To Manage and Steer the Peons
Paul Bonneau
2016-12-02 09:41
Column by Paul Bonneau.
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An alternative news site, Breitbart, had an interesting post today about comments Angela Merkel had made. It’s rare to see such a frank admission of what the ruling class is about:
"Digitisation is a disruptive technological force that brings about deep-seated change and transformation in society. Look at the history of the printing press...
Fundamentals
Paul Hein
2016-11-30 09:47
Column by Paul Hein.
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There doesn’t seem to be any debate about the fact that things are seriously wrong in America. The octogenarians among us--present writer included--can recall a vastly different America, with no “checkpoints” or rioting, or SWAT teams, or invasions of foreign countries which had not—and could not--attack us.
But why has this happened...
The Life Story of a Simple Old Chair
Douglas Herman
2016-11-16 08:45
Column by Douglas Herman.
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The fine craftsmen of High Wycombe, in northern England, who made me in 1880 are no longer of this world but of the next. Their young flesh and strong muscles, sinew and tendons turned the pieces, assembled the shaped elm seat to the chair legs, pressed the beech wood rods and rails to the fine figured armrests you see. And then they took their evenings...
Nuclear Warheads as Hostages
Paul Bonneau
2016-11-16 08:16
Column by Paul Bonneau.
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In earlier times, victors in a war would take the sons of the vanquished rulers back home, to raise them as their own. This provided incentive for the rulers of the now-vassal states not to raise Hell any more (after all, it is the rulers, not the people, who start wars). I wonder if a modification of this hostage concept could not be applied to...
Clintonism, Unplugged
Kevin M. Patten
2016-10-30 21:44
Column by Kevin M. Patten.
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“Yes, that is what I would have said, and because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy’s edge, all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. Nothing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all.” ~ Gore Vidal,...
Why the Ruling Class Likes Crime
Paul Bonneau
2016-10-27 07:25
Column by Paul Bonneau.
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Back during the American Revolution there were a lot of radical ideas floating around, one of which was “no standing army.” In those days before police existed, the army was what the rulers used to plunder the productive and keep the people under the rulers’ thumbs: “the sharp point of the spear.” The Crown used it that way in...
Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and Pussy Control
Lawrence M. Ludlow
2016-10-26 08:26
Column by Lawrence M. Ludlow.
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By referencing Prince’s song, Pussy Control, I intentionally draw a link between politics and the intentional trespass of bodily boundaries. And it really does boil down to bodily integrity and respecting boundaries when you closely examine the concept of human rights – something the political process is designed to destroy.
On one hand,...
Backing Bunk
Paul Hein
2016-10-26 08:03
Column by Paul Hein.
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A monetary system that has replaced money with non-redeemable notes that can only enter circulation as a loan is doomed to collapse, and many have warned of that fate regarding our own system of ever-growing debt. Our situation is not unique, however. Governments all over the world have realized the advantage--temporary, of course, of issuing IOUs--never to...
Consent and Secession
Paul Bonneau
2016-10-05 08:48
Column by Paul Bonneau.
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Carl Watner wrote an interesting article, back in 2000, concerning an apparent conflict between government by consent, and the difficulty of secession. At first glance, it appears that if government exists through the consent of the people, then secession should be possible and easy. Yet that is not the case today, or ever. How can that be?
He writes,
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