We have been witness to a 30 year effort to globalize America. We gave barely a notice as President Carter gave up the Panama Canal. Today China is working to double the width and capacity of the canal. We watched as Regan implemented the era of greed is good and bigger is better and relegated [...]
Bank Of America has announced that it will no longer process payments to WikiLeaks. This moves follows similar actions by Visa, Master Card and Paypal. Rumor has it that WikiLeaks is reportedly readying a document dump that targets Bank of America. Back in 2009 Julian Assange said he had 5 Gigs of data from a [...]
The voters made it plain and clear enough that even a dunce should get it. What does that say about Congress? Well they went right ahead and loaded up the big Omnibus spending bill for the government with Pork. About 9 Billion dollars worth of Pork. Granted if you take the pork (9 Billion) it [...]
Free trade is not free! Don´t believe me? Just ask any one of the millions of people who lost there good paying job when the greedy company they worked for moved manufacturing overseas. Ian Fletcher in his book Free Trade Doesn´t Work wrote that the ground is shifting under the free traders feet for two [...]
What´s up with this? In Louisana funeral directors were threatening a bunch of monks who were hand-crafting coffins out of pine trees knocked down by Hurricane Katrina with jail time. After the threat, the monks continued to make caskets, but tried to keep the activity quiet The funeral regulatory board literally sent out investigators to [...]
It seems city officials misappropriated $5.5 million in Bell California´s municipal funds . This is turning into one of the largest cases of municipal corruption cases in recent history. The arrests included eight greedy city council members and Robert Rizzo who it looks like was the kingpin. Rizzo alone was charged with 53 counts of [...]
Most of the criticism and bad feelings have so far been aimed at BP which is understandable because they erred on the side of profit instead of safety. Several warning signs that started hours before the explosion and fire were ignored by the rig bosses despite warnings from various members of the crew. This should [...]
We should hold criminally liable the senators, the representatives, the EPA administrator and the Department of Interior administrator under George W. Bush who allowed big oil to drill in the Gulf of Mexico without an adequate safety plan… The Obama administration should make public the minutes from the secret meetings that Dick Cheney held with [...]
In Grand Isle Louisiana until today there were maybe 20 or so people working at cleaning up the oil and scum on the beach with rakes and shovels. UNTIL TODAY. Hmmm, what was different about today? The president was coming of course. Today there were hundreds of people working on beach clean up all dressed [...]
A BOP (Blow Out Preventer) back up system is required in every country except the United States. Why not here? Because it was recommended but left it up to the industry to do the right thing. Big Mistake! Has nobody in Washington got it? You never leave anything up to big business and corporations, they [...]
Since 2008 officials in the Illinois attorney general’s office have counted more than 200,000 sex ads in the Chicago section of Craigslist alone. Last week, federal prosecutors accused members of the notorious Gambino crime family of using Craigslist to sell the sexual services of girls as young as 15 years old. Craigslist is expected to [...]
Break out the Aspirin Of course we all know by now about Google´s frayed relation with China. China Pullout Deliberate Plot, but you might not have heard the climate in China seems to be getting worse for a lot of western business´s. A big thing is China´s currency manipulation by keeping it artificially low thereby [...]
The country of origin food labeling law was passed several years ago. Guess what folks it was never funded or put into effect!! No surprise there right? That is because congress and the bush gang could care less about your safety and the right to know where your meat and veggies come from. Why you [...]
A group that opposes Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s business practices plans to target what it calls the retailer’s core conservative Republican customers with a new television advertising campaign, saying the company is “not American anymore.” The Brass Monkey could not agree more! See some of our past cartoons on this here *The Great Wall of Mart [...]
