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Re-envisioning the FM website, becoming soldiers in the war for American’s future

By / 33 Comments / 21 December 2009

Summary:  The FM website has changed in recent months.  This is an annoucement of that change.  This is what they call in serial fiction (e.g., TV,  comic books) a retroactive continuity (retcon). This site was born as one providing analysis.  It’s readers were not satisfied, demanding solutions — and rightly so.  After months of evolution, …

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Attention fellow sheep: let’s open our eyes and see the walls of our pen

By / 23 Comments / 19 December 2009

These are self-explanatory, and would arouse rage in any but the most domesticated of subjects. These are brief excerpts. I esp recommend reading the first in full. Then doing something about it. Do something, anything. Passivity is our greatest enemy. Contents “Who’s in Big Brother’s Database?“, by James Bamford, New York Review of Books, 5 …

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About Goldman Sachs, the exemplar of our financial system

By / Leave a Comment / 23 November 2019

The stories about Goldman Sachs seem to be arousing outrage, as deeper but more abstract analysis has not.  As the saying goes, “It’s Goldman’s world; we just live in it”. While Goldman is just one firm, it is first among equals in the financial sector and among the most successful of exploiting the current US …

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Please read this. For the sake of yourself, your children, and their children

By / 47 Comments / 19 December 2009

It is not too soon — or too late — to become angry.  Evidence continues to pour in that our government needs to be shaken like a dirty rug.  Are we weaker than the people of Iran?  How much evidence do we need to spark outrage? To jump-start this process, please read this article:   “The …

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The first step on the road to America’s reform

By / 97 Comments / 10 November 2012

This site has had many discussions about reforming America.   How to put us back on the path to security, prosperity, and freedom.  Recalling who we are.  The need is admitted by all, but the means — the process of reform — remains unclear. I have suggested several ways this can run, but none have been …

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