excellent link from hugh:

http://www.gonavy.jp/CVLocation.html

“The Malthusian component of our economy is our banking system, more specifically ‘debt based leveraged banking’ misnamed by the Banks as ‘fractional reserve banking’.

Without geometric expansion of debt the whole system crashes as new money must be forever increased to pay the interest on the ever larger existing debt. It is leveraged debt on the way up and leveraged money destruction on the way down. A debt spiral up and down.

To monetize this ever increasing debt economies must forever expand using more and more natural resources. This is why growth is considered imperative, because our financial system collapses without ever more growth.

Is there a way out? Yes … Public Central Banks that create their own money and act as a lender at interrest to banks whose loans must be made on a one to one basis with private deposits and borrowed deposits from the Public Bank.This takes the leverage out of the system and empowers private deposits to capture a real rate of return. Frugality is rewarded instead of taxed by inflation. The Public Central Bank garners income from its lendings to Private Banks while shedding interest paid to the Federal Reserve. And really, why shouldn’t the public garnner income from its money, and indeed, Why the Hell should it pay interest on its’ own money?”

In supermax prisons, 23 hours a day of solitary confinement is the norm. How did our prison system become so cruel?

Imagine living in an 8-by-12 prison cell, in solitary confinement, for eight years straight. Your entire world consists of a dank, cinder block room with a narrow window only three inches high, opening up to an outdoor cement cage, cynically dubbed, “the yard.” If you’re lucky, you spend one hour, five days a week in that outdoor cage, where you gaze up through a wire mesh roof and hope for a glimpse of the sun. If you talk back to the guards or act out in any way, you might only venture outside one precious hour per week.

You go eight years without shaking a hand or experiencing any physical human contact. The prison guards bark orders and touch you only while wearing leather gloves, and then it’s only to put you in full cuffs and shackles before escorting you to the cold showers, where they watch your every move.

You cannot make phone calls to your friends or family and must “earn” two visits per month, which inevitably take place through a Plexiglass wall. You are kept in full shackles the entire time you visit with your wife and children, and have to strain to hear their voices through speakers that record your every word…[snip]

Once exclusively employed as a short-term punishment for particularly violent jailhouse infractions, today, 44 states hold “supermax” facilities, or “control units,” designed specifically to hold large numbers of inmates in long-term solitary confinement. A concept that spread like wildfire in the 1990s, today an estimated 20,000 prisoners live in these modern-day dungeons…[snip]

But to Bush, it is a new “para-dig-me”: a new, improved, ne plus ultra way to fight the twenty-first century’s “greatest threat”. Which is not global warming, or global competition over oil, wheat and water, but a big word Jonah Goldberg can’t stop repeating until he learns what it means: “Islamofascism”.

It is George Bush re-legitimizing what the last century’s politicians dreamt they had overcome – warfare as a political way of life, a way to medieval riches and totalitarian authority. A world of superstition and torture, where the sovereign took a life just because he could. Mr. Bush imagines that he talks to God; does he hear her reply?

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want to mention, yay! pledge weeks are over on pbs!!!!!!

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/…..escription

description of what the show covers is on the site above.

2 part frontline/bush’s war on pbs tonight and tomorrow night. old footage from 40 shows and new footage.

they are streaming shows online, now, too.

have a show about tibet on the main page.