Corporate Elite Put us on this Path of Doom - Taboo Jive

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

Book reviews / Corporate Elite Put us on this Path of Doom / Government / Philosophy / Prejudice / Psychology

The Wretched of the Earth

By: Geoffrey Yonil If you wanna know how nationalism and socialism can be fused into one political system, then read Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. Published in 1961 as a rallying call for Algerian liberation from French (and Western) colonization, the book still has prevalence within contemporary…

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April 22, 2011

Corporate Elite Put us on this Path of Doom / Current Events / Drugs / News / Physics / Ray's Boom Boom Room

Ray’s Boom Boom Room – Vol. 3: Japan’s nuclear reactor; A story in the life of….

By: Ray Rife – raysbbr@gmail.com Welcome to Ray’s “Boom-Boom” Room. Okay, so I’m a big Dallas Cowboys fan and this stuff with Dez Bryant just tickles me to death. I mean, c’mon son, you can’t go to the mall with your pants saggin’. Well, wait, I think…

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March 31, 2011

Corporate Elite Put us on this Path of Doom / Country / Editorials / Psychology / Sexuality / Society / Spirituality

If I was White, Female and Privileged for One Day

By: Ms. Henry First of all, before I write this essay, I would like to state that I love being a black woman. I love the beautiful brownness of my skin, my hair which is a crown that has anointed me Queen of my universe, my full lips, slanted…

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March 29, 2011

Celebrities / Censorship / Corporate Elite Put us on this Path of Doom / Current Events / Editorials / Entertainment / Media / Politics / Prejudice / Sexuality

Fox and Friends

By Jim Hoover Five faces tell the story – or stories, as it might be -- of Fox News Network. It tells a narrative of angst and spectacle that bends minds, heaves hearts, presses attitudes, and makes pupils wide. Bill O’Reilly, a Fox news icon, is depicted with a…

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March 22, 2011

Corporate Elite Put us on this Path of Doom / Current Events / Editorials / Government / News

What Is Not Up?

by Jim Hoover With the ruthless and relentless monolithic corporate assault on anything getting in the way of stellar profits, it is easy to imagine any number of dirty tricks to achieve this end. The cause of greed has many allies in government and business. For example, Governor Scott…

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March 19, 2011

Corporate Elite Put us on this Path of Doom / Country / Current Events / Government / Politics

Supreme Court Ball: Dance with Clarence Thomas

By: George Hiskler As a general perception, the Supreme Court is supposed to be an institution of impartiality, judicial fortitude, and constituted by men and women who have sacrificed their private interest for the purpose of democratic continuity—or republic continuity, whichever one you’d prefer. For the most part it…

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March 2, 2011

Corporate Elite Put us on this Path of Doom / video game/ computer

Bioware: All Their Endowments

By: Ashley Wrigley Sex sells. Fact. What sells better? Sex on the other end of a romance in a good story—or, at least, let’s hope so. It’s everywhere—in books, movies, and even video games. As viewers, we like seeing couples get together, share their first kiss, and even branch…

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March 1, 2011

Corporate Elite Put us on this Path of Doom / Current Events / Editorials / Government / Politics / Society

For a Lone Lunatic, He Fits Right In

As I read the analysis’s of Laughner’s patchwork manifestos and cobbled-together, text based video blogs on the various news and opinion sites I frequent, I am struck both by how desperately the reasonable among us are trying to make sense of this rampage and how futile their efforts are. The only place the actions of Jared Laughner made sense was in his own deformed mind, and it is not unreasonable to suggest that they no longer make sense there either.

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February 20, 2011