Sunday, August 12, 2007

MST3K Reborn!

I used to absolutely love Mystery Science Theater 3000. Well the guys who made it are back (but without the robots). They are doing their thing here

I have it on good authority that they are in top form. I think I'll rent Road House next weekend!

John

Thursday, August 9, 2007

A free market?

Apparently there was some discussion among my family recently about the Federal Reserve and the current economic climate. It certainly appears that the "Plunge Protection Team" is hard at work .


The Federal Reserve and now the European Central Bank are pumping "money" into the markets, apparently to stave off a market collapse

If you understand fractional reserve banking you know that a crash is inevitable sooner or later. If you have no idea what I am talking about then I would suggest reading "The Creature from Jekyll Island" by G. Edward Griffin. You can also hear a decent interview with him below:


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More on this later.

John

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Freedom Next Time -- John Pilger

Listened to yesterday's podcast of Democracy Now (you can get it here). In addition to their usual news reporting they included a talk by journalist John Pilger. I found it inspiring, enlightening, hopeful, and devastating. I did a little digging and also found the speech on YouTube. Here it is:




John

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

First Post

"In the beginning was the Word"

Welcome to the first post of my blog! I will be posting about all of the things that interest me. Hopefully you will find something of interest for you as well.

If you are curious about the things that interest me then hold on, it's going to be a wild ride.