161 results for author: Dave Svetlik

THE ROGUE NATION

1950 The United States foments and launches the Korean War. Contrary to the popularly held falsehoods that America was in Korea to protect freedom and democracy, the war was to perpetuate already existing U.S corporate resource exploitation in the Philippines and the Korean Peninsula. U.S. political and business leaders hoped for a share of Korean gold and tungsten. Americans Herbert Hoover, William Randolph Hearst, J. Sloat Fassett, Ogden Mills, J.B. Haggin, John Staggers and beer baron Adolph Coors had achieved controlling interests in Korean gold mines where the best prospects lay north of the thirty-eighth parallel (the division between ...

WEALTH AND MONEY PART XXXII A HUGE WIN FOR PUBLIC BANKING

Santa Fe, New Mexico is a city of roughly 70,000 people. They have just won a major victory in overcoming the parasitic bonds of the Wall Street banking cartel. Rather than continuing to live in endless debt servitude to wealthy predators, the people of Santa Fe are choosing to invest in themselves. City wealth and capital will be placed in a community owned bank and interest on investments will be returned to the people. Millions of dollars in public funds that would have gone to Wall Street will now be used to improve life for the citizens of Santa Fe. The Wausau metropolitan area has about 70,000 people. Marathon County has a population of about ...

THE SKY IS GREEN AND GRASS IS BLUE

THE SKY IS GREEN AND GRASS IS BLUE This is the now famous photograph of the “Napalm Girl” and of the Vietnamese children fleeing because aircraft from the United States of America were dumping the chemical weapon napalm on their village. Napalm was designed to stick to the human body and burn off the skin. This is a photograph of a Vietnamese woman holding a child who has been burned by napalm. The dropping of napalm and Agent Orange by the United States over Vietnam is likely the greatest use of chemical weapons in world history. Thousands of Vietnamese villagers died from the effects. Yes but, it is alleged that Syria used ...

WEALTH AND MONEY PART XXXI THE FRIGHTENING IGNORANCE OF THE “BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT”

A dangerous assault on the United States of America is now well underway. It hardly makes the news. Under the guidance of the billionaire Koch brothers funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and other corporately supported think tanks, 29 states have passed a resolution calling for a Constitutional Convention for the purpose of passing a federal “Balanced Budget Amendment.” Only 5 more states are needed to reach the 34 required to force the holding of this historically unprecedented event (the original Constitutional Convention was held in 1787). Led by Republican State Senator Chris Kapenga, a long-time ALEC member, Wisconsin may ...

WEALTH AND MONEY Part XXX: THE CONQUERING (AND RESCUE) OF AMERICA

The Wall Street Bank System Washington Public Banking Coalition Public Banking Institute One of the first actions President Donald Trump and his newly appointed cabinet members ( several of whom are former employees of Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs) plan to take in “Making America Great Again” is to substantially increase our already destructively bloated military budget. It will do nothing to make us more safe. While our corporately directed armed forces are manipulated to pursue pre-emptive, imperialist wars abroad, we as American citizens are being impoverished and enslaved from within. As the above graphics display, our true enemy ...

SHALL NOT PERISH FROM THE EARTH

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ...

WEALTH AND MONEY PART XXIX: PUBLIC BANKING AND INFRASTRUCTURE

The last edition of Wealth and Money discussed how Public – Private investment schemes were likely to be used under the Trump administration to finance the rebuilding of America’s infrastructure. Due to 40 years of tax cuts for the rich and corporations, along with deregulation of the financial industry, our federal and state governments have been defunded. This massive transferal of the nation’s claim to wealth, money, to the richest .01 percent has left government in debt and opened the door for complete predation on the people of America. Rather than paying for infrastructure with the taxes we traditionally would have collected from the ...

WEALTH AND MONEY PART XXVIII: THE WRONG WAY TO FINANCE INFRASTRUCTURE

On June 29th, 1956 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 and the U.S. interstate highway system, the greatest public works project in world history, was born. This occurred only a few short years after America had invested millions upon millions of dollars in World War II and government debt was at an all-time high. But dollars and wealth are not the same thing. Following the war America was the unquestioned industrial leader of the world. We had unprecedented capacity to produce true wealth – the products and services of an abundant life - and America flourished. Life wasn’t perfect. Racism was high and ...

A POLITICIAN TO KEEP ME SAFE

I want a politician who will keep me safe: - You are 35,079 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a terrorist attack I want my politicians to invest my tax dollars into publicly funded medical research on how to reduce heart disease and other common health problems. The funds for this can be taken from the rogue US military and Dept. of Homeland “Security.” I want my politicians to keep me safe. - You are 33,842 times more likely to die from cancer than from a terrorist attack “The United States health care system is the most expensive in the world, but this report and prior editions consistently show the U.S. ...

THE BIPARTISAN DISMANTLING OF AMERICA

The process began in earnest with the words of President Ronald Reagan. His catchy - and destructively false - soundbite, “government is not the solution to the problem, government is the problem,” initiated the dismantling of all we cherish as Americans. A catchy soundbite denigrated the sacred words of our Declaration of Independence stating that to secure the rights of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness, “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” It denigrated all those who fought and died in the American Revolution to protect those sacred words. A catchy soundbite mocked ...