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Understanding Toyota Sudden Acceleration

As a materials and manufacturing engineer with decades of experience with failure analysis of manufactured products, and as an owner of a Toyota vehicle, I am saddened by the lack of expertise and insight shared with Congress and the public about the sudden acceleration problem. When products fail due to a systemic design, materials or manufacturing flaw, large and statistically... More

Questions for Candidate Palin and Sister Sarah

The New Apostolic Reformation/ NAR is a religious movement of elites and regular people guided by an entire genre of books, texts, videos and other media. Among NAR adherents, is Sarah Palin and the NAR just may be the largest religious movement you’ve never heard of. Jesus called politicians foxes and in a country where Sarah Palin is being touted as presidential material,... More

Stand up for the Palestinian middle class!

“What Palestinian middle class?” you might ask. “Does Palestine even HAVE a middle class?” My point exactly. 60 years ago, there was a thriving middle class in Palestine, but now almost everyone in Palestine is economic toast. Their homes have been foreclosed on. Their jobs have been eliminated or outsourced. Their schools are all shabby.... More

Supressing Evidence, David Miliband and UK Complicity in Torture

By Sarah Gillespie Last Saturday I went to see Polly Nash and Andy Worthington’s harrowing documentary ‘Outside the Law, Tales from Guantánamo’ at London’s BFI. The film knits together narratives so heart-wrenching I half wish I had not heard them. Yet the camaraderie between the detainees and occasional humorous anecdotes, such as Binyam Mohammed’s false confession... More

Project No. 1 – Educating the public on the nature of Federal Reserve Notes

Educating your local 7-11 owner in your local area on the Federal Reserve… Al Takes on Ferd at the Local 7-11 You don’t have to haul in booklets and posters, stand out in the rain, or do anything at all uncomfortable. This project is an outgrowth of a sudden impulse of a friend of mine, Al, who lives in the belly of the beast and experiences a constant state of... More

The Daily Show, Sarah Palin, Microsoft and back to Mordechai Vanunu

Because I watch The Daily Show, I learned Sarah Palin was on a Jay Leno show. She got a few laughs, but nobody was talking about Palin’s connections to the top leaders of “the New Apostolic Reformation/NAR; a religious movement that makes geographic maps of where demons reside. The NAR is a religious network of elites drawn from the ranks of business and government... More

Does the Financial System need New Guard Rails?

There’s finally some good news on the housing front, but it has nothing to do with sales, inventory or interest rates. In fact, it has nothing to do with market conditions at all. It’s a story about politics and how government can work when elected representatives do their jobs. The details are laid out in an article by Dean Baker. Here’s an excerpt: “As... More

The Fight to Save Public Education

March 4 was historic. It will be remembered as the day that people began to fight back against the destruction of public education. The student and teacher led offensive took place in cities across the country; teachers, students and school workers demonstrated and marched, showcasing the aggressive methods of the struggle. San Francisco led the way with the biggest numbers.... More

Winnie the Pooh on Immigration and Race

A couple of Ukrainians are examining some graffiti: Kick a kike and save Russia! One Ukrainian says to the other “Great idea! But who wants to save Russia?” This joke popped into my mind while reading the white nationalist calls: Stop immigration and save the White Race. The means are laudable, but the stated end is irrelevant, at best. You do not have to belong... More

Swiss Minarets

Swiss voters approved a constitutional amendment banning the construction of new minarets last November, to the howls of bien-pensant rage at home and abroad.  The proposal was supported by 57.5 percent of the participating voters and 22 of the 26 Swiss cantons.  It was originally drafted in May 2007 by a group of conservative politicians, known as the Egerkingen Committee,... More

The American “TC” Saga – Introduction

Part 1 – Introduction… In an era of government worship, the supreme social heretic, that threatens the regime, cannot be allowed the utterance of seditious sentiments. How dare any man write such subversion? “When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among... More

We Need Bigger Deficits. Or we’re toast

Barack Obama must choose between high unemployment or large fiscal deficits. It’s one or the other. If he chooses to increase government spending and provide a second round of stimulus; unemployment will fall, the output gap will narrow, business confidence will strengthen, and the economy will continue on the path of recovery. If he refuses to provide more stimulus;... More

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