Members Posts - page 32
A free internet to be used by detained Americans???
Let's explore this hypocrisy with more political art!http://s196.photobucket.com/albums/aa125/grind_o_flesh/?action=view¤t=NDAA.jpgDo something about it:https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/detention/Take action! Good luck!-Joel Henske [...]
Get Your Bureaucrats Off Our Farms
Dear Brian,Did you know that the FDA and USDA have SWAT teams?According to the Justice Department, Americans "do not have a fundamental right to obtain any food they wish”.The document goes on to say “There is no ‘deeply [...]
SECRET CODESPEAK
There’s a lot of buzz lately about “code words”: words that sound benign but have sinister meanings, according to the experts, none of whom actually use them. I’ve never met anyone who intentionally used political [...]
When Wealth Is Baggage
Under duress two days before the pivotal South Carolina primary, Republican front-runner Mitt Romney acknowledges he has part of his millions invested in the Cayman Islands, although his aides say he never used the location as a tax haven. [...]
A Stand For Internet Free Speech
The growing anti-SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) support that has swept through the gaming and Internet community found a very big ally today. With websites like Reddit and Wikipedia and gaming organizations like Major League Gaming prepared for a [...]
Freedom's Song
Hello,I'm not sure how, exactly, this will show up or who (if anyone) will read it. But, just in case, anyone does, I can't think of anything closer to my heart than 'freedom.'What a lovely word, freedom! Not only our [...]
Self Deportation Can Work
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Wednesday ridiculed rival Mitt Romney's call for self-deportation of illegal immigrants as an "Obama-level fantasy" that would be inhumane to long-established families living in [...]
Republicans Turn on Intervention
Neoconservatives would have us believe that all good God-fearing Americans want to kill a few foreigners--or at least invade a few foreign countries. But it turns out that even Republican voters are backing away from the promiscuous [...]
The Web Blacks Out
Tomorrow, January 18, sites like Wikipedia, Reddit, and BoingBoing plan on going dark for 24 hours in protest of H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and S. 968, the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). Even the search engine giant Google has [...]
Question all spending -- including military
I'm trying my best to spread the word and get people to rethink our foreign policy. Here is a column I wrote in my local paper. http://mywebtimes.com/archives/ottawa/display.php?id=448664