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2009, the new administration.
Change? What Change?
Click here to discover the difference between
a loan shark and Visa, Master Card, and American Express....
Optimistic about the new broom cleaning out the mess from the previous 8
years, we were planning to take a sabbatical. We're archiving the past to
TheDarkAges.html.
But... Geithner
Oh well. There's still hypocrisy in Congress.
Sigh.
The Final Bush Legacy? TVA Sludge Spill.
What Economy?
Unsung villains who have changed history.
Great American Gas Out May 15, 2007!
Once again, the great government/petroleum complex has ignored our rage.
Paradoxes and brilliant ideas
Like a Good Neighbor, State Farm
wasn't there for Hurricane Katrina
The Democrat's Iraq Plan
Bumper Sticker: "Let Allah Sort 'em Out"
Congressman Foley, not responsible.
Alcohol made him do it.
Data Mining Schemes. Beware of
this free gift scam.
Hezbollah, Israel stepped in it
this time.
"Illegal" Aliens: our
latest hypocrisy
Ann Coulter: is this the best
spokesperson the radical right can offer?
Dumb & Dumber: amateurs working
telephone scams and identity theft.
Maryland Comptroller Claims That Internet Sales Are Illegal:
Attempts to collect cigarette sales taxes
from consumers.
More Maryland state government incompetence: Failure to control
public utility monopolies' rate gouging. Constellation Energy Group 72% rate
increase.
Mandatory Medical Insurance:
The government's latest intrusion on personal choice.
The solution to credit card debt.
How Dumb Are Republicans? (this may
become a special section of HT as time and stupidity marches on.)
History of the World for Dummies:
Unrevised, unabridged. No worrisome dates to memorize,
no tiresome footnotes, no papers to write, no class attendance required. Unlike
most current history books, this is totally unplagerized and is not restricted
by Government guidelines on the teaching of history.
The study of economics is included in this series because it is an essential
element in the study of history and current events. Don't worry. Economics is
not that hard to understand. And if you don't understand economic principles,
you'll be easy prey for government or corporate flim flam.
Terrorist Alert!
- Public Reaction
- Civil defense of the '50's reinstated. Duct tape not required. Are you too
young to have heard the Civil Defense answer to a nuclear attack? Here it
is: the infamous "Duck and Cover".
September 11 : Shock,
grief, fear, and patriotism, but already the beginnings of hypocrisy.
Taking advantage of the situation, within hours some gas stations raised
their prices to $5.00 a gallon. Within days, the already failing airlines
whined to the government to bail them out for their losses. Public outrage
brought gas prices back to merely exorbitant, but 6 months later they rose
again for absolutely no excuse.
The Osama Tapes: These audio tapes were retrieved
by courageous HT journalists from a remote palace in Saudi Arabia. Analysts
surmise that, like Richard Nixon, Osama had his conversations recorded for historic
purposes or perhaps for his memoirs.
Political cartoons
Must re-read books: you read them when you were young and
naive. Read them again to really understand the message.
- The Greatest Story Ever SOLD: The Decline and
Fall of Truth, From 9/11 to Katrina: Frank
Rich, Penguin Books, 2006.
Detailed exposure of "Mission Accomplished" and other reality
shows propagated by Federal despotism 2000-2006+.
- Animal Farm: "All animals are
created equal, but some are more equal..."
Toward the end of WWII, George Orwell, whose real name was Eric Blair,
wrote a scathing satire on Stalinist Communism titled Animal Farm.
The book was illustrated with characters resembling Stalin, Trotsky, and
lesser contemporary British political figures. The book was so controversial
that Orwell had difficulty finding a publisher and more difficulty in
getting paid—a common problem for unconventional writers.
The book was eventually released in the United States disguised as a
fairy tale and later Disneyfied.
Stalin is dead now, but totalitarianism isn't, nor is it limited to communism
or socialism or any other "left or liberal ism". It has prevailed through
the ages through the Roman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, the British
Empire and all other subsequent empires.
All men are created equal, but only if they're white, male, and wealthy.
- 1984, George Orwell
- History Repeats: Almost 70 years ago,
Sinclair Lewis (author of Elmer Gantry, Mainstreet, Babbit...) wrote
It Can't Happen Here
(now out of print and available on this web site as an e-book). It was
written in the time of the Great Depression, the fascist threats in Europe
and Asia, and political corruption and general unrest in America. It foretold
of internment camps of "dissident citizens" ignoring habeas corpus,
martial law, disbanding Congress and the courts... Sound familiar? The book
was fiction. If you can't find a copy in your library, it is available here
on CD in Acrobat Reader format.
- Anything by Kafka
- Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carrol:
"...off with their heads...". Wonderland— irrationality and
tyranny. Another fairy tale?
- Candide, Voltaire. Heavy satire
on politics, money, and war. Dukes and kings invading countries, soldiers
bayonetting babies, general raping and looting... but "it's the best
of all possible worlds... If you can't find it in English, learn French.
- The Robber Barons:
Carnegie, Rockefeller, Mellon, Gould, Vanderbilt...
how these capitalists built railroads, the steel industry, oil empires before
government protective regulation and restriction of their financial manipulations.
- Noam Chomsky: Exercise
your brain reading MIT professor and political dissident. Check your local
library or google.com for Chomsky's writings.
- Sleeping with the Devil:
Ex-CIA officer Robert Baer. How Washington
politics compromised the CIA's efforts to fight global terrorism.
- Imperial Hubris:
Anonymous (still-employed CIA Middle East analyst) "90% of all intelligence
is unclassified". Reading the newpapers and magazines for the last 20
years (and before) told us what was coming if the politicians had paid attention.
We were warned in plenty of time before 9/11.
- Free Lunch: David
Cay Johnston, 2007. Big corporate almost legal scams that rip us all off.
From eminent domain to title insurance and stuff you rarely hear about or
understand.
Commentary
Capitalism Hoax Does Enron really shock you? It
is merely the latest in the history of American scams.
- FDA (Food and Drug Administration) Hoax: FDA is a Federal Government department
whose mission is to protect us from dangerous prescriptions. Right? Wrong.
FDA research is funded by the pharmaceutical companies.
- $46 MILLION transferred to YOUR bank account.
- Virus Alert Hoax The ultimate virus: get the
recipient to destroy their own system.
- The Microsoft Hoax
- The Great Pharmaceutical Conspiracy Our own government
is conspiring with the greedy pharmaceutical giants to sky-rocket prescription
prices.
- Credit theft scam: it may kill on-line commerce
- Elderly—Easy targets
Computer and Arcade Game Reviews:
- Gang Warfare, hot new electronic game with social
significance.
- Christian games: the answer to violent
computer games like Grand Theft Auto
Book, TV and Movie Reviews
There are certain popular tv shows that are not yet reviewed here. Talk shows,
court tv, shows directed to teens, shows about young adults trying to "find
themselves".
Miscellaneous
Con Games on the Internet
Late-breaking News
Straight News
Because some of the news in the papers is funny just by itself, we are saved
from having to write about it. Besides, we couldn't possibly be as hypocritical
as "Straight News" ripped from today's newspapers...
- Drug Wars: Glaxo, maker of grossly overpriced
Claritin and other drugs is in a turf war, just like any Columbian drug lord
or street dealer. Except Glaxo's weapon for beating down their competition
is their clout with the U.S. Government. Their competition? Canadian pharmacies.
- Compare US prescription drug prices with Canadian
pharmacy brand name prices.
- Holocaust Museum Director fired for refusing to greet Arafat...Washington
Post
- Who Cares? Starr-Crossed
- Minor Government Conspiracy
Features - Ranting, Raving, Venting... and all that fun stuff
Ancient Tales
Archives: Old Hypocrisy Today Articles
Copyright
On the internet? Don't be ridiculous. Information on the internet has
been, by tradition, free, as should all information be. Can you copyright
an idea? Can you enforce a copyright? Are there guidelines for quality or
content of communication? Who judges quality or content? The reader, of course.
If the reader doesn't like the material, (s)he is free to not continue to
read it. No need for legislation or blue ribbons.
And listen to this.
Apologies for the mouse. Sometimes we can't resist cute stuff. It's a curse
we must live with.
Training Manual for the Presidency
