Ellen Brown at the excellent “Web of Debt” Blog has revealed startling information about our personal savings accounts. As many readers may know, the small Island nation of Cyprus may or may not begin “taxing” the savings accounts of depositers in an effort to comply with European Union austerity demands. Up to 10% of individual […]
Tom Clements, head of Colorado Department of Corrections Was shot dead on Tuesday evening. The intrigue in this murder is reminiscent of the Killing of Michael Francke, head of Oregon prisons in 1989. Huffington Post reports: “MONUMENT, Colo. — The executive director of the Colorado Department of Corrections was shot and killed when he answered […]
Richard Millhouse Nixon, the most loathed and tragic figure of the Republican Party until George W. Bush, has yet another nail in his coffin. The Atlantic Wire has a great article about some newly released tapes from the Johnson Presidency: “Rumors and whispers of Richard Nixon’s ‘treason’ — sabotaging Vietnam peace talks to help his […]
Well, there certainly is a lot of “happy talk” about the selection of the new Pope yesterday. First from the Americas! First Latino! Advocate of the poor! But beneath that thin veneer is yet another dark history of the Catholic Church. Pope Francis (Bergoglio) is from Argentina. In “Inside The Vatican, Part 3” we took […]
Many readers have probably heard that Texas has approved a revisionist view for their school textbooks. From The New York Times: “AUSTIN, Tex. — After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing […]
Come on, everyone but Republicans in the Confederacy (ever expanding) knows that Dick Cheney ran the country for at least eight years while George W. Bush watched Beer commercials on ESPN. The epic failure (or intentional sweeping under the rug) of intelligence leading up to 911 has been contested since the World Trade Center was […]
And now for something a little lighter: Melanie Safka was one of those performers that played late at night during Woodstock. She is most remembered today for the Am song “I got a brand new pair of roller skates” or some such title. But here she is with The Edwin Hawkins Singers (“Oh Happy Day”) […]
While political chicanery has been driving articles on Dojo Rat lately, I would be remiss for not commenting on the decision of the Olympic committee to drop wrestling as an Olympic sport. From The New York Times: “Wrestling, one of the earliest and most elemental Olympic sports, was dropped from the Summer Games on Tuesday […]
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