It’s Good to be Independent April 1, 2008
Posted by Webmaster in Economy, Mainstream Media.comments closed
Because you’re more likely to call ‘em as you see ‘em.
USA 2008: The Great Depression
Food stamps are the symbol of poverty in the US. In the era of the credit crunch, a record 28 million Americans are now relying on them to survive – a sure sign the world’s richest country faces economic crisis
We knew things were bad on Wall Street, but on Main Street it may be worse. Startling official statistics show that as a new economic recession stalks the United States, a record number of Americans will shortly be depending on food stamps just to feed themselves and their families.
Dismal projections by the Congressional Budget Office in Washington suggest that in the fiscal year starting in October, 28 million people in the US will be using government food stamps to buy essential groceries, the highest level since the food assistance programme was introduced in the 1960s.
The increase – from 26.5 million in 2007 – is due partly to recent efforts to increase public awareness of the programme and also a switch from paper coupons to electronic debit cards. But above all it is the pressures being exerted on ordinary Americans by an economy that is suddenly beset by troubles. Housing foreclosures, accelerating jobs losses and fast-rising prices all add to the squeeze.
I wouldn’t call our economic situation a depression just yet, (especially using food stamp dependence as a yardstick, because illegal aliens are accounting for much of the growth therein, especially in states like AZ and FL that this article cites as ones having big usage jumps), but I much rather look the fool for calling it a depression than saying it’s great. If one wonders where such dire coverage of the American economy is in the American media, remember that the American media are owned by the same corporate power structure, the same free trade open borders cabal that is engineering the oncoming depression. Any MSM employee that tells the truth soon gets a hasty economic depression of his or her own. I don’t think the Brit media is very heavily interlinked with the multinational corporate establishment.
How Potent is the Immigration Issue? April 1, 2008
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The next Tancredo?
If I’m reading between the lines of this article correctly, even uber-liberal State Sen. Jeff Smith (D-St. Louis City) endorsed SB858, which would enact employer sanctions, and deny drivers’ licenses and welfare benefits to illegal aliens.
Father Abraham April 1, 2008
Posted by Webmaster in Interventionism.comments closed
Yet, it was understood during the Cold War that if a NATO ally like Norway, West Germany or Turkey, which bordered on the Soviet Union or Warsaw Pact, were attacked, America would come to its defense.
Can any sane man believe the United States should go to war with a nuclear-armed Russia over Stalin’s birthplace, Georgia?
Two provinces of Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, have seceded, with the backing of Russia. And there are 10 million Russian-speaking Ukrainians in the east of that country, and Moscow and Kiev are at odds over which is sovereign on the Crimean Peninsula.
To bring Ukraine and Georgia into NATO would put America in the middle of these quarrels. We could be dragged into a confrontation with Russia over Abkhazia, or South Ossetia, or who owns Sebastopol. To bring these ex-republics of the Soviet Union into NATO would be an affront to Moscow not unlike 19th century Britain bringing the Confederate state of South Carolina under the protection of the British Empire.
How would Lincoln’s Union have reacted to that?
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Wonderful. A Second Crusade for Global Democracy. But with the Joint Chiefs warning of a war-weary Army and Marine Corps, who will fight all the new wars the neocons and their new champion have in store for us?
Lincoln would be smiling, because his war was the first modern crusade for egalitarian Global Democracy.
