American Consumer Dream

"I think he makes people angry because they have this belief that if only they had a little more money, they'd be happy," Nash says. "His lifestyle is a challenge to their Holy Grail, the American consumer capitalist dream."

That quote is from an interesting human interest article about a college educated person who lives outside Moab in a cave.

"The point is to live freely, in the present, freely giving and freely taking, which is the way of nature," he says. "The idea is to give up control of credit and debt, and just trust the cycle of nature."

California Department of Finance Director Reads Constitution

In this article about California's budget mess, California's finance director claims he looked for a way to secede.

"I looked as hard as I could at how states could declare bankruptcy," said Michael Genest, director of the California Department of Finance who is stepping down at the end of the year. "I literally looked at the federal constitution to see if there was a way for states to return to territory status."

While it is unclear how leaving the USA would help California's budget mess, history is clear about what happened when states tried to secede. Remember the Civil War (sometimes known as the War Against Southern Independence)?

USA Is A Corporation?

Dun and Bradstreet, a provider of business information, provides an interesting view into the federal government.

The following results were obtained by going to http://www.dnb.com/us/
and entering
obama
united states
district of columbia

Why would THE US CAPITOL, GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, BARACK H OBAMA, and UNITED STATES SENATE be businesses?

Vaccine Pusher Ca$hing In

This medical doctor is pushing vaccines while owning stock in vaccine manufacturers. This is unethical and a glaring conflict of interest.

Conflicts of interest? Dr. Mehmet Oz owns 150,000 option shares in vaccine technology company
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

(NaturalNews) Dr. Mehmet Oz is a huge promoter of vaccines. He's been on television reinforcing fear about H1N1 swine flu and telling everyone to get vaccinated. But what he didn't tell his viewing audience is that he holds 150,000 option shares in a vaccine company that could earn him millions of dollars in profits as the stock price rises.

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That evidence includes an SEC document detailing how Dr. Oz. bought options on stocks for SIGA Technologies in 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2009. SIGA Technologies (stock symbol SIGA) is a vaccine technology company with many advanced developments whose success depends on the widespread adoption of vaccines.

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