only think about money - they do not really care what I believe, which is upsetting on some levels. "So I was thinking why not make a movie that will guarantee that they will never give me another dime again. "I have saved my money to get to this day, where I will be able to make more movies and not be behold...
Michael Moore: Capitalism, bah!
2009-09-07 02:01:00 Finally, Michael Moore tells us what's really on his mind: Dump capitalism. Not that we should be surprised; his movies are laden with nasty to dishonest attacks on the system and the industry that allows Moore to attack it. But in his latest film, Capitalism: A love story, Moore lays it on the line: "Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy."I'll be anxious to see what Moore's alternative is. Fascism, nazism, communism, socialism all have been tried and failed. Capitalism is the logical extension of democracy, a system based on individual rights, responsibilities, risks, and opportunities. The...
Michael Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story”
2009-08-25 17:28:00 “There’s gotta be some kind of a rebellion between the people that have nothing and the people that’s got it all.” Where is our money? We may not be any closer to an answer, but with Michael Moore on the case…I feel better already.
'Capitalism: A Love Story' by Michael Moore - video
2009-08-23 01:33:00 This trailer about Michael Moore's new film, which debuts on Oct 2, hints that the movie looks promisingly informative and more than a little annoying for Bush, Cheney, Paulson, Bernanke, Congress, Wall Street gentry, and the rest of the heisters who've ruined a world economy so they can build it back to their liking.
The GTL? Sunday Guest Column ? ?Ponzi Scheme Politics? By Christopher L. Do
2009-07-27 05:08:00 GTL? Sunday Guest Columnist: Author And Moderately-Right-Of-Center Political Pundit, Christopher L. Doster Describes The Huge Difference Between Legimate Marketing And Network Marketing Models And Ponzi Schemes… ?Ponzi Scheme Politics? ?We have the greatest business opportunity known to man,... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
capitalism wrote a new blog post: National Day
2009-06-30 07:41:00 capitalism wrote a new blog post: National Day The national day is coming .We are going  to have a seven -day holiday .I am going to Beijing  with paerents .We will visit  the Palace Museum ,the famous museum  in the word . We will also visit some other nice piaces , suchas the Great  Wall , the Summer Palace and Tian’anmen Square  .Beijing ...
By: BackBeat
American Capitalism Gone With A Whimper
2009-05-30 07:46:00 You will find this very interesting; if you're not terrified you haven't been paying attention: Read and weep
American capitalism gone with a whimper
2009-05-30 05:39:00 American capitalism gone with a whimper It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people. True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the ...
By: TexasFred's
Instrument of Power
2009-04-16 00:25:00 By Vi Ransel4/15/09Do you really not understandthat you are an instrument, a tool,used by your "superiors"to conduct their business as usual?While you gather in gangs and packsand beat up others in your economic class,men with your same color and all of the moneykeeping breaking it off - Big Time - in your ass.You keep bending over, taking it, their authority, that is,obediently doing all of their dirty work.You allow them to take everything for themselvesand all you get it is this lousy T-shirtthat says "white power". Not yours. Theirs.If you had any, power, that is,you'd be openly pissed off at the cause - them -and stop beating up on people who are only the symptoms.While Richie Rich was outsourcing our jobsand foreclosing on Americans' homes,shutting off Grandma's electricityand turning her healthcare claims downyou were busy beating up Black guys,Mexicans, Arabs and Asiansinstead of standing up and facing the factyou'll never be - and never were - one of them,those guys on ...
Daniel McGowan, Another "War on Terrorism" Victim
2009-04-11 23:07:00 AP Photo and captionDaniel McGowan waves to friends and relatives as he is lead back to the Lane County jail in Eugene, Ore. , after a court appearance, in this Jan. 25, 2006, file photo. In June 2007, McGowan was sentenced to seven years in prison for arson by a federal judge in Eugene who heard a number of cases involving the activities of the radical Earth Liberation Front.By Stephen Lendman08 April, 2009Of so-called "eco-terrorism" in his case, a term believed coined by Ron Arnold, executive director of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise (CDFE), a radical right wing group established on July 4, 1976 "to continue (the) Revolution of liberty, free enterprise and individual initiative....without hindrance by government."According to Sourcewatch:"Arnold blurred the boundaries between nonviolent civil disobedience and more contentious tactics such as vandalism and sabotage," (mostly rejected by environmentalists) by equating property damage to "terrorism as a societal thre...
Freedom: The ?Operative? Idea of Capitalism
2009-04-11 00:16:00 I believe it was Glenn Reynolds who last week linked Janet Daley’s wonderful defense of capitalism in the wake of the G20 protests advocating the overthrow of the free-market system. In this essay in Britain’s Telegraph, Ms. Daley offers one of the best nutshell defenses of capitalism I have read in recent days: It is in the ...
By: GayPatriot
Prayer for the Dying: The Thing Worse than Rebellion
2009-04-09 11:13:00 By Jason Miller4/9/09?The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.?--Frederick DouglassIn an eerily ironic twist of fate, less than a month after I wrote a satirical interview with a despicable, fictitious proponent of our anthropocentric and ecocidal American Way of Life[1], an avaricious and bellicose way of life that is definitely a ?thing that causes rebellion,? I found myself engaged in an email exchange with a rabid and very real mouth-piece for our capitalist culture of death and domination. But before I get into the emails themselves though, let me establish the basis for our fascinating ?dialogue.?To maintain its hegemony, the ruling class of the dominant culture has to rally the masses against an existential threat in order to justify the existence of a police state apparatus in our so-called ?liberal democracy,? or as my ?email friend? semi-accurately pointed out, constitutional republic (more on that later). Fortunately for them, the crypto-fascist ...
?Bailed Out? JP Morgan Chase Presents $138 Million Dollar Plan To Purchase
2009-03-24 03:27:00 JP Morgan Chase Chairman Jamie Dimon Scratches His Head, Can’t Understand Why Corporate America Has Such A Bad Image First of all, let us all take a moment to thank former President “Surge” W. Bush for bringing this latest corporate “bailout” scheme (ABC News) thanks... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Pros & Cons of Kickstarting Capitalism
2009-02-10 23:34:00 Today's Obama "Yes We Can" - A stranger was seated next to a little black girl on the airplane when the stranger turned to her and said, "Let's talk. I've heard that flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger."The little girl, who had just opened her coloring book, closed it slowly and said to the stranger, "What would you like to talk about?""Oh, I don't know," said the stranger. "Since you are a Negro, do you think that So-called President Elect Barak Obama is qualified for the job?" and he smiles."OK", she said. "That could be an interesting topic. But let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff 'grass '.Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, and a horse produces clumps of dried grass. "Why do you suppose that is?"The stranger, visibly surprised by the little girl's intelligence, thinks about it and says, "Hmmm, I have no idea."To which the little girl replies, "Do yo...
Defending Capitalism with Confidence & Humor
2009-02-08 20:21:00 We need to become more like Milton Friedman in the clip below, defending capitalism coolly with confidence and humor. And not giving in to the assumptions of our intellectual adversaries. (H/t Instapundit).
By: GayPatriot
Happy Black Friday To All ? Including Those Wal-Mart Employees Who?ve Survi
2008-11-28 20:46:00 Wal-Mart Early Bird Specials Bring Death, Misery And Injuries To Workers And Shoppers Rest In Peace, womever you are; an unidentified worker at Wal-Mart’s Valley Stream store in Long Island, N.Y. Your death at the feet of “eager” Black Friday “early bird specials”... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Death Tolls For Western Imperialism, Colonialism and 3rd World Capitalism
2008-11-15 12:23:00 Via Gideon Polya. In general, the figures are post-WW2. He also takes to task the "incompetent governance" in South Asia (Bangladesh, Nepal, India and Pakistan) with massive deaths.The Global Avoidable Mortality blog looks pretty interesting, and I have mucked around there a bit.The part about 500 million dead Muslims post-1950 looks pretty interesting, but I haven't looked into that yet.More Polya here.Total excess mortality per year as of 2004:Iraq 122,000Afghanistan 359,000India 2.2 millionPakistan 478,000Bangladesh 288,000In Iraq and Afghanistan, those are the excess deaths that are probably occurring due to Coalition activities (especially in Iraq). In Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, the excess deaths are probably due to the lack of socialism.
By: Robert Lindsay
Creative Capitalism vs. Compassionate Capitalism
2008-10-27 06:07:00 I thought that it'd be interesting to compare and contrast two concepts of capitalism as promoted... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Creative Capitalism vs. Compassionate Capitalism
2008-10-27 06:07:00 I thought that it'd be interesting to compare and contrast two concepts of capitalism as promoted... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Chomsky: US capitalism anti-democratic
2008-10-13 00:13:00 Anti-Democratic Nature of US Capitalism is Being ExposedBy Noam Chomsky"Bretton Woods was the system of global financial management set up at the end of the second World War to ensure the interests of capital did not smother wider social concerns in post-war democracies. It was hated by the US neoliberals - the very people who created the banking crisis," writes Noam Chomsky. #~:~In searching this blog for references to the Bretton Woods Treaty (which established the World Bank) I discovered a small mention in my post on the day of the mysterious fire in the VP's office of Dec 19, 2007...remember?
Hating Unfettered Capitalism
2008-09-30 16:00:00 The isms of the Pluto-Chiron pair are all around us, capitalism and fascism being perhaps the most noticeable since the suddenly recognized financial crisis emerged from the depths of George Bush's fertile brain and Wall Street's back pocket already well-lined. Once again: Pluto-Chiron conjunction Dec 30, 1999 '12Sag': "A Flag Turns into an Eagle That Crows" with their parallel (similar to a
Smash And Grab Capitalism, The GOP, And You
2008-09-17 22:54:00 The entire world right now is watching the American economy shudder and stumble under the burden of millions of bad investments. Some of the oldest and most powerful financial institutions in America have collapsed in the past few weeks, leaving all of us wondering how this could possibly have happened. The how is ...
By: The AV Club Blog
Capitalism Starves 9 Million People Every Year
2008-09-08 05:46:00 Every day in this world, capitalism kills 25,000 people either from hunger or diseases related to hunger. In other words, capitalism starves to death 25,000 people every day. In a year, capitalism kills 9.125 million people from hunger and hunger-related diseases alone.Capitalism starves to death one kid every five seconds. But when it comes to killing kids, capitalism doesn't just use starvation. Like a murderous Felix the Cat, Killer Capitalism has plenty more deadly tools in its Bag of Tricks. All in all, capitalism kills 10 million kids every year.Eat that, market fetishists.Wow, if this is the successful system, I almost want to say, let me check out the failed system. instead. Or this failed system. Compared to being starved to death by the successful system, I think I'll go with the failed systems and see if I can get enough to eat at least?It's clear that Communism and to a lesser extent socialism has some problems with production and running a rational and functioning e...
By: Robert Lindsay
Does Capitalism lead to ?Heterosexism??
2008-09-06 18:45:00 Over at Volokh, David Kopel asks: do VC readers know of any serious research about a link between heterosexism and capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy and male-dominated privilege? My initial impression is the cause and effect theory of heterosexism is quite wrong. Communist dictatorships, for example, are often quite hostile to homosexuals; yet Communist states are not ...
By: GayPatriot
Socialism Wastes Money, Capitalism Wastes Humans
2008-08-31 13:19:00 The latest death toll figures from Hurricane Katrina can be seen on this website here. The famous Russian neo-Nazi video is on this blog here.Updated September 2:There has been a lot of talk, even by socialists, of the profound "wastefulness" inherent in various Communist economic systems. As I'm not an economist, I don't really understand what they are talking about.However, I can give you a few ideas.In recent years, Cuba has revolutionized organic agriculture to where they probably have one of the most highly developed organic ag systems on Earth. For starters, Cuba has more agronomists per capita than anywhere else on Earth. During the Special Period, they were put to word devising organic solutions to problems that were previously solved by industrialized agriculture.Right now, in the intensive organic farming collectives all over Havana, crop yield has reached some of the highest levels on Earth per unit of land. And that's with a 100% organic system. Now, who ever said tha...
By: Robert Lindsay
The Necessity and Benefits of Unions in Capitalism
2008-07-27 07:31:00 Responding to my Unions and Wage - Productivity Increases post, James Schipper notes:You are quite right in arguing that no capitalist will increase wages as long as he can hire more workers at the going wage. That's why it's important to restrict the supply of labor within a country by immigration controls and by convincing workers to limit their offspring.One 19th French economist was once asked what advice he had for the proletariat, and he answered: "Faites moins d'enfants" = make fewer babies. Not bad advice. As long as the proletarians keep increasing their numbers, their chances of prospering are so much smaller.With open borders, the very large number of unskilled workers in the Third World are a huge reserve army of the unemployed.And then some people still wonder why so many capitalists like immigration.I quite agree with you that unions can be very beneficial for their members. However, it is very doubtful that unions can do much for the wage-earning class as a whole.S...
By: Robert Lindsay
The "Benefits" of Deregulated Capitalism
2008-07-23 09:10:00 Lack of regulation in capitalism leads to the ability to roll up huge gains in wealth for those at the top of the food chain, and also leads to huge economic disasters on a national scale such as we are experiencing now. The italicized portion of the previous sentence is precisely why business, the rich, the media and the plutocratic political parties in the US (originally the Republican Party, but now both parties), support the deregulation of the capitalist system in the US and all over the world.The verdict is in on the deregulation of capitalism that has been the rage all over the world for the past 30 years. Almost everywhere it has been tried, it has caused massive discrepancies in wealth distribution. The top 20% of the income earners everywhere on Earth have benefited, and the bottom 80% have lost out.That's why Latin America has been voting in leaders who have campaigned on platforms that can be roughly translated as the hell with neoliberalism. Far from being Leftists or ...
By: Robert Lindsay
The People's Republic Of Capitalism. But I Digress.
2008-07-19 11:26:00 Excellent post over at the inside-out China blog on Ted Koppel's recently completed Discovery Channel show, "The People's Republic of Capitalism." The post really shines in analyzing the views of some of the Chinese nationals who spoke during the series and how those views fit in with China's history. It is just a really good piece and I suggest you check it out. The other day, in a post entitled, "F-ck China Culture Lessons. Give Me Anthony Bourdain With No Reservations," I lit into (a bit) courses that purport to teach Chinese culture. The thesis of my post was that one can learn more about how to deal with people of other countries (including China) by watching Anthony Bourdain than by attending a "How to do business in China" class that teaches you not to bring four gifts (hey, that's bad luck) or white flowers (that's death, baby). Just as an aside, I have never known anyone who has given out or received white flowers as a business gift! In response to that...
By: China Law Blog
China: The People's Republic Of Capitalism
2008-07-06 22:58:00 Beginning Wednesday, July 9, and for four straight nights, the Discovery Channel will be running Ted Koppel's "People's Republic of Capitalism." The series will focus on China's economic growth and what this means for the United States. Much of the filiming is in Chongqing. Koppel is a good and fair minded journalist, so I would expect this series to be at least decent. To learn more about it, go here and here.
By: China Law Blog
Problems of Democracy Under Capitalism
2008-06-11 07:13:00 Updated June 18:I've always been opposed to public dishonesty, which is one of my problems with Communist states. They lied about so many things that now even when they tell the truth, people figure that "All Communists lie," so they are unlikely to be believed even when they are honest. You get a "boy who cried wolf" syndrome.Well, capitalists are pretty much the same. Almost all capitalists will always lie to defend their own interests. That is why whenever a businessman or business interest is quoted in the paper on some controversial issue, they are almost always lying. So it seems that in order to be a businessman in capitalist society, one must lie continuously.There are cultures, such as Arab, Japanese, Thai and Filipino culture, where lying is definitely a state of art. American society proscribes all lying as evil, and your average American will tell you that he never lies. The Japanese mindset, which I subscribe to, is, "Only an idiot never tells a lie."So there is a time...
By: Robert Lindsay
Only fools want China influencing our [Canadian] future
2008-06-01 05:26:00 Those Canadians who hope to see the new Asian giants rival the U.S. in a few decades as the great global engine and the new big market for Canada simply do not realize that such a change would be an unmitigated disaster for us. China is a brutal one-party dictatorship, a mixture of totalitarianism and unbridled ...
By: 1913 Intel
Is capitalism a religion we have taken too far?
2008-05-23 10:15:00 by Roland Michel Tremblay Is pure capitalism a religion we have taken too far? George W. Bush may wish to talk about God as much as he wants, his track record and the one of his family, up to his grandfather and great grandfather, speak for themselves. The Bush family has only one God and one religion, it has nothing to do with Christianity, but everything to do with making money. Pure capitalism and pure greed to the extreme is our only religion. I feel it is difficult to speak of capitalism as a whole, without falling in numerous traps and being accused of not knowing what I am talking about. So first thing I did was to go on Wikipedia, then I stopped myself. Don’t get me wrong, I will read it and say what I think of it, but first capitalism must be, before anything else, what the people inside really feel it is. Not the perfect book definition that we all wish it to be, because in practice we know capitalism has evolved into something else, that many consider a rea...
In Twofer, Paper Makes Fun of American History And Capitalism At same Time
2008-05-23 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Here is a story in a small paper in Philadelphia that serves as a fine example of the junk that all too often passes for “journalism” in America today. This example is as ridiculously anti-intellectual and dismissive of the importance of preserving our history as it is anti-corporate. It’s a fine example ...
By: Publius Forum
EU to ?protect? citizens from capitalism?
2008-05-22 21:38:00 Full story here. Use ShadowTraders to protect yourself from busybody bureaucrats, sleazy brokers and any of the other pitfalls of capitalism. “A top cast of European statesmen has issued a blistering denunciation of financial markets and called for a creation of a pan-EU body to protect the citizens against the “social risk” posed by modern capitalism. “The ...
Capitalism Normalizes Sociopathy
2008-05-19 12:14:00 From a book review of Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America, by Steven Bloom. We just discussed Postville a few days ago on this blog. For background information on the Postville Hasidim kosher plant story, see the previous post. Here is another review of the book from the Jewish Tribal Review. JTR is a very problematic site and Chad Powers is a most provocative author, but this review is pretty fair to Jews.A New York Times review and a Boston Globe review are sort of disgusting, seeming to defend the Lubavitchers and condemn Bloom as a bad guy.This book looks at how tensions gradually erupt between locals and Hasidic Jews who opened a kosher slaughterhouse in a rural farming community. This book was written by a secular Jew from the West Coast who had moved to Iowa to take a job as a university professor.While the author certainly has issues of his own (He actually cites the scoutmaster mentioning Jesus Christ at his son's Boy Scouts meeting as an example of antisem...
By: Robert Lindsay
Gravediggers of the world unite! Capitalism Must Die….
2008-05-17 01:49:00 by Jason Miller “What this means is that corporations and those who run them cannot stop exploiting resources and amassing wealth until they have… .I cannot finish this sentence, because the truth is that can never stop; like cancer, they can only continue to expand until they kill the host.” –Derrick Jensen(Perhaps my profane words will offend, but in light of the fact that we are in a race to eradicate capitalism before it renders the Earth uninhabitable, I don’t give a fuck). Yes. It’s another anti-capitalist rant by Jason Miller. Big surprise! I’m the associate editor for Cyrano’s Journal Online, the anti-capitalist tool. We’re not big fans of free market ideology and its tacit socioeconomic license to rape, pillage and plunder. Here’s a novel idea—if you don’t like my diatribes against the predominatingly rotten-to the-core system that ensures the most despicable human beings wield the most power, don’t read them! And you relentless “keepers of the faith,” daz...
Gravediggers of the world unite! Capitalism Must Die?.
2008-05-12 08:17:00 Cyrano’s latest post — Gravediggers of the world unite! Capitalism Must Die?.. A long rant. Unfortunately, he’s right about most of his points.
Capitalism at $4 a Gallon?
2008-05-07 07:48:00 If the Bush invasion of Iraq was a "war for oil," it has been a war for expensive not cheap oil. The crackpot assertions of Bush administration policy planners ? that war would "pay for itself" or the U.S. would take oil profits from the Iraqis as the price of their "liberation" ? aside, the price of a barrel of crude oil is today at an all time high. Meanwhile, the U.S. government has done absolutely nothing to advance alternative energy programs. Instead, the administration, which has a "special relationship" with the most reactionary sectors of the capitalist class in the U.S., that is, the energy companies and the large military contractors, has done everything in its power to sabotage international alternative energy programs, which has not only increased the price of oil but has also obstructed international environmental protection policies. Why is the administration doing this? Mainly, it is indifferent to the consequences to most working families of expensive oi...
By: Circle of 13
Capitalism Kills 10 Million Kids a Year
2008-05-07 04:49:00 Updated May 8:I've had it up to here with this "100 million killed by Communism", "Stalin and Mao, the biggest murderers of all time". No Communist except Pol Pot ever held a candle to what capitalist serial killers and mass murderers do year in and out without fail.As you can see, 200 million kids around the world don't have access to any kind of basic health care (I would argue that that figure is way too low), which kills 10 million of them (5%) a year due to completely preventable diseases like pneumonia and diarrhea.And if you are going to start bitching about overpopulation?Number 1, why are you are capitalist? Capitalism mandates and demands an endlessly expanding population. Capitalism says a declining or even steady population is going to be a catastrophe for the capitalist economy.Number 2, if the world is overpopulated and 10 million dead kids is great news, maybe it's time to shut up about "Commie mass murderers". Can't have it both ways.I would like to point out tha...
By: Robert Lindsay
China Leaves Small Investors Behind on Road To Capitalism
2008-05-05 05:48:00 Important lesson for novice investors when market is overheating. Take heed! "I was greedy," Ma admitted. As a consequence, "I lost more than 80 percent of my total... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Subsidies and Tariffs are Anti-Capitalism
2008-05-04 00:00:00 Subsidies and Tariffs are Anti-Capitalism
Pseudo-Capitalism in Disarray
2008-05-03 11:14:00 by Stephen Bindman, Ph.D From Stephen Bindman's forthcoming book: PSEUDO CAPITALISM: Socialism for the Rich The Flatlanders Continue to Deny That We Live in a World of Statist Economies As the US economy tips over, the government once again intervenes and the Federal Reserve is its arm. But who will benefit? The current ruling eliteÂ’s argument has been to act with interest rate and liquidity interventions, while mystifying and pretending to obey the apparently "divine" function of the "free market." Actions in the current crisis have made this attitude increasingly described and questioned. The contradiction between what members of the new elite, directors of our economic system mandate for the majority of society and what they do to profit for themselves and their fellow elitists - members of "the class of Davos"-becomes increasingly visible and annoying to the rest of the world. As the Flatlanders fatten their coffers, underwriting th...
Alternative Income Neglect
2008-04-30 13:33:00 Over the past month or so, I’ve been working on some new projects outside of the Grumpstump. Combined with the wedding (if any of the groomsmen are reading this I need your tux measurements!) I have been a very busy boy. This of course, has left little time to think up snide remarks for people who ...
By: The Grumpstump
New York Times Attacking Textbook Makers, Veiled Attack on Capitalism
2008-04-29 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston College textbooks are overpriced and something should be done. Why, Congress should even step in! That is the message that The New York Times wants us to understand and I can't say it is, in and of itself, entirely the wrong message -- save the whole bit ...
By: Publius Forum
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