Reality Check continued

The 16th Amendment was never legally ratified in 1913. The government lied when it announced that it had been ratified. In the first year of collection, 1914, the top rate was 7%. Of those few people who paid income taxes, most of them paid 1%.... keep reading

The scientific case for a worldwide epidemic is the case for building up your immune system now. Epidemiologists tell us that such an epidemic will hit. The question is only when. Now is the time to begin evasive steps.... keep reading

You had better find a career in which you have an advantage. If you face the Chinese challenge, then you also face the Indian challenge. An army of highly trained, low-salary workers is now marching toward you.... keep reading

The defeat of the Taliban opened the floodgates of narcotics out of Afghanistan. The Taliban had slowed this flow. This fact is simply never mentioned by the Administration.... keep reading

War is not the basis of prosperity. It undermines prosperity. It makes the state larger. It shifts resources away from consumer goods to weaponry. The Iraq war in 2003 was clearly a sinkhole. But few analysts saw this.... keep reading

It was clear to me as the invasion began that Republicans would never again be able to campaign on a platform of balanced budgets. The era of endless deficits became irreversible.... keep reading

It should have been obvious that the invasion of Iraq would create concerns over the flow of oil. It would give terrorists an easy target: the pipelines. But the neo-cons could not see this. They conveniently forget today (Nov. 2005).... keep reading

George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1948), described a world in which strategic alliances shifted over and over. This has surely been the case in the U.S.-Middle East alliances.... keep reading

The blindness of the neo-cons to the obvious remains as complete as it was in March, 2003. They did not see that the pipelines could not be defended. They did not understand the ancient sin of envy.... keep reading

Here is the story of the origins of the New World Order. Not many Americans know this story. Of those few who do, not many recognize that the NWO is now shipwrecked. The Western alliance will never be the same again.... keep reading

The Iraq war would be no cakewalk, I predicted before we invaded. Saddam did not have weapons of mass destruction, I predicted. The war would cost far more than the officioal estimate of $60 billion, I predicted. But what did I know?... keep reading

This sort of thing was foreseen clearly by George Orwell in his book, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1948). Since this happened in 1983, I would call his book on target.... keep reading