I was watching two jets in the evening sky, tiny little pinpoints with what looked like three inch white contrail tails behind them. The contrails were the only reason I could see them. That’s how high they were flying and they were moving across the sky so quickly. I live close to Vandenberg AFB so I think that’s where they are coming from. It then occurred to me, why do we actually have a standing military infantry anymore when we have such advanced aircraft among other military hardware that ...

problems today. (Link) Posted on January 29, 2007 Single-Payer Health Care Advocates Bring Campaign to D.C. By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer 1/29/2007 PHILADELPHIA (PAI)—At Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, a 60-year-old woman has been hospitalized for weeks suffering from heart failure. Patricia Eakin says she should not have been in the hospital in the first place. But the woman is there, at great expense to the hospital and—because she lacked health insurance—ultimately to t...

(Link) Are you racist? The test that claims to know By Lucy Wilkins BBC News Can a five-minute online test help tell whether you are racist or not? In the US, two million people have taken one and now a UK version is available. Racism is a reality encountered every day in Britain, but how many people actually consider themselves racist? It's difficult to be sure because people's true feelings are inevitably concealed by their politeness. So much so that those who harbour prejudice somet...

If 300 trillion dollars were invested in safe interest bearing bonds, this government could hold the money in trust for every man, woman and child in America both citizens and residents. At an average rate of 4% that would amount to forty thousand a year for each person that could be distributed for health care, education, emergencies, unemployment and the many things that come up in one's life time. Each new baby born would get their million dollars in trust as a lifetime stipend. This would...

According to the Pew Hispanic Center, a good place to get stats about this issue, half of them enter legally through ports of entry. Since the illegal in "illegal immigrants" is about them crossing the border illegally, it seems to make the designation of "illegal immigrants" even more inaccurate. The PHC prefers to call them "unauthorized". Since this is a pdf file I can't copy and paste so you will have to read for yourselves. (Link) It makes stationing the National Guards at the state bord...

Things we don't know because our news has gone AWOL. With all the hateful talk about immigrants, I thought I would monitor the news on the Spanish cable channels I get. The big news is about the nationwide miner's strike in Mexico due to a mining accident. The strike by members of the National Union of Mining and Metallurgical Workers of Mexico (SNTMMRM) resulted from both labor union issues and political causes. The explosion and cave in at the Pasta de Conchos mine in San Juan de Las Sabinas,...

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER Ring smuggling illegals from South Asia halted More than 50 Indians, Pakistanis smuggled Thursday, April 13, 2006 By PAUL SHUKOVSKY P-I REPORTER BLAINE -- U.S. and Canadian authorities Wednesday announced they have broken up a human-smuggling syndicate accused of moving more than 50 undocumented immigrants from India and Pakistan into the United States. The smugglers used Seattle as a way station, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Roya...

I wrote a paper on this in 2004 right before the presidential elections. Here are excerpts about the state of our national health care then. I think many of these stats have gotten worse. According to a study by the National Academy of Sciences 44 million Americans or 16% do not have health insurance and many more are underinsured. More ominously in another study it was found that 18,000 unnecessary deaths occur each year because of lack of health insurance. Out of 225 nations, according to t...

This is the medical plan or extension and improvement on Medicare that should be extended to all Americans. It will take a strong grass roots movement to accomplish this as the for profit health care industry fights this proposal with the ferocity of a jihad. Their operatives are everywhere spreading disinformation anytime something like this has a chance of being debated in Congress. I recommend that considering the illigitmate government in Washington these days that we try to do this more l...

Considering that many here seem to be focusing on the illegality of the undocumented workers, I went googling with the help of a legal eagle Duer to find out what legal obligations the employer has and what he would be fined for not complying with the law. Here it is: (Link) Second, the employment eligibility of each worker will have to be verified by the employer, using an INS-specified form, the I-9. Where the JTPA program serves as the employer, as is the case for many summer youth an...

Third of homeless in San Luis Obispo County are under 21 By Nathan Welton A third of San Luis Obispo County's 2,400 homeless people are under age 21, and more than a fifth aren't yet out of junior high school. Those are some preliminary results of a unique project conducted last fall in which dozens of volunteers counted people living in encampments, campers and shelters countywide. More data will surface next month, and the numbers are released as funding shortfalls for homeless services th...

of the United States.” So spoke historian, Anna Louise Strong then a "progressive" reporter for the union-owned Seattle daily, “The Union Record”, about the Seattle General Strike of 1919 in a pamphlet she wrote to document it shortly after it was over. The History Committee of The General Strike Committee originally published in March of 1919. A movement had started in the Seattle shipyards among the craft workers because of a discrepancy in wages that happened during World War I. The worker...

This is a short history of the Bush regime and the lies institutionalized by the right wing and President George W. Bush and his Vice President Dick Cheney since they took office. It’s all been said before, but it is time to put it all in one place. It’s time to speak the truth in blunt and simple terms. Bush/Cheney did not win the presidency and vice presidency of the United States of America in 2000. A legitimate recount was stopped by their operatives who broke the law and got the Supreme Cou...