tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70271251434488209782011-12-05T11:03:43.714-08:00Resources and Rants for Active CitizensJose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.comBlogger441100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-44080838885863391212009-12-18T18:26:00.000-08:002009-12-18T18:33:24.293-08:00

I received a bizarre comment on a film blog that read like a Woody Allen spoof of a Bourne or James Bond film.. the link was to a Google site called "Jillstarrsite".. when I went there it says it's a non-governmental legal society connected to the Int'l Criminal Court of the UN...Is this a legimate organization and site? Or have we suckered into visiting an NSA or CIA fabrication of

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-7632046220705531602009-08-04T01:01:00.000-07:002009-08-04T01:09:40.073-07:00

When VIETNAM capitalizes a company now, and they plan to capitalize all their companies, each employee gets equal shares. ALL employees now have a vested interest in their company being profitable.. this is "socialism", mgrs get paid more, but not 100m a year, and everyone is happy. THIS WAS SET UP with advisors from the US, former SEC officials, who were able to correct the failures with our

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-48365751601594993772009-07-21T12:22:00.000-07:002009-07-21T12:32:36.559-07:00

The average US salary is now 24k - can you live on that with a family, outside of a few poverty-stricken states? Also, does anyone know if that includes all the executives and hedge-fund managers making over 100 million a year, and pulling money out of the consumer system? If so, the real average is much lower- that's the problem with stats, a few at the top skewer the results into a "positive

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-26478810263966244942009-07-07T18:55:00.000-07:002009-07-07T18:56:26.315-07:00

The authorities in China have now killed over 140 demonstrators in the riots in the Xinjiang province.

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-75000700008652090262009-06-23T19:21:00.000-07:002009-07-07T18:57:07.764-07:00

Dylan Ratigan's new show on MSNBC is due to launch on Monday, June 29th, at 9 a.m.Dylan Ratigan Joins MSNBCRatigan had said in the interview with Henry Blodget that he wanted "to cover a systemic failure", basically in U.S. economic policy, "from a wider base", in other words, a bigger rating and not a narrow-demographic such as CNBC's.[from Wikipedia]"Dylan Ratigan, born Dylan James Ratigan in

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-48948384767930865302009-06-22T14:51:00.000-07:002009-06-22T19:31:38.168-07:00

China blocks all blogs, and totally censors all the information for its citizens, and they're our #1 supporter and trade partner. Yet we protest about human rights in Iran and North Korea, as they aren't important sources of funds for us. It's become obvious that the US can be bought by anyone with any money remaining. Individual rights, liberties, the Constitution are all now rendered

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-27726003316116073702009-05-30T21:43:00.000-07:002009-05-30T21:52:14.860-07:00

[This was a Peter Dale Scott talk in Palo Alto, October 27, 2006.]This is a well-documented article, and I've heard parts of this from other sources. I also remember the CIA saying they wrote 80% of all the news we hears, so maybe this is their own black ops? I don't think so, it points the finger at them.I also remember a time when al Queda reps were on the US radio, allowed to go nationwide,

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-43207554945041950762009-05-23T17:13:00.000-07:002009-05-23T15:10:12.177-07:00

HBO is going to repeat this series often, and sometimes the signal will be unscrambled, allowing everyone to see "The Alzheimer's Project". Part one is "The Memory Loss Tapes".HBO calls the series "A new way of looking at the disease". Click here for the HBO Link, and all four episodes can be streamed from here as well.My lifetime friend, Charlton McMillan, and his wife Shari Cookson were

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-88687333464972170122009-05-13T19:17:00.000-07:002009-05-18T20:52:33.596-07:00

Well, everyone's got their own ideas on how to save our economy, which has apparently gone to the brink of armageddon because consumers borrowed money they shouldn't have. It's not the fault of the lawmakers, they just did what the corporations told them to do when they put them into office. It's not the fault of the corporations who lent money because that's their business, moving money around,

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-37177318511026943852009-05-11T21:26:00.000-07:002009-05-11T21:29:54.178-07:00

Saberi, 32, a freelance reporter for National Public Radio, British Broadcasting Corp. and others, had been held in Tehran's Evin prison since Jan. 31, evoking an international response as well as a European Parliament petition, and Saberi's own hunger strike.Here's the full story in the Usa Today release:Saberi Freed by Iran

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-46397490405254501422009-05-08T22:41:00.000-07:002009-05-11T21:33:15.162-07:00

Update: Roxana was freed by Iran on Tuesday 5.12Group at Facebook to free U.S. journalist Roxana Saberi - jailed in Iran for buying a bottle of wine, now charged with spying, given 8 yrs in prison.Free Roxana Saberi GroupIf we are jailed for our opinions, then we're all guilty!More information:European Parliament petitionVideo at YouTubeNewsdaily story

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-50612174783316034762009-05-05T12:05:00.000-07:002009-05-05T12:26:23.686-07:00

If you needed any more proof that the U.S. is now a "Corporate welfare state", the Fed is refusing to implement any regulations to preven credit card companies from gouging individuals with interest rate hikes and the other shenanigans they pull.Fed Refuses to Help Credit Card HoldersAll the Senate is asking for is some semblance of fairness. When card issuers can borrow money at 2% from the

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-167235911410077122009-04-30T20:31:00.000-07:002009-05-09T18:04:34.248-07:00

A very interesting story is now developing in regards to the Zodiac killer.A 42 year old woman named Deborah Perez claims that her father was the Zodiac killer in northern California, Guy Hendrickson. She says she wrote one note to the police, and still has the first victim's glasses, from a cabbie, that her dad kept as a souvenir.Here's the USA Today version of today's story:Woman's Dad the

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-55259152922609280212009-04-29T16:15:00.000-07:002009-05-01T22:41:56.279-07:00

I just did an analysis of the leveraged ETFs (exchange traded funds) for YTD in 2009. It doesn't look good, as nearly all are down vs the underlying indices. So whatever is causing this (management fees?), it's not a good bet for the public investor.Jim Cramer of Mad Money (CNBC, the "Orwellian voice of corporate propaganda", and proud of it) is wrong that they have too much leverage, because

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-3026372520722509922009-04-28T00:32:00.000-07:002009-04-28T00:39:46.126-07:00

I often think that since man's evolutionary nature has been established as nomadic hunter-killers (scientists have proven that the herbalist humanoids died off, each time, but the killer-carnivores survived, largely by eating carrion like other animals), we will remain in this state of evolution until something radical changes us all. Perhaps it will take another deadly plague, perhaps another

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-43869390130638718112009-04-22T20:46:00.000-07:002009-04-22T20:51:31.283-07:00

Up Friday, down Monday, up Tuesday, down Wednesday (4.22). Just like that terrible commercial, "you buy and sell the same stocks, again and again." Yep, that's what they're doing. Buy em today, sell em tomorrow, ad infinitum.Is this market getting to be like a stuck record, constantly skipping back and forth and ending up in the same places? Sometimes it reverses direction daily for 4-8 days in a

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-73493532628993681002009-04-06T02:32:00.000-07:002009-04-06T02:39:23.902-07:00

Everyone should read this terrific article, about the dumbest bans current invoked by the government.subtitled: Annual Review of Regulatory Absurdity by Eli LehrerThe Five Dumbest Product Bans#1 is the cancer drug Provenge, made by Dendreon (DNDN), of which approval was recommended by the FDA review panel 13-4, with a unanimous vote that "it's safe". However, under suspicious circumstances like

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-34177945385392332972009-04-05T13:11:00.000-07:002009-04-05T13:13:41.686-07:00

"There will never be a really free and enlightened State, until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power is derived, and treats him accordingly.. to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistant with its own repose, if a few were to live aloof from it. A state which bore this kind of

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-3034685389254998232009-03-27T15:16:00.000-07:002009-03-27T15:27:42.711-07:00

"Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's" (words of Jesus)It's past time to end the tax-free status of religions. Many waste the money on themselves anyway (some preachers now have jets!), some even send the money overseas to terrorists. Making them taxable would enable government auditing, otherwise we have no idea where the money is going. In fact, we're paying for all the CULTS that we love

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-72412138565114297902009-03-20T02:23:00.000-07:002009-03-20T02:42:23.814-07:00

Ever see the useless signs “Not Responsible for Accidents”? (Bowling alleys, gun and archery ranges, etc.) I always thought what a clever legal ploy, just deny any legality beforehand. It’s not really legal; the dean of a law school told me that the signs are irrelevant in court, they just hope to discourage lawsuits. Fat chance, this is America!So, why can’t everyone just do that, put up signs,

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-10330808680526205442009-03-18T18:27:00.000-07:002009-03-18T20:55:20.435-07:00

“As President, I have to walk and chew gum at the same time.” - President Obama tonight at the town meeting.Obama gives a great town meeting! Obama started with a short talk, obviuosly winging it, getting into a rhythm and sounding like a cross between Dr. King and Jesse Jackson! He even once said "that be" instead of "that would be", as some street slang crept in - I love it.. we all know what

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-46022993628503217332009-03-11T17:12:00.000-07:002009-03-11T17:45:10.779-07:00

Well, CNBC kept mentioning the new Forbes annual billionaire list today (which I'm not about to link to!). Frankly, I'm tired of hearing about billionaires, the number we have vs the world, the number of new millionaires, lottery winners, the housewife who invented a baby sling and made ten million.Not only is this a slap in the face of working people, but it's like a lottery or poker winner

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-37596462832025664332009-03-06T17:52:00.000-08:002009-03-06T20:30:02.279-08:00

[This was a reply and thesis, ie guess, to a friend about something secret going on that we don't know about]Yes, I finally agree on the 'secret economic war' theory.Those holding our bonds have to roll them over when they mature, and if they don't the western economy collapses from the massive immediate loss of capital - so its usually not worth the cost to themselves to do this, but at some

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-32499390695645805722009-03-04T21:08:00.000-08:002009-03-04T21:29:00.199-08:00

This could be an endless stream of these stories, but I used to work for these guys, at least they took over the company I worked for.The prisons are going to be full of corporate criminals - well, except they don't have enough personnel at the FBI to arrest them all - budget cutbacks, they have 200 people doing the work of 1000... figures, just when you need a white collar cop!Naccio Off to

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-1889727123724422762009-03-03T21:51:00.000-08:002009-03-04T03:49:33.056-08:00

I can't believe the right-wing media. Now they're blaming all the stock market drop since the inauguration on Obama, as if the financial situation just happened when he took office. ..and the whining about more taxes for the rich, give it up already - it's not enough extra to worry about in the light of everything else going on, or "no one cares about the tax problems of the wealthy anymore (if

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-36267170125541805762009-02-24T19:31:00.000-08:002009-03-09T19:39:53.799-07:00

I'm listening to the Republican reaction to President Obama's speech to Congress. I'm amazed at how they never really say anything new, but "lower taxes, stimulate the economy" and "we need less government" - naturally.Well, we just had less government in the form of deregulation of banking, look at the result. We may as well have handed all those executives blank checks in the name of their

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-3065285477144640542009-02-15T14:59:00.000-08:002009-03-04T03:05:32.691-08:00

Capitalism as we know and abuse it is simply "done" - put a fork in it.As we're seeing, give these jokers bailout money to save the biz and they simply take it home, put it in their overseas bank and the money disappears - just like wages sent overseas and all our other corporate welfare breaks.The US's wealth has been smuggled to foreign banks with secrecy laws (which is a legal loophole that

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-23276889154578787012009-02-11T18:55:00.000-08:002009-02-26T23:38:41.328-08:00

It now appears there are at least 67 computers missing from the nation's nuclear weapons labs. Of course, they like to stress "nothing classified is missing", which means that it's highly likely there has been a theft of classified info. We'll only know after the fact, like 911, how our security and intelligence failed us again.Here's the story at USA Today: Missing Computers

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-24731498083916181382009-01-29T23:49:00.000-08:002009-04-06T02:46:06.387-07:00

[Update: Pres. Obama lifted the ban on stem cell funding, finally, in early March]Since Invitro Fertilization (IVF) clinics have killed 500,000 embryos simply helping infertile women have their own babies (when adoption is a better alternative), and stem cells have only been pulled from 20-25, the "they're killing embryos" argument is a moot point - we need to ban IVF first, and allow stem cell

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-1475429605822693662009-01-27T15:05:00.000-08:002009-02-26T23:38:41.329-08:00

We all need to get behind Obama, he must succeed or the U.S. may be in real trouble. Like it or not, he's likely President for at least four year, probably eight, as the nation is finally fed up with the arrogance, theft, and self-righteousness of the right wing, the immoral majority, and Republican attitudes in general: "Support the wealthy, screw the rest of you", just doesn't work and now we

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-2137757138965757072008-11-07T09:33:00.000-08:002009-03-04T21:20:06.916-08:00

[Here's a great message from Michael Moore about the election]MichaelMoore.com http://www.michaelmoore.com/Wednesday, November 5th, 2008Friends,Who among us is not at a loss for words? Tears pour out. Tears of joy. Tears of relief. A stunning, whopping landslide of hope in a time of deep despair. In a nation that was founded on genocide and then built on the backs of slaves, it was an unexpected

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-19037236110479365082008-10-17T16:27:00.000-07:002009-02-26T23:38:41.330-08:00

Recently in an interview with a female voter after the vice-Presidential debate, a woman on the street said: "I liked Sarah Palin, she's like someone I'd have over for dinner and I think we could talk together about kids and school." (Important qualities in a President?)PEOPLE: Voting for "beer buddies" has gotten us Clinton and Bush and Reagan and Carter and LBJ. What happened the days when we'd

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-69972324536727148372008-08-21T16:05:00.000-07:002009-02-26T23:38:41.330-08:00

[I'm sharing this incisive eMail sent to me with all of you - Jman]A Japanese company (Toyota) and an American company Ford Motor) decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri River. Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race.On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile. The Americans, very discouraged and depressed, decided to investigate the reason for the

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-89051895553512179742008-08-12T20:16:00.000-07:002009-02-26T23:38:41.331-08:00

To be President, all you need is foresight and a clear vision of America's place in the world.Subject: Bush-speak"The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country."-George W. Bush"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."-George W. Bush"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any Governor, and that one word is 'to be prepared'."-George W. Bush"I have made good

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-44378084596092189402008-05-14T15:27:00.000-07:002009-02-26T23:38:41.332-08:00

The cost of oil is not only threatening U.S. security, but our economic well-being as well.People call Hugo Chavez of Venezuela “idiot" and "socialist dictator" for kicking out big US oil companies, and nationalizing oil there, yet the result is that people there pay a QUARTER for gasoline (according to CNBC). It’s also this cheap in some other countries where it’s based on cost. In some nations,

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-58208017882203007592008-04-22T16:52:00.000-07:002009-03-04T21:26:11.864-08:00

Keeping church and government separate as in the ConstitutionAmericans United for Separation of Church and StateProtect your right to a day in courtCenter for Justice and DemocracyTry to keep science responsibleCenter for Science in the Public Interest(Be sure to get their poster of dangerous chemicals in foods)Read the CIA and MI5 documents you're not supposed to seeCryptomeSpeaking the

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-23696697586964373922008-04-09T20:51:00.000-07:002009-03-06T20:13:04.642-08:00

An excellent blog by famous financial writer Michael "Mish" Shedlock, on the Federal Reserves recent failed attempts to provide liquidity to the credit markets and help alleviate the mess created by the U.S. financial industry "run amock". THIS is exactly what causes federal regulations in the first place, greedy capitalists will never learn, that you can't just "live for today's profits" and

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-43937026560182373822008-04-06T16:51:00.000-07:002009-02-27T01:29:55.916-08:00

Someone eMailed me that "welfare" is bankrupting us, and illegal aliens, not the war in Iraq, so this was my reply. -- Jman SinclairAm I wrong, or doesn't the US Constitution say they're forming the country "in order to provide for the general welfare", among other reasons?***The U.S. didn't attain wealth through any ingenuity or hard work (unless weapons exports are an example of "genius"), it's

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-74472430514462028022008-02-21T22:39:00.000-08:002009-02-27T00:56:39.471-08:00

The beginning of a list of sites that will help the planet survive.Natural Resources Defense CouncilCenter for Arms ControlBrian Laks has some terrific planet saving sites and links to every technology you need:Brian Laks.Com

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-19488751823527275222008-02-02T02:46:00.000-08:002009-02-26T23:38:41.335-08:00

Journalist Greg Palast is a former corporate fraud investigator for the insurance industry; he became a journalist to write about all the corporate and government corruption he uncovered. He had to move to England to get anything published, since the U.S. media is owned by the corporations he was exposing.His books include The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Armed Madhouse, and From the Big Easy to

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-4233935718096216692008-02-01T23:38:00.000-08:002009-02-26T23:38:41.335-08:00

The Center for Responsive Politics:Open SecretsChuck Lewis' Center for Public Integrity:Public IntegrityFor real info on the war on terror:National Security News ServiceAmerica and the Islamic BombGlobalization WatchdogsCitizens Network on Essential ServicesCenter for Economic and Policy ResearchGlobal Trade WatchInternational Forum on GlobalizationPuppet "President" Pinochet and Henry

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-39496982033289142042008-02-01T22:04:00.000-08:002009-02-26T23:38:41.336-08:00

Check out these internet Media Organizations:Media ChannelConsortium NewsGuerrilla News NetworkBuzz FlashThe Pacifica Radio NetworkFairness and Accuracy in ReportingThe BBCThe Guardian & Observer Reports

Jose Sinclairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-72947330440087149462008-01-31T00:44:00.000-08:002009-02-26T23:38:41.336-08:00

DIGBY'S POLITICAL BLOG LIST[These came from Digby's Hullabaloo site: Hullabaloo ]Blog-o-rama The Big ConAmerican StreetEschatonDemosthenesJames WolcottEzra KleinD-DayMatthew YglesiasPolitical AnimalSisyphus ShruggedGlenn GreenwaldRick PerlsteinFiredoglakeMartini RevolutionThe Unapologetic MexicanTaylor MarshSpocko's BrainBig Brass BlogRsspectTalk LeftDonkey RisingSuburban GuerrillaPaperweight's

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