Niagara Journal

MYOPIC ECONOMICS: Policy for the Rich, Politics as Usual for the People

2012-01-23T20:57:00.002-05:00

POSTED AT AlterNet January 22, 2012The Economic Idiocy of EconomistsBy Mark Weisbrot, Comment Is FreeThe American Economic Association's annual meetings are a scary sight, with thousands of economists all gathered in the same place – a veritable weapon of mass destruction. Chicago was the lucky city for 2012 this past weekend, and I had just finished participating in an interesting panel on "the

The People's Taxes Subsidize the Rich

2011-07-16T12:07:00.003-04:00

FROM: ALTERNET.COM:The Real Reason Big Macs Are Cheaper Than More Nutritious AlternativesBy David Sirota, SalonPosted on July 15, 2011, Printed on July 16, 2011http://www.alternet.org/story/151660This story first appeared on Salon.com.The easiest way to explain Gallup's discovery that millions of Americans are eating fewer fruits and vegetables than they ate last year is to simply crack a snarky

Toxic Parents and the Neglected Child

2011-05-05T10:33:00.003-04:00

If you are having a hard time conceptualizing the irrelevance of the conventional political parties, Democrats and Republicans, to the well-being of the people in this age of the new class war, imagine that they are like toxic parents. That is, the political parties are like those parents who are always narcissisticly arguing with one another. Their venom leaks out all over the neglected

Niagara Times Finally Publishes Useful Information

2011-03-01T12:23:00.005-05:00

THIS IS AN ARTICLE POSTED BY "HOBBES" AT NIAGARA TIMES. MAYBE NIAGARA COUNTIANS WILL BEGIN TO WAKE UP TO THE RADIOACTIVE AND TOXIC SHIT HOLE THEY LIVE IN:March 1, 2011Welcome to Chernobyl at Niagara FallsWhat does the Ukraine have in common with Niagara County, New York? We hear that Pripyat is wonderful this time of the year.There are more than 100 spots (not counting landfills of more than

GOV. WALKER: ASSAULT ON LAW AND DEMOCRACY

2011-02-24T12:04:00.014-05:00

allowfullscreen>REPRINTED FROM "THE BUFFALO BEAST: THIS IS AN ACCOUNT OF A PRANK CALL MADE BY THE EDITOR OF THE BUFFALO BEAST. EDITOR MURPHY CALLS GOV. WALKER OF WISCONSIN, PRETENDING TO BE DAVID KOCH, HIS BILLIONAIRE FINANCIAL BACKER. WALKER FALLS FOR THE RUSE AND DISCLOSES WHO HE REALLY IS, A WHORE OF BILLIONAIRES AND THE DESIRE TO CONTROL GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS IN WISCONSIN:Koch

Diagnosing Division in America

2011-01-17T10:35:00.003-05:00

I reprint an article by Bob Confer published in the Lockport paper. I could not respond to it on his website because my post was too long. So I re-post Bob's article here and respond to it. Divided by designFrom the 17 January 2011 Greater Niagara NewspapersDIVIDED BY DESIGNBy Bob ConferAmerica has been split in twain by the Tucson shooting. Those who align with the Democrats insist on

In Defense of Democracy Against Bloomberg's Apologetics

2010-08-25T11:41:00.005-04:00

Let’s face it. Most of the Islamic world is not interested in democracy. The Muslims interested in colonizing Ground Zero with an extravagant mosque are apparently interested in the kind of “useful” democracy that gets them what they think their money can buy.At least they are not interested in the kind of democracy I and Jefferson are interested in.To follow up on the Bloombergian assault on

A MOSQUE AT GROUND ZERO: Abstract universal rights and tolerance vs the core American value of a Community’s Right to Democratic Self-determination

2010-08-20T23:49:00.022-04:00

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may have finally spoken a few words of wisdom. She asserted that “any controversy surrounding the proposed mosque at Ground Zero should be regarded as a local issue.”If you follow my writings, it will be no surprise that I concur wholeheartedly.This is not to deny that there are national feelings regarding the issue. Obviously, there are. These should be taken into

FOUR VIGNETTES: Cultural Psychology at Work

2010-08-15T12:36:00.003-04:00

• It’s not news that the corporate leviathan now has its sights firmly fixed on consciousness itself. It’s your consciousness that the monster is selling you. It “helps” direct and fix it firmly, usually with considerable emotion, to the commodity of your choice. Or should I say the ‘fantasy’ of your choice. Your attention becomes convincingly fixed on the thing that gives your mind an

The Pseudo-politics of Character Assassination and Disinformation Drones On at Niagara Times

2010-07-19T20:52:00.004-04:00

Today over at Niagara Times blog, good ol’ Hobbes, blog administrator and editorialist extraordinaire, paid me the dubious honor of being the exclusive subject of his day’s labor. He begins by rationalizing why he censored me from his web site. Poor ol’ Hobbes, whomever he/she/it/that may be, seems a tad bit defensive. Hobbes’ claim that I was never able “to articulate [my] thoughts into a

Niagara Times Politico and County Bureaucrats Assault Education at NCCC

2010-07-15T10:58:00.015-04:00

The demagogic pseudo-political hitman over at the Niagara Times blogspot who calls himself “Hobbes,” is once again finding an excuse to assault the integrity of the NCCC Faculty Association. The issue is a shortfall in operational funds due to NYS cutbacks. The issue is not the pending contract for the faculty. The Faculty Association is not holding up funding by the county. The Association

Everybody's talkin' at me, can't hear a word they're sayin'....

2010-07-09T15:33:00.025-04:00

… only the echoes of my mind," as the theme song of Midnight Cowboy declared. Such may well be the status of contemporary political discourse and for good reason. Witness the flakey demagoguery of the three musketeers of mediatized mindlessness: Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman. If I were to add a fourth it would be, hands down, Michael Steele. On any given night one or another

DE-INSTITUTIONALIZING MASS EDUCATION AND CONSTITUTING ORGANIC COMMUNITIES AND CULTURES OF LEARNING

2010-06-23T15:32:00.009-04:00

While it is good and appropriate if not necessary to direct our voices and actions toward getting big government to provide “universal quality education,” it is equally required that the people return to the “classroom.” What I mean here is that unless we turn to ourselves at a local level and create a vital vision for the particular quality and content of education that each community and/or

RAISING ARIZONA

2010-05-24T00:03:00.004-04:00