President and Congress Back NSA Bulk Surveillance. States Begin to Fight Back.
Sen. Lindsey Graham: So you believe we’re at war with radical Islam? Mike Morrell, former CIA deputy Director: I do. Testimony at Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on the recommendations of the...
View ArticleAOL Tries to Blame Benefit Cuts on Pregnancies
On Thursday, February 6, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong discussed a change in the way the company matches employee contributions to their 401(k) retirement accounts that had been made in October of 2013. The...
View ArticleLife is Much More than Earning a Living
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting...
View ArticleMoney: The Irrational Rationer
Money is a system of power. The more our lives depend on money, the greater our subservience to those who control the creation and allocation of money. –David Korten, co-founder of Yes! Magazine. In...
View ArticleCore Values for a New Economy: First is Equality
And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins.” — New Testament,...
View ArticleLet It Go: Today’s Technology Makes the Pacifica Radio Network Obsolete
News Item: The Pacifica National Board (PNB) unceremoniously fired executive director Summer Reese via telephone conference call in mid-March under circumstances pointing to a complete lack of due...
View ArticleWhy Now? Michael Ruppert’s Suicide
Investigative reporter and former LAPD cop Michael C. Ruppert committed suicide on April 13, 2014, after an edition of his Internet radio show, ironically called “The Lifeboat Hour”. I found out two...
View ArticleMore Core Values for a New Economy: Appreciating Abundance
Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It’s an economic force, it’s a technical force… It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity.—Chris Anderson (Editor, Wired Magazine)...
View ArticleStop Blaming Bloggers for Lousy Journalism!
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. – Thomas Jefferson The man...
View ArticleThe U.S. March to Theocracy
[I]t does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. – Thomas Jefferson When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular...
View ArticleThe Economics of Happiness Conference
February 27- March 1, 2015 The Eliot Center, Portland, Oregon All around the world, thousands of initiatives are demonstrating that we can create a better future: resilient communities, healthier...
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