S. Paul Forrest For too long, We the People have sat back while the governmental representatives of our nation have initiated fiscal policies to appease the donors of their campaign drives while taking away from our social services.  It is not difficult in this money driven world we live in to understand how indifferent the rich persons who occupyWashingtonare to the “little people” who are occupying Wall S ...

October 24, 2011 Milwaukee’s Alliance High Featured in Time Magazine as Model Program From the Alliance School web-site: The Alliance School is a small, charter school of the Milwaukee Public School system. The school opened in 2005 with the goal of providing a safe and accepting environment for all students. The Alliance School is a place where it's okay to be black, white, gay, straight, gothic, Buddhist, ...

While it is difficult to say when those who run the Washington Post began lying or how many lies they have told.  The Graham family (major stock holders in the company traded as WaPo) and their cohorts continue to shamelessly lie. Editor Marcus Brauchli and Publisher Katharine Weymouth, were caught lying to the New York Times about their involvement in 2009's SalonGate. Richard Perez Pena reported on Sept 1 ...

Show the commercial banks the potential power of the 99% ACTION: Massive Withdrawal HOW: All 99%ers withdraw $100 (or what they can spare) from the bank. WHEN: Monday October 31st Halloween at 12pm noon EST VISION: A scary Halloween for corporate America: Demonstrating to the  commercial banks the potential power of the people James Horn ontogenyx@gmail.com ...

source: Carl Herman Occupy Wall Street (and nationwide) has three emerging objectives: Public recognition of the 1%’s crimes, centering on war and money. End war and money crimes that annually kill millions, injure billions, and loot trillions of our dollars. Build a brighter future for 100% of humanity, centering on full constructive employment and the creation of money that maximizes public good. My Open ...

"It’s not acceptable to kill a person without trying him," said Louay Hussein, a Syrian opposition figure in Damascus. "I prefer to see the tyrant behind bars." New York Times, October 20 The New York Times reported that a NATO jet and drones disabled vehicles in a convoy carrying Muammar Gaddafi near the besieged town of Sirte on October 20. Loyalists in the remaining vehicles scattered becoming easy prey ...

Nora Durst finds herself at the intersection of something routinely normal for middle-class Americans living in the comfort of suburbia and distinctly otherworldly at the same time in Tom Perrotta’s The Leftovers, his newest novel venturing into speculative/ dystopian fiction. Visiting the mall with her sister during the Christmas season, Nora confronts the sudden disappearance of her entire family several ...

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 you is your dignity.  All your pitiful little belongings in an old grocery bag or box and out you go. Well, imagine doing th ...

Tennessee has become the first American state to use the TSA statewide, with officers placed in airports, bus stations, weigh stations and on the highways. Using Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR), the TSA is traveling across the state monitoring the highways and weigh stations. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZKIfgk5oJk&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] "Where is a terrorist mor ...

Alex wrote of the fear she had of American Capitalists growing up and they had an underground shelter at her school in case we bombed them.  There was concern about survival and the Middle East. It looks like your leaders cared a bit more than ours.  We had no underground shelters.  We were told to get under our desks : )))  As for books, my favorite post apocalypse novel is "Alas Babylon" by Pat Frank.  It ...