Jets dim sun over U.S. by spraying plumes of coal ash, scientist says, sickening people
Tennessee is the target of an intense program of artificial cloudmaking for which has been made “no public admission, no understanding, no academic investigations, no informed consent, and no disclosure as to the nature of the toxic substances being dispersed into the air,” a critic asserts. (Photo Tennessee Skywatch Facebook) The skies over Chattanooga are […]
Purpose of Common Core: Centralize, standardize, digitize, harvest the young
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. (The more that changes, the more it’s the same thing.) — French proverb In part a review of The Educator & the Oligarch: A Teacher Challenges the Gates Foundation by Anthony Cody. (New York, Garn Press, 2014. 199 pages, no index. $15.30 from abebooks.com) By Franklin Sanders […]
‘Noogacentric’ hot news talk radio platform brings prosperity into view
A car dealer uses balloons to bring shoppers to his lot. (Photo Bankrate.com) Lococentrism is something richer and better than the standard Civic Forum and chamber of commerce variety. It is full of our specific place on the map. But also more. It is about ideas, about free markets and free minds, of people submitted […]
Public person vs. private — which will be more common after meltdown?
Identity theft affects a person’s avatar, or his legal identity. Mischief against an avatar entangles a flesh-and-blood human being. (Photo Page 1, Wall Street Journal, Aug. 8, 2015) By David Tulis It’s hard to fix into the same spot questions about the coming financial meltdown and your personal legal status as a public person. If […]
Wendy’s honors claim check; Uncle doesn’t with his debased notes
A lawful bill, this receipt gives me a legal claim to five menu items at Wendy’s. Would that a dollar bill were so honest. By David Tulis Prodded by a son, 12, I agree to join other dads and sons in a Wendy’s restaurant after a hot Saturday morning of mowing, cutting and clearing trails […]
Passive, pessimistic city pulpits face invigorating conflict
By Bojidar Marinov / From Axe to the Root For anyone who has followed and understands the relationship between church leadership and civil government in the U.S. in the last 50 years, declarations of American pastors pledging civil disobedience in case the Supreme Court decides to favor sodomite “marriage” (like this one, for example, or […]
The new slave trade; how national economy sucks us dry
(Cartoon The Moneychanger) We are all, North and South, engaged in the White Slave Trade, and he who succeeds best is esteemed most respectable. It is far more cruel than the Black Slave Trade, because it exacts more of its slaves, and neither protects nor governs them . . . we will . . . […]
Corker says NSA collecting too little data on Americans
Sen. Bob Corker, whose government is collecting a woman’s cellphone call, meets with voters October 2014 in Benton County. (Photo corker.senate.gov) The program is actually not the program I thought it was. Not even close,I think you are going to see people on both sides of the aisle pushing, wondering why not more data is […]
Policy skies: Intense aerosol dosings of Tennessee cities blot sunlight
Heavy sky striping Thursday morning preceded the arrival over Chattanooga of a blank haze of official pollution that blots the sun. (Photo Blacky Darr) Jet trails put reverse tattoos over the skies of Eastern Tennessee on Thursday. (Photo Michelle Proctor) A sawed-off cloud over Bristol, Tenn., showing how negative emissions are controlled, not inadvertent. (Photo […]
Fed-led brave new national economy: All propeller, no charts
The Zimbabwe dollar, late bastard brother to the American Federal Reserve dollar, suffers a like congenital deformation. Here, a 100 trillion dollar bill The greatest poison in your local economy and mine is the fluctuating medium of exchange known as the paper dollar and the excesses it engenders, starting with the greatest one of all, […]