- In the Criminal Age IN THE CRIMINAL AGE by James C. Henderson In the criminal age, in this time of corruption In this age of fiat currencies, gamed economies failing governments, and a dying planet I have tried to love you as best I can. In this time of brutality where the innocent perish so the cruel may profit, […]
- The Second Occupation THE SECOND OCCUPATION by Athena M. Henderson When I was a young girl in Greece, I saw a German soldier digging on a hill— the site of our village’s ancient acropolis. Late in the afternoon, when cicadas stopped singing, he worked. All through my growling belly, my weak arms, the sores on my legs from […]
- The Pledge of Egregiance THE PLEDGE OF EGREGIANCE by Cheryl Kathleen Gerth I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United Stocks of the Ameristocracy, and to the oligarchy for which it stands, one notion under money, uninhibitable, with misery and just less for all.
- Representative Democracy? REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY? by Scott Thompson onservatives and right libertarians sometimes argue that the United States is supposed to be a republic, not a democracy. According to this argument, a republic is an elected government in which the individual has sovereign rights, and a democracy is a “tyranny of the majority” in which the minority has […]
- Standing up in the State of Minnesota STANDING UP IN THE STATE OF MINNESOTA by Cheryl Kathleen Gerth here is no mistaking that Citizens United is one of the most egregiously prejudiced rulings in the history of the United States judicial system. Borne under the auspices of corporate greed, its conception and enactment have served only to fuel and enforce the power […]
- The Art of Arbitrage THE ART OF ARBITRAGE by James C. Henderson rbitrage is the simultaneous buying and selling of securities, currency, or commodities in various markets to exploit slight differences between acquisition cost and market value. It is all about relative value. The term has another meaning from the late Middle English. Arbitrage here is defined as the […]
- Occupy Revisited OCCUPY REVISITED by James C. Henderson It’s been over a year since we occupied the Hennepin County Government Center Plaza in Minneapolis, Minnesota. We called it, “The People’s Plaza” and then populated it with liberated people day and night. It’s empty now.
- The American Legislative Exchange Council THE AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL A Speech Given at the Minnesota Capitol in March 2012 by Scott Thompson ur country right now is in a state of denial. What we say we want and what we’ve actually built for ourselves are two totally different things, and people manage to live with that contradiction by just […]
- I don’t want to be a puppet on a string-we are all individual, creative natures! I DON’T WANT TO BE A PUPPET ON A STRING–WE ARE ALL INDIVIDUAL, CREATIVE NATURES! by Axel Pätzold Deep in my heart, I feel we are starting up into a time of “separating and rectifying spirits”– we are starting up into a time beyond manipulation, beyond misusing our power. Are the proclaimed values of the […]