tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70271251434488209782024-03-14T00:41:46.112-07:00National RageResources and Rants for Active CitizensJosé Sinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03860067230183443583noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-44080838885863391212009-12-18T18:26:00.000-08:002009-12-18T18:33:24.293-08:00International Legal Aid or a Fabricated Intelligence Hoax?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 José Sinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03860067230183443583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-7632046220705531602009-08-04T01:01:00.000-07:002009-08-04T01:09:40.073-07:00Capitalism, Vietnamese StyleWhen 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 José Sinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03860067230183443583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-48365751601594993772009-07-21T12:22:00.000-07:002009-07-21T12:32:36.559-07:00What's Wrong With the U.S. Picture?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 José Sinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03860067230183443583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-26478810263966244942009-07-07T18:55:00.000-07:002009-07-07T18:56:26.315-07:00News Video from Xinjiang RiotsThe authorities in China have now killed over 140 demonstrators in the riots in the Xinjiang province.José Sinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03860067230183443583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-75000700008652090262009-06-23T19:21:00.000-07:002009-07-07T18:57:07.764-07:00Dylan Ratigan's MSNBC Show Premieres June 29thDylan 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 José Sinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03860067230183443583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-48948384767930865302009-06-22T14:51:00.000-07:002009-06-22T19:31:38.168-07:00Government of, by, and for the CorporationsChina 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 José Sinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03860067230183443583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-27726003316116073702009-05-30T21:43:00.000-07:002009-05-30T21:52:14.860-07:00The 9/11 Trainer Was an FBI Informant[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, José Sinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03860067230183443583noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-43207554945041950762009-05-23T17:13:00.000-07:002009-05-23T15:10:12.177-07:00The Memory Loss Tapes, Alzheimer's Project on HBO, Sunday 9pmHBO 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 José Sinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03860067230183443583noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-88687333464972170122009-05-13T19:17:00.000-07:002009-05-18T20:52:33.596-07:00How to Save the EconomyWell, 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, José Sinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03860067230183443583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-37177318511026943852009-05-11T21:26:00.000-07:002009-05-11T21:29:54.178-07:00Iran Frees Journalist SaberiSaberi, 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 IranJosé Sinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03860067230183443583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-46397490405254501422009-05-08T22:41:00.000-07:002009-05-11T21:33:15.162-07:00Free Roxana SaberiUpdate: 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 storyJosé Sinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03860067230183443583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-50612174783316034762009-05-05T12:05:00.000-07:002009-05-05T12:26:23.686-07:00Fed Refuses to Help Credit Card HoldersIf 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 José Sinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03860067230183443583noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-167235911410077122009-04-30T20:31:00.000-07:002009-05-09T18:04:34.248-07:00Zodiac Killer Revealed by Daughter?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 José Sinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03860067230183443583noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-55259152922609280212009-04-29T16:15:00.000-07:002009-05-01T22:41:56.279-07:00Are Foreign Enemies Crushing Our Markets?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 José Sinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03860067230183443583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-3026372520722509922009-04-28T00:32:00.000-07:002009-04-28T00:39:46.126-07:00Can the World Attain Peace?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 José Sinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03860067230183443583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-43869390130638718112009-04-22T20:46:00.000-07:002009-04-22T20:51:31.283-07:00The Daily Market ReversalUp 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 aJosé Sinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03860067230183443583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-73493532628993681002009-04-06T02:32:00.000-07:002009-04-06T02:39:23.902-07:00The Dumbest Ongoing Product BansEveryone 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 José Sinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03860067230183443583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-34177945385392332972009-04-05T13:11:00.000-07:002009-04-05T13:13:41.686-07:00Thoreau on the State vs the Individual"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 José Sinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03860067230183443583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-3034685389254998232009-03-27T15:16:00.000-07:002009-03-27T15:27:42.711-07:00Religions Need Financial Auditing for National Security"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 José Sinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03860067230183443583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-72412138565114297902009-03-20T02:23:00.000-07:002009-03-20T02:42:23.814-07:00Not Responsible for AccidentsEver 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, José Sinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03860067230183443583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-10330808680526205442009-03-18T18:27:00.000-07:002009-03-18T20:55:20.435-07:00Obama Walking and Chewing Gum at the Town Meeting“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 José Sinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03860067230183443583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-46022993628503217332009-03-11T17:12:00.000-07:002009-03-11T17:45:10.779-07:00Anyone Else Tired of Billionaires?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 José Sinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03860067230183443583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-37596462832025664332009-03-06T17:52:00.000-08:002009-03-06T20:30:02.279-08:00A Secret Economic War Going On?[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 José Sinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03860067230183443583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-32499390695645805722009-03-04T21:08:00.000-08:002009-03-04T21:29:00.199-08:00Former Qwest Head Goes To PrisonThis 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 José Sinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03860067230183443583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027125143448820978.post-1889727123724422762009-03-03T21:51:00.000-08:002009-03-04T03:49:33.056-08:00Will the Right Wing Leave Obama Alone Already?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 José Sinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03860067230183443583noreply@blogger.com0