Sunday April 29th, 2012

Every once and awhile I'll be listening to a podcast with one or the other writers specializing on the subject of Peak Oil or collapse and the subject of timetables will come up. When will the collapse finally be here, the callers ask insistently, almost pleadingly, so that they can finally justify their investments in freeze ( Read more... )

by Gaius Publius on 5/04/2011 12:48:00 PM



Fascinating. Rachel Maddow has a "Who was Osama?" report that's eye-opening. Not that any of this is new, but little of it is reported in this, the Tom Clancy phase of the bin Laden termination story.

Put differently, we want to be watching an action movie, so that's what we're fed. But ( Read more... )

From BBCNews6 January 2011 ( Read more... )

( In large numbers, and with few rules, retiring generals are taking lucrative defense-firm jobs )

Boehner suggests raising Social Security age
In an interview Tuesday with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, House Minority Leader John Boehner (Ohio) suggested raising the retirement age for Social Security to pay for Afghanistan.
Ensuring there's enough money to pay for the war will require reforming the country's entitlement system, Boehner said. He ( Read more... )

~Given the dust up regarding military spending etc in the comment threads of our distinguished Mods post A little wisdom from Dean Baker, [yes, that was a suck up so stfu] I though it might prove salutary to examine the paradigm of American military spending, which I believe Germain to this community considering the rather significant portion of ( Read more... )