America: Fiddling Toward Decline
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America: Fiddling Toward Decline

By Jim Hoover You remember hearing the legend that depicted Roman Emperor Nero as fiddling while Rome burned and was mostly destroyed by fire in 64 AD? The truth of the legend is irrelevant. What is relevant is that corruption and narcissism were endemic in Roman society at the…

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July 5, 2011
Shall We Blow Up Mountains?
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Shall We Blow Up Mountains?

By Jim Hoover http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGXQ1Xwn4ws&feature=player_detailpage#t=63s Unlike traditional coal mining, dynamiting the tops of pristine mountains to extract coal, permanently alters the beauty of the landscape. The Appalachian Mountain System, running 2000 miles from Newfoundland to central Alabama, has graced the landscape of what is the eastern US today, originally formed…

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June 20, 2011
Blame it on George W?
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Blame it on George W?

By: Jim Hoover Now I know what die-hard conservatives will say without even looking at the chart above: you’re blaming it all on George W. again. Conservatives do have a point. We should blame it on the ignorance and apathy of too many American voters, interference and manipulation of…

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May 30, 2011
Single-Payer Health Care: The Time Has Come
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Single-Payer Health Care: The Time Has Come

By: Jim Hoover Another very important bit of news the mainstream corporate media won’t feature: Vermont has voted for the first single-payer health care system, in other words, a system without private health care middlemen who, leech-like, suck record profits out of the misery of patients[i]. Now, who doesn’t…

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May 28, 2011
Can Scams Get Any Bigger?
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Can Scams Get Any Bigger?

By: Jim Hoover We’ve had the Barney Madoff scam affecting hundreds and the Wall Street scam perpetrated by hundreds and affecting millions. Now it’s the Harold Camping scam affecting billions. Scams are all around us. We have conmen in politics who fool voters into voting them into office and…

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May 22, 2011
Betrayed and/or Screwed?
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Betrayed and/or Screwed?

By: Jim Hoover Princeton University professor, Cornel West, is bitterly disappointed in Barack Obama. Like many of us, he bought the egalitarian rhetoric Obama used doing the campaign and fought for his election. Now like many of us, he feels betrayed. “The system is rigged against poor and working…

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May 22, 2011
How the War on Family Planning Began.
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How the War on Family Planning Began.

The sign at the Tea Party rally “No Pubic Option” could be how the Republicans took up the war on family planning. Just a misspelled sign during a demonstration against health care reform? Honestly it could be a rallying cry for sexual abstinence as well, something our public funds…

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April 26, 2011
Gas Tax for Wall Street
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Gas Tax for Wall Street

By Jim Hoover The oil and gas speculation of Wall Street commodity traders has raised gas prices by more than 64 cents a gallon, say Senator Cantwell of Washington state and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) commissioner, Bart Chilton. The pie chart indicates the amounts and proportions for the…

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April 26, 2011
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