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• CFTC charges Optiver with oil-market manipulation - Typical pick a smallgy to fry but leave he Investment Banks Alone!!!

  Thu Jul 24, 2008
  • Until we take the gloves off the investment banks they will continue to find special ways to take our money in any manner fashion or form possible. Forest

• Why Obama/Clinton Ticket is no "Nightmare"

  Fri May 23, 2008
  • How tellingly uncomfortable it is when not only the other party makes a "joke" about assassination at the NRA pow-wow, but that it leers again... from your own party. It is not particularly funny anymore.

• Why Obama/Clinton Ticket is no "Nightmare"

  Fri May 23, 2008
  • Those latter issues are above and beyond what we, America, have to reconcile. The race issue is very real and festers deeply now in the current generation. As does the perception of women being not necessarily viable in their intellect, decision-making skills, etc.

• Why Obama/Clinton Ticket is no "Nightmare"

  Fri May 23, 2008
  • Encompassing, yet pragmatic, Forest. Here in Oregon, and especially as a scientist, I forget the very real bigotry and prevalence of vast ism's present in our country.

• "A Country Without a Leader"

  Wed Apr 30, 2008
  • This rather delicate, for you, synopsis was the fireside chat that was once expected too long ago.

• Parced and Weary Citizens.....

  Thu Jan 24, 2008
  • Damn good to see a man stick to his guns in the most humane sense, lest we not forget those intrinsic rights that we have thus been denied.

• MSNBC.COM....Celebration's Over....What's your Plan for Newsvine....

  Thu Oct 18, 2007
  • This could be the post that begins the avalanche of questions and fears. Newsvine has long been a relatively safe arena to vent ideas, opinions as well as news and its interpretations.

• The growing Black Hole in US History.....Getting Rid of Presidents....Lemmings rule....

  Sun Oct 14, 2007
  • Forest, This is a brilliant, and surprisingly succinct, culmination of the many massive ideas of what would be progress that you have eluded to before. It's striking to see our present reality as an consequential evolution of non-logic.

• And we are writers, one and all

  Sat Apr 7, 2007
  • This intimately reminds me of a writer's journal I once kept. On one side of the book was my writing, on the opposite my thoughts upon what was written. Ever often was my own comment "you own that thought," or "stop justifying."

• United we Stand: Chomsky to the Test: to Jamesjones an Answer

  Mon Apr 9, 2007
  • Inciting empowerment versus acceptance of helplessness. Why the later is so prominent in a 'democracy' ought to shout out an alarm to our sensibilities, yet we need be reminded.