1950 Buick Roadmaster Have you ever been fired? It knocks your socks off. If you are any kind of person, you always try to do your best, and then, often through no fault of your own, it’s, “Adios.” Pick up your stuff and leave. Try as you might, the one thing you cannot take with […]
CENSORED IN 1978: NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS — ATOMIC LEMONS The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), a national public interest group, has for years been trying to tell the story of nuclear hazards to the American public with little success. Last year, the UCS released a report titled “Scientists’ Group Judges Federal Nuclear Safety Inspection Effort” […]
People who work pay taxes, which fund the government. Sounds simple doesn’t it? Cut spending to reduce government debt. On the face of it, this sounds simple too. Add into the mix that the government is the largest employer in the country and even the dimmest of us can begin to see that it is […]
It was recently announced that the United States would be releasing a new version of Huckleberry Finn that will omit the words nigger and injun. Naturally, this decision is controversial. When you start down the path of open and blatant censorship, the results are never good. It doesn’t matter what the intentions are. When a […]
I listened to Obama, on NPR, laud the fact that we are removing troops from Iraq. Then I heard a carefully scripted NPR discussion about all the expense and corruption that will ensue. When we remove the troops, Obama said we will ramp up our State Department personnel. This will require increased protection that soldiers […]
www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news Please join us for an important and electric discussion around freedom, liberation, self determination and resistance. We will be paying memorial honor to various freedom fighters and activists! Naturally this show will also delve into imperialism, colonization, and numerous forms of slavery (mental, physical, economic, etc). As always we will offer up critical analysis […]
This started with a young kid on my local NPR station discussing whether we can afford to consider tightening safety requirements on nuclear power stations because the requirements may make them to expensive to build. The stations we have were built to withstand what we thought, at the time, would be the worst possible scenario. […]