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Judge bankrupts Trump: $454.5 million fine

Ashley Wells, Sheldon S., Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The judge can't fine me that much, can he?

Trump has been handed an eviction of sorts: He's out of the BBC, the Billionaire Boys' Club, because he can no longer afford the steep membership fees.

• UPDATE: Fine now $454,500,000 because of backdated interest
• Nooooo'oh! Donald Trump ordered to pay $354 million in New York real estate fraud lawsuit (MSN)
• The total fine for the convicted Trump fraudsters is more like $364 million because sons Donald and Eric were also hits with fines and all are barred from being CEOs of any company in New York for three years.

Don't compare me to my dumb nepotistic sons!!

He may have to open up Mar a Lago to Airbnb rentals to cover his expenses.

He has allegedly run up a bill from defense attorneys of $500 million, or half a billion. He was fined $5 million for the rape of a woman he repeatedly defamed and was recently fined an additional $83 million for defaming her (and she has enough evidence to sue him again for doing it again after the trial).

Today's fine is $354 million. And he still faces about 90 criminal cases that may land him in federal prison unless he pays all the rest of his money on better defense attorneys or MAGAots rise up again and break him out of jail through another attempted insurrection that results in a second U.S. Civil War. Let's add it up:

• 354,000,000.00 (today's fine for fraud)
• 500,000,000.00 (defense attorneys' bill)
• 083,000,000.00 (fine for defamation)
• 005,000,000.00 (fine for rape/sexual assault)
• 500,000,000.00 (future legal fees)
• = more than the billion he started with

Will this cost Trump a young trophy wife?

Melania: I'll be taking my half and going now.

If Don John Trump started with a billion (1,000 million), and that's a big if -- given that he was convicted of financial fraud in New York for lying about how much his assets are worth or what he's spending his hush money on, and most of his tax documents do not seem to be examined by the mainstream media that allegedly worked so hard to have access to them -- he is down to almost nothing.

Southern California housing market overvalued

Jeff Collins (OCRegister.com, Dec. 5, 2017); Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Oh, to have a beautiful "home in the country" in the suburbs of Los Angeles like this!

The future in SoCal may be tiny living pods (mini homes) like Portland (The Oregonian/AP).

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It might be better to live in a bus in a garden

After 5 1/2 years of steadily rising home prices, Southern California’s housing market is “overvalued,” real estate data firm CoreLogic reported Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017.

 

As of October the Los Angeles County, Orange County, and Inland Empire housing markets were among 37 top 100 U.S. metro areas where home prices were 10 percent or more above the long-term, sustainable level, according to the data firm’s latest Market Indicators Report. 

• Local housing market cools as median price dips $20K to $690,000
• Map shows extent of So. Cal. apartment boom. Will new construction lower rent?
• Wanna buy a house? Need to earn $120,000 in L.A., $159,000 in OC, $70,000 in IE

or a self-built log cabin in the woods

Twenty-six of those top 100 markets were undervalued, and 37 were “at value,” the report said.

 

Price gains in October, well above the previous year’s averages, helped push market indicators over long-term trends.

 

or build one, like this, for $1,500

Gains reported Tuesday in CoreLogic’s latest Home Price Index were sharpest in the Inland Empire, the region’s most affordable market, rising 8.1 percent. That’s the Riverside-San Bernardino County area’s biggest year-over-year house-price gain in two years. Inland price gains averaged 6.4 percent during the preceding year.

 

Los Angeles County house prices increased 7 percent in the year ending in October, with gains of 5.7 percent in Orange County, the region’s priciest housing market, CoreLogic figures show. Both were also above average gains for the previous 12 months.

 

A lack of supply of homes for sale accounted in large part for fall-time price gains. Southern California home listings have been at five-year lows since late August, a separate report by ReportsOnHousing.com shows. Tight supplies also have been reported both across the state and nationally.

 

Nationwide, the index value for U.S. homes increased 7 percent... More

Gotta get some Bitcoin! Here's how

Pat Macpherson, Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly

Bitcoin is not physical, like the trick "bit" shown here. It's only digital and a bubble.

If Bitcoin is man in black, woman in white is the new investor trying to get rich quick.

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Cash me outside, bitch, and pay me in Bit!

Get rich schemes are getting harder to come by since Internet search engines allow us to research more sides of the story than just the one that makes scammers money.

But have you seen what Bitcoin (BTC), the hot digital cryptocurrency, has been doing lately? It's volatile and has no future in its present form. But along the way from here to there, one can ride the wave of volatility and cash out ahead of the game. Set a reasonable automatic sell point.
 

I can pay you in bit. Are you on tour soon?

It's a risky game. Be prepared to lose it all. Unlike most things, Bitcoin is not a good thing to hold for the long term. Why? Banks and governments are not going to allow themselves to be undermined by an independent alternative currency. They will subvert it, much as they are currently doing by inflating this bubble.

If Bitcoin is so valuable, why are current owners trying to seduce so many new investors into the market? That's how you make money from a bubble. It's like having a poker game among friends. How are you going to get rich? Invite a bunch of nonfriends to join the "friendly" game and milk them for all their money. In this example, you are the nonfriend about to be milked yet you think you're joining a friendly game to get rich off them.

I so wanna get rich quick, I lose it all.

Ever wonder why it is suddenly so volatile? It's because it's about to be listed in normal stock markets so investors can buy futures. Bitcoin is constantly being remade, reformatted, robbed from electronic vaults (which should be impossible but apparently isn't that hard), and precariously depends on the objective Internet, subjective net access, the bitcoin network, and the WWW. One solar flare or pulse bomb, and it all goes bye bye. An investor will still have it in cyberspace but will have no way to cash it in. Ask Danielle Bregoli.

More suckers needed to join our game

It was once possible to buy one Bitcoin for 8 cents. That was a few years ago. One guy bought $600.00's worth. He forgot about them in his hard drive then threw the hard drive away -- and with it, $122,000,000.00 at current prices, depending at what time of day one sells, of course, because the price is changing hourly by thousands of dollars per coin.

How does one get rich in an investment market? "Buy low, sell high." (The trick is there's no way to know ahead of time what "low" means and when the "high" is hit; that's all guesswork). When are people going to be buying? Right now, which is high. When will they be selling? When it's low, after the bubble bursts.

 

How likely is anyone entering the market right now to get rich with Bitcoin? Not likely at all, zero percent. It violates the fundamental rule.

But then why do ads and agents keep promoting Bitcoin? That's so you can salivate, get in higher praying it'll go higher, then you'll be cleaned out when you try to divest after the plunge. They come in and clean up, you go lick your wounds and wish you hadn't mortgaged the house.

Let dana be your path to gold.

Buy gold or silver, as their value never goes to zero. Bitcoin will be supplanted by another cryptocurrency banks and governments control and regulate and treat just like the fiat currency we live under now. What's that other truism about markets? "A fool and his money are soon parted."

See, this is how they get you: by changing the subject right away. Q: "Should I buy bitcoin?" A: "Digital currencies are the future." No one's arguing whether or not digital and cryptocurrencies are sound. The question is whether the bitcoin brand is sound. There will be, there already are, alternative currencies. Like Napster, bitcoin will not be allowed to succeed or come out on top. Bitcoin is not a sacrificial lamb so much as it is a Judas goat that leads others to slaughter.

Stop making sense! I want to buy BTC anyway

Gold, being real, is the opposite of bitcoin. There is no such tangible thing as a Bitcoin.

• Standard Exchanges (bitcoin.com) Buy bitcoin, create bitcoin wallets, read bitcoin news, and more.
• How to buy bitcoin: A step-by-step Guide (businessinsider.com) Using the app Coinbase, we ventured to buy and sell bitcoin, the popular cryptocurrency whose cost has seen massive spikes in recent weeks.
• How to buy Bitcoin (coinbase.com/buy-bitcoin) Coinbase [according to Coinbase] is a secure online platform [app] for buying, selling, transferring, and storing digital currency.
• How to buy bitcoin: A beginner's guide... (independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...) The value of bitcoin has hit a new record high of $11,850.00 [now much higher, 16-17K per BTC), and mainstream interest in the cryptocurrency has skyrocketed. 
• How To Buy Bitcoins (howtobuybitcoins.info) Quickly discover how to buy and sell bitcoins in your local currency. Find the best rates and get streaming price quotes across bitcoin exchanges everywhere! 
• How to buy Bitcoin and Ethereum (mashable.com)
• Basics for Buying and Investing in Bitcoin (investopedia.com) Bitcoin (BTC) is a decentralized cryptocurrency payment system designed by Satoshi Nakamoto. The software-based currency was released to the public in 2009. Since then, updates and improvements have been made by a network of developers, partially funded by the Bitcoin Foundation... 
• Buy - Bitcoin (bitcoin.org/en/buy) Discover people selling Bitcoin in your community. "Local Bitcoins" lets you search and browse through various sellers of Bitcoin in your area. Sellers have reviews and feedback scores to help you choose [sucker].

Standing Rock's fight against Dakota Pipeline!

Amy Goodman (democracynow.org, July 4, 2017); Xochitl, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Wells Fargo Bank supported DAPL oil pipeline

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe recently won a major legal victory in federal court that may have the power to force the shutdown of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline.

District Judge James Boasberg ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration failed to conduct an adequate environmental review of the pipeline, after Pres. Trump ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to fast-track and greenlight its approval.

I'm red, too, so I signed it with my eyes closed.

The judge requested additional briefings next week on whether the pipeline should be shut off until the completion of a full review of a potential oil spill’s impacts on fishing and hunting rights, as well as environmental justice.

The pipeline faced months of massive resistance from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, members of hundreds of other indigenous tribes from across the Americas, as well as non-Native allies.

Democracy Now! speaks with Standing Rock Sioux Chair Dave Archambault II and Nick Tilsen, executive director of the Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation, who is also a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. More:

• Standing Rock Sioux wins major legal victory against Dakota Access Pipeline
• Standing Rock's fight against Dakota Pipeline continues while tribe plans for a fossil-free energy future
• Trump picks DAPL LOBBYIST to oversee EPA water safety same week he rolls back water safeguards 



Author, environmental activist Naomi Klein

• Naomi Klein: The worst is yet to come with Trump, so we must be ready for shock politics
• Standing Rock Sioux chair on militarized repression and ongoing lawsuit to stop Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) 
• Standing Rock Sioux launch wind/solar renewable energy projects after winning million dollar award 
• "A Transformative Vision": Naomi Klein on platforms for racial, health, and climate justice under Trump

Standing Rock Sioux get money to save world!

Grandson of VP Henry Wallace on Standing Rock's fossil-free future and American fascism

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Wallace Global Fund recently awarded the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe the inaugural Henry A. Wallace Award and a $1,000,000.00 (one million US dollar) investment in renewable energy projects led by the tribe. The fund’s Executive Director Ellen Dorsey talks about the "Divest-Invest" movement and Co-Chair Scott Wallace. More + VIDEO

Divest-Invest: foundations urged to back climate solutions while divesting from fossil fuels

Donald Trump in COMICS and news

Wisdom Quarterly; Tom Tomorrow (ThisModernWorld); Jen Sorensen; SNL; AP; Wu-Tang

Spawn Shytzer, White House Spokesperson and Trump Administration representative, and (apparently) former kindergarten teacher (Tom Tomorrow/This Modern World).

Pres. Xi of China, his wife, boorish moron hogging spotlight, long-suffering arm-charm. "Hey, Xi-Xi, watch me bomb a Siree'a. Maybe yours is next is all I'm saying. Would be a pity" (AP).

Dear Diary, I read on Breitbart (a very reliable source) that Obama was tapping my wires!

"Will we balance the budget on the backs of women an families?" (JenSorensen.com)

"Trump's latest horrifyingly unhinged tweet is a distraction from his callous..." (TMW)

Well, who gives a good gawd damn, I'm still bigly the "president," ain't I? Take that, f'ers.

Most Americans in 2017 consider Don John Trump an "illegitimate" president (AP).

Donald Hump in "Tremendous Stamina" -- who is this guy? (JenSorensen.com)

"Syria's blood on Washington's hands" - peaceful demonstrators against Trump carry placards during a rally against U.S. missile strikes on Syria, Friday, April 7, 2017, in NY after Trump/U.S. fired ~57 $1.5mil+ cruise missiles into Syria on Thursday night using pretext of a chemical weapons attack against civilians earlier in the week. MLK Jr. quote: "The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government" (AP).

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Hey, Wu-Tang, what's life like in Trump country?

"C.R.E.A.M." (Cash Rules Everything Around Me) LYRICS (genius.com)

The Anarchist Cookbook (video)

WM. POWELL OBIT: Steve Marble (latimes.com, 4-3-17); Dagbladet; FTD; Wisdom Quarterly

See the 2017 trailer for American Anarchist, a film about radical author William Powell.

William Powell wrote The Anarchist Cookbook

In 1969, an enraged 19-year-old American (dead at 66) caught up in the social unrest of the period holed up in the NY Public Library and pored through every shred of mayhem he could find -- declassified military documents, US Army field guides, electronic catalogs, insurrectionist pamphlets, and survivalist manuals and eventually emerged with The Anarchist Cookbook.
 

Anti-Trump protest, police state response (AP)

Containing detailed instructions for making TNT and “converting a shotgun into a grenade... More
 

[NOTE: If you order it, they'll track you and only be able to buy a heavily censored and redacted version of the bestseller for Lyle Stuart Inc., when you can probably find a real edition in a used bookstore somewhere. You have no right to read this in a free democracy. But a police state has a right, some would say an obligation, to censor it and keep it from you.]

What is anarchy?

Woo! Anarchy! Woo, yeah! (laweekly.com)

There can be no anarchy as a form of governance unless people take responsibility for themselves. Then if they want some governing, they choose it the way we are promised we get can choose. We do not choose. We get fed one thing and told it's another. Far from "chaos," as they train to believe, anarchy is anti-authoritarianism, rebellion, self-rule rather than accepting the oppression brought on by profiteers, capitalists (owners of the means of production), fascists with militarized police and legalized-violence as their instrument. This film explains it well:

Anarchism in America
(PacificStreetFilms.com/FTD) Search: "ForTheDishwasher," Twitter, Pinterest, DailyMotion

Say "(Hell) no!" to illegitimate authority.

Anarchism in America is a colorful and provocative 1983 survey of anarchism in America. The film dispels popular misconceptions about "anarchy" and traces the historical development of the American Anarchy Movement. The film explores the movement both as a native American philosophy stemming from 19th century American traditions of individualism, and as a foreign ideology brought to America by immigrants.

Hell no, Trump!

The film features rare archival footage and interviews with significant personalities in anarchist history including Murray Boochkin and Karl Hess, and also live performance footage of the super-intelligent San Francisco punk rock band the Dead Kennedys.
 

• VIDEO: David Graeber American Anarchist (London Real)
• VIDEO: This is Anarchism (in 10 Minutes)
• David Graeber: "DEBT: The First 5,000 Years" (Google Talks)
• VIDEO: 1957 Kid explaining to an old man what an Anarchist is and why government equals violence
• Well-Read Anarchist: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (Corbett Report)
• MOVIES: The long-lasting effects of revolutionary rhetoric explored in the documentary "American Anarchist"

Will Greece rise again?

Dody Tsiantar (america.aljazeera.com); Wisdom Quarterly

"No" [to EU demand] voters celebrated Sunday’s referendum result, but Greece’s financial crisis set to continue, with no end in sight. (Chris Ratcliffe /Bloomberg/Getty Images)

 

Having thumbed nose at creditors, Athenians eye future with concern

What would Homer do, EU?

ATHENS, modern Greece - As it became clear [yesterday] Sunday night that nearly two-thirds of Greek voters had given a thumbs-down to the deal offered by the country’s creditors, the main square in Athens, Syntagma, erupted into an impromptu celebration. Crowds cheered and waved Greek flags. Some danced.

 

But [today] Monday morning, Greeks woke up with a hangover, so to speak. The jubilation evident in the square just the night before gave way to the harsh reality that a solution for Greece’s financial crisis is nowhere in sight.

 

Greek/Roman goddesses (Wandering39soul/deviantart.com)

The country still has to negotiate with its creditors, banks are closed, and no one knows for sure when they will reopen. For now, people cannot take out more than 60 euros a day, or about $67, and even those with cash stashed safely in deposit boxes aren’t sure they can get to their money anytime soon. 

Adding to people’s confusion, the country’s pugnacious finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis -- one of the architects of the vote -- abruptly resigned Monday morning, even though the vote went the way the government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras wanted.

 

In Zografou, a neighborhood in central Athens where close to 56 percent voted against the proposal and 44 percent voted in favor of it, the mood was mixed Monday morning, ranging from cautious optimism to despair. More

• Greek finance minister resigns
• The aftermath of Greece's "No" vote
• Who is really being bailed out in Greece?

"GREED is good"? (Family Guy cartoon)

Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Natural Born Republican Oliver Stone, Hollywood Liberal Michael Douglas; IMDB.com; Stewie and Brian (Family Guy/FOX TV)

WARNING: Extreme, graphic, animated, gratuitous loan-repayment violence! Rated NC-17!

It says so right on the new American dollar, the trusty greenback, "In Greed We Trust"

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Gold dust day gecko (wiki)

In Oliver Stone's "Wall Street," the lead Reptilian (Naga), Gordon Gekko, explains:

"The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work. [The other] two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do -- stock and real estate speculation. It's b-llsh-t.

Violent US football, greed, gambling, drinking

"You got 90% of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own. We make the rules, pal. The news, war, peace, famine, upheaval, the price per paper clip -- we pick that rabbit out of the hat while everybody sits out there wondering how the hell we did it. Now you're not naive enough to think we're living in a democracy, are you, buddy?

It's the free market. And you're a part of it. You've got that killer instinct. Stick around, pal, I've still got a lot to teach you...." "If you need a friend, get a dog.

Titan (asura) dragon Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Bud Fox: "Sun-Tzu: If your enemy is superior, evade him. If angry, irritate him. If equally matched, fight. And if not, split and reevaluate."
 

Carl Fox: "Money's only something you need in case you don't die tomorrow..."
 

Gordon Gekko: The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

 

Carl Fox: "Stop going for the easy buck, and start producing something with your life. Create instead of living off the buying and selling of others."

  

Lou Mannheim: "Man looks in the abyss; there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." "The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.

 

Stealing on an industrial scale: Wall Street, NY, home of the brutal U.S. brand of capitalism.

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Wake up before you're "poor"!

Gordon Gekko: [At the Teldar Paper stockholder's meeting] "Well, I appreciate the opportunity you're giving me, Mr. Cromwell, as the single largest shareholder in Teldar Paper, to speak. Well, ladies and gentlemen, we're not here to indulge in fantasy but in political and economic reality. America, America has become a second-rate power. Its trade deficit and its fiscal deficit are at nightmare proportions. Now, in the days of the free market, when our country was a top industrial power, there was accountability to the stockholder. 

Destroy us, but who cares? As long as I'm rich.

"The Carnegies, the Mellons, the men that built this great industrial empire, made sure of it because it was their money at stake. Today, management has no stake in the company! All together, these men sitting up here own less than three percent of the company. And where does Mr. Cromwell put his million-dollar salary? Not in Teldar stock; he owns less than one percent. You own the company. That's right, you, the stockholder. And you are all being royally screwed over by these, these bureaucrats, with their luncheons, their hunting and fishing trips, their corporate jets and golden parachutes."

Why feed the needy when you can feed the greedy? "End corporate welfare and maybe we can get people off welfare." Disaster capitalism means getting rich from public coffers.

  
Cromwell: "This is an outrage! You're out of line, Gekko!"

If too much is not enough, maybe more?

Gordon Gekko: Teldar Paper, Mr. Cromwell, Teldar Paper has 33 different vice presidents each earning over $200,000.00 a year. Now, I have spent the last two months analyzing what all these guys do, and I still can't figure it out. One thing I do know is that our paper company lost $110,000,000.00 last year, and I'll bet that half of that was spent in all the paperwork going back and forth between all these vice presidents. The new law of evolution in corporate America seems to be survival of the unfittest. Well, in my book you either do it right or you get eliminated. In the last seven deals that I've been involved with, there were 2.5 million stockholders who have made a pretax profit of 12 billion dollars. Thank you. I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them! The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

In Benjamin I trust. It's all about the Bens!

"Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed in all of its forms -- greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge -- has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. Thank you very much."

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Stop runaway capitalism. End the climate crisis that's killing our planet! #FloodWallStreet

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"Fox, where the hell are you? I am losing MILLIONS! You got me into this airline, and you sure as hell better get me out or the only job you'll ever have on the Street is SWEEPING it! You hear me, Fox?"

 

Bud Fox: "You once told me, don't get emotional about stock. Don't! The bid is 16.5 and going down. As your broker, I advise you to take it."
 
Gordon Gekko: "Yeah. Well you TAKE IT! [shouting] right in the -ss, you f--king sc-mb-g c-cks-ck-r!"
 
Bud Fox: "It's two minutes to closing, Gordon. What do you want to do? Decide."
 

Gordon Gekko: [calming down] "Dump it." [Later, meeting alone together in Central Park] "Hiya, Buddy."

 

Bud Fox: [Nods as the both walk up to face one another] "Gordon."

 

Occupy Wall Street, Charlie Brown!

Gordon Gekko: [With a smirk on his face] "Sand bagged me on Bluestar, huh? I guess you think you taught the teacher a lesson that the tail can wag the dog, huh? Well, let me clue you in, pal. The ice is melting right underneath your feet." [Punches Bud and grabs him by the coattails] "Did you think you could've gotten this far this fast with anyone else, huh? That you'd be out there d-cking someone like Darien? No.

"I am the 1%." What are you?

"You'd still be cold-calling widows and dentists trying to sell them 20 shares of some dog sh-t stock. I took you in [hits him again] a NOBODY! [hits him again] I opened the doors for you! Showed you how the system works! The value of information! How to get it! Fulham Oil! Brant Resources! Geodynamics! And this is how you f-cking pay me back, you COCKROACH? [He hits him once again and Bud falls to the ground]. I GAVE you Darien. I GAVE you your manhood. I gave you EVERYTHING!"

Where's my money?

[He calms down then takes out his handkerchief and throws it to Bud to clean off the blood the way Stewie once threw a towel at Brian after beating and torturing him -- in the video above -- over a late loan payment saying, "Here, clean yourself off."]

 

Gordon Gekko: "You could've been one of the great ones, Buddy. I looked at you and saw myself. Why?"

(Showtime) Formerly Republican Oliver Stone goes good:  "Untold History of the United States," Episode 3, The Bomb

• Are you a fox or a wolf on MLK Day 2015? Don't confuse non-resistance with non-violent resistance. Resist like a ninja, like a flexible tree, like water that gives way only to come back again and again and again. "We shall overcome" as Malcolm X, SNCC, Marley and others would all agree.
• Global power project: Bilderberg Group and Int'l Monetary Fund (occupy.com)
• Canada casts global surveillance dragnet over file downloads (Glenn Greenwald)
• Middle class shrinks further as more fall out instead of climbing up
• Manufacturing TERROR: How FBI invents some plots and ignores others in their war on freedom
• Pressured by Monsanto, Europe backtracks on GMOs as food fight shifts
• London's supremacy grows as Britain's north-south economic divide widens

Scarcity? Here's my share. Don't touch it or I'll kill you! What did you get for yourself?