By Tom on 7/18/2010 7:55 AM

The Beachcomber in printing thin pieces on the Council and Credit Union has this critic at its beck and call. Chris Beck should criticize the Council instead of criticizing our civic lack. And the Beachcomber should have delved into the nuts and bolts of that $200,000 instead of just providing an excellent progress report. While noting the good work of the council, Chris neglects mention of what it did not do when K2 went on the market. It did not entertain ideas from the public on how to convert this plant to making things for island use. Not to mention profound disinterest in the Council taking a stand on health care. What’s the essential difference between a credit union and a bank? Knowing that banks don’t lend money, they create it, what’s the capital for? Yeah, yeah, blah, blah, but there is serious ignorance here about money, and it has the nation over a barrel. Fresh breeze needed, please. The Beachcomber has inadvertently beckoned, and I have innocently answered the call.

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By Tom on 7/6/2010 6:12 AM

In case the last two posts read like a Chicken Little act, Last week:

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has a new feature on their website called "Find Insurance Options". You just provide certain information about your family size, your age, your employment situation, your financial situation, whether you have certain disabilities or diseases, whether you now have Medicare or some other health insurance, or how long you have not had health insurance, whether you have been denied insurance, whether you are someone's dependent, a veteran? an American Indian? an Alaskan Native? etc., etc., etc. ... and the site gives you suggestions as to where and how you might find health insurance that might suit your particular needs. The head of HHS, Kathleen Sebelius, tells us "This is an incredibly impressive consumer tool," (Linda Jansen)

US: Felony charges, big fines for reporting within Gulf oil spill zone: ...

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By Tom on 7/2/2010 7:10 AM

There is a limit to hearing of wrongs. Of private prisons operating for profit. Of Homeland Security breaking up Latino families. Of driving blacks out of New Orleans. Of giant firms poisoning the public with bad food and dangerous packaging, endangering coal miners, and contaminating our aquifers. Of bad health care at exorbitant cost. Of collusion of the elite to steal from the rest of us. Of continued funding of the torture school at Ft. Benning, Of supporting criminal takeover of Haiti and Honduras. Of the CIA murdering people. Of police brutalizing dissidents. Of ocean drilling. Of the whole rotten stinking, stupid, meaningless wasting of our precious blue dot. At first there was awakening, then came astonishment at the pervasiveness, and finally there has come realization that the root cause is a public so hooked on technology it will not depose the criminals who control it. Now the wrongs hit me like Chinese water torture, wrong, wrong, wrong, because there is no more hope. Only one event could win some...

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