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Screw the Supreme Court and screw Obama’s health care plan says this self-employed citizen

Mar 30

Posted by Michael Collins in Big Money, Health, Populism | Comments off

By Michael Collins

I hadn’t paid much attention to the Supreme Court hearings on the Obama health care program until today.  Someone told me Obama’s lawyer was tanking the case, which surprised me.  Reflexively, I thought, Oh, that’s too bad.  Then it all came back to me, my revulsion at what a lousy deal Obama’s health care program was and is.

The health care law does nothing about drug costs, a huge factor in affordability.  It does nothing much about preexisting conditions, putting that off until 2014 (unless you are under 18 and how many of those folks buy their own plans?)  It should target those medical conditions that create the greatest health care costs.  It does not. Read the rest of this entry »

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Ray Adams is the man in the lastest Murdoch scandal

Mar 29

Posted by Michael Collins in Big Money, Corruption, Wall St | Comments off

By Michael Collins

Ray Adams is a name you will hear more frequently as the latest and perhaps most fatal Murdoch – News Corp. scandal emerges.

When Murdoch was setting up his BSKYB cable network in England, he had some serious competition.  ITV had a digital service called ITV Digital.  The British broadcaster was prepared to go head to head with Murdoch’s network.  As the services rolled out, ITV Digital became subject to furious hacker attacks.  The hackers broke the ITV  encryption code and distributed it widely allowing so many people to get free ITV service, the venture failed, largely due to the piracy of its service, and Murdoch had a clean road to mega profits with BSKYB.

The BBC’s Panorama television show broke a story (not yet available in the United States) accusing a Murdoch owned firm, NDS, of hiring hackers to break the ITV code, thus sabotaging the Murdoch competitor.  The rest is history and huge profits.  BSKYB is the dominant British cable network.  It’s spreading throughout Europe.

During the time ITV was hacked out of existence, Ray Adams was the head of operational security for NDS.  The firm hired hackers to anticipate and check security problems with its own encryption system.  But there’s more.  Reports from Great Britain and Australia document NDS using hackers to target rivals.  Australia’s Financial Review just broke a well document story outlining the same pattern of hacking behavior by NDS in behalf of Murdoch cable operations there.  The publication documented the story with 10,000 emails it received from, you guessed it, the computer of Ray Adams. Read the rest of this entry »

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Books Banned in Arizona – Latinos Fighting Thought Control

Mar 27

Posted by Michael Collins in Big Money, Constitution, Corruption, Populism | Comments off

By Michael Collins

Bad things are happening in Arizona … again. Good things too!

The extremist Arizona legislature enacted a law that just recently caused the banning of nearly 100 books from Tucson public schools. The list includes prominent Latino authors, plus Shakespeare, Thoreau, and James Baldwin. They even banned Zorro!

The real goal was to totally dismantle the Tucson school district’s Mexican American Studies program. Mission accomplished. The program is gone. Not a class survived.

The enabling act, Arizona House Bill 2281, contains some lofty language. It requires that school districts teach students to “value each other as individuals.” They cannot be instructed to “hate other races” or “overthrow the United States government.” Promoting “resentment toward a race or class of people” or “ethnic solidarity” is forbidden. A bit overdone but it has some potential, right?

The law was just a smokescreen to cover ethnically based attacks on Latinos students in Tucson schools. Neither the banned books nor the dismantled Mexican American Studies program violated any of the provisions listed yet the law banned the books and ended the program. Read the rest of this entry »

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Fleecing Greece

Mar 27

Posted by Michael Collins in Big Money, Financial Crisis, Recession/Depression, Wall St | Comments off

William Engdahl punished an excellent analysis of the Greek debt crisis, oil and gas reserves emerging near the battered nation, and the leverage that the US and EU used to buy Greek government owned energy companies on the cheap, just before they strike it rich.  The United States government is u to the hips in this.  Hillary Clinton’s ambassador for Eurasian energy, Richard Morningstar, is all for the privatization deal and husband Bill has even schmoozed for Noble Energy for Mediterranean oil deals (in Israel).

Call me cynical (or realistic) but it sounds like a Money Party mega swindle:  Goldman sells Greece paper it knows will tank; the crisis emerges; normal IMF garbage, er, doctrine is offered – privatize. Clinton and the Germans weigh in and Greece puts up its gas company for nothing when it’s looking at at a $300 bil take for oil and gas revenues over time from the government owned companies.

There’s just one problem if this or a variation of this scenario is true.  Everything involving Greece has been fraudulent.  The risk factor for the firms acquiring Greek government assets is an unraveling of the plot.  But, hey, who cares.  It’s quarterly bonus time and if someone challenges them, they’ll just bring those making the charges some democracy Libyan style. Read the rest of this entry »

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Stick with Obama if I don’t get nomination says Santorum

Mar 23

Posted by Michael Collins in Big Money, Election 2012, Wall St, War (endless) | Comments off


“You win by giving people a choice,” Santorum said during a campaign stop in Texas. “You win by giving people the opportunity to see a different vision for our country, not someone who’s just going to be a little different than the person in there.”

Santorum added: “If they’re going to be a little different, we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk of what may be the Etch A Sketch candidate for the future.” Huffington Post, March 23 (Image)

Isn’t this amazing. The Democrats must have used some clever backward masking or NLP techniques in that “Etch a Sketch” video ad the DNC ran just yesterday. Rick Santorum is obviously a victim of mind control. Why else would he say, if not me, then vote for Obama.

This effectively ends the 2012 campaign. Get ready for four more years of tyranny lite with complete indifference to the people, here or anywhere else. It is hard to imagine, but Romney would probably be marginally worse than Obama. Santorum would be noticeably worse on social issues. No matter who wins, we can expect the Money Party to continue it’s feeding frenzy at our expense.

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Netanyahu’s pretext for war – Islamic Jihad missiles

Mar 20

Posted by Michael Collins in Big Money, Middle East, War (endless) | 1 Comment

By Michael Collins

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has his pretext for an attack on Iran. He left Washington disappointed by President Obama’s reluctance to saddle up for Armageddon. Now he’s got the formula.

Haaretz (daily news), one of Israel’s few liberal media voices, linked Gaza based missile attacks on Israel to the presence of Iranian military experts. This fits nicely into the Netanyahu strategy. Here’s how Haaretz reported events:

“Iran pressured Islamic Jihad and popular resistance groups in Gaza to continue firing rockets into Israel despite cease-fire, says high-ranking Jerusalem official.

“Iranian military experts are active in the Gaza Strip and in Sinai, according to a high-ranking official in Jerusalem. The official said the Iranians entered the areas via Sudan and Egypt, and added that some of the rocket-launching systems in Gaza were manufactured under Iranian supervision.” Haaretz.com, March 19

The paper went on to say how shocked members of the Israeli left were with the overall theme of the article announcing a unified Israel in support of an attack on Iran.

Of course, any attack is so crazy on so many levels, it is exhausting to comprehend. Aside from the potential collapse of the world economy and the pervasive suffering, let’s focus on a sure fired reason that the United States won’t green light such a move. Read the rest of this entry »

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Some questions about the Obama – Cameron meeting

Mar 15

Posted by Michael Collins in Big Money, Corruption, Wall St, War (endless) | Comments off

By Michael Collins

What a lovely photo of the two well-heeled leaders of the free world. Previously, it was the American cowboy president and the supposedly left leaning Prime Minister Tony Blair. That buddy act helped drag United States into the worst foreign policy disaster in its history. (Image full size)

This working partnership between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron portends less immediate damage than the Bush-Blair team. Nevertheless, there will be blood

Is there anything other than disaster awaiting the US and Great Britain in Afghanistan?

The response to the murder of sixteen Afghan civilians on March 12th has been disastrous for the United States with retaliatory attacks ongoing. Even before that, March 8 was a Deadly day for the Brits in Afghanistan with six soldiers killed in a bombing of an armored vehicle. General David Allen, in charge of the Afghanistan effort, lamented that this is the type of incident that could threaten the entire effort.

How will the U.S.-British enterprise recover from the latest in a series of insults to the Afghan people?

The people of the U.S. and Great Britain get the message. In a recent poll, 61% of citizens want U.S. troops home immediately. Only 19% oppose that decisive action. In Great Britain, 75% oppose the Afghan war effort.

With negligible public support and tottering economies, how can Obama and Cameron conceive, even for a moment, that withdrawal will last through the 2014 timeline?
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