This morning, I woke up to read an article on Ars Technica about the new pat downs that are coming to the nation's airports. They intend to be extremely thorough. This, of course, is to embarrass people into sheepishly heading over to the full body scanners because they don't want to be embarrassed. It is yet another piece of security theater designed to get you to step over to the backscatter line and do a ...

For a moment this morning, I confess that I found myself on the edge of my seat in the middle of the Halloween special edition of the Today show.   As a corporate media critic, an academic, and a professional with a regular day job, such a confession could be damning, as if I were a militant vegan caught red-handed choking down a Sloppy Joe.   In my defense, however, I wasn’t riveted by a middle-aged Meredi ...

A guy who calls himself “Keith in Seattle” posted this comment on my blog: “New numbers posted today on the Treasury Department website show the National Debt has increased by more than $3 trillion since President Obama took office. The National Debt stood at $10.626 trillion the day Mr. Obama was inaugurated. The Bureau of Public Debt reported today that the National Debt had hit an all time high of $13.66 ...

Coups, Destabilization, & Disavow: American as Apple Pie By: Solomon Comissiong "The propaganda system allows the U.S. leadership to commit crimes without limit and with no suggestion of misbehavior or criminality; in fact, major war criminals like Henry Kissinger appear regularly on TV to comment on the crimes of the derivative butchers.” Edward S. Herman, political economist and author Millions of con ...

I actually did it, but he is not really a Repubican anymore.  I could have voted for a Democrat who is guaranteed to lose or a raving, lunatic Republican.  Instead I voted for Charlie Crist.  He was a centrist Republican who was too far left for the scary, foot shooters who live around here.  Meek, the Democrat running for the U.S. Senate,  only has about 15% of the vote and Rubio is really no choice at all ...

The deficit is a ruse.  First, this deficit was created by the Republicans over the last ten years—Yes, ten years.  They used the war to create an endless pit and spent like crazy with the bulk of the money going to their friends.  Then they used the last two years to prevent anyone from doing anything to fix it.  Is the deficit a problem?  No, it is a tool.  It is the tool with which the Republicans intend ...

Michael Collins The corporate takeover of California is on hold according to the latest polls out of the nation’s largest state. Just nine days before the election, the Los Angeles Times and University of Southern California poll shows a nearly impossible uphill battle for the big business ticket of former eBay CEO Meg Whitman and former HP CEO Carly Fiorina. Among likely voters in the governor’s race, Brow ...

source: Carl Herman at Examiner.com This article series explains what happened when I interacted with participants of a 9/11 event to welcome home US soldiers and honor the victims of 9/11, then provides the e-mail exchange with the sponsoring group’s leadership. Consistent with my last two years of writing articles to explain, document, and prove current US wars aren’t even close to lawful and all based on ...

The United States slogs through its worst crisis since the Great Depression, but some editorial writers in leading newspapers practice denial of their reality and focus instead on Cuba’s “failed socialist system.” I wonder if these opinion crafters who specialize in fostering illusions, berating enemies and spreading denial studies at the secret Joseph Goebbels Propaganda School – created by the infamous Na ...

By Numerian First published in The Agonist Google, which encourages employees to “Do No Evil”, managed this past quarter to reduce its international tax rate to 2.4% of net income, despite earning most of its revenue in countries like the US, the UK, Germany, and Japan that have corporate tax rates of at least 25%. In comparison, the average recent effective US tax rate for 2,000 companies was 28.3%. In a r ...