Where have all the Dollars Gone

Study this chart:



This comes from The Grey Matter Blog.

Q: How can our politicians allow this to exist?
A: Those who donate money to politicians call the agenda, not voters. If fact, attempts to redistribute wealth, (ie change things from the actual current situation) are not even allowed to be discussed openly by our politicians, unless the goal is to provide more wealth for the richest in our society, such as has occurred during the last 30 years.

Where the money is being held

This article points out the extent to which corporations are holding onto the cash that governments wanted spent on job creation, mortgage relief, small business loans, etc., etc.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/07/18/271513/29-companies-more-cash-than-treasury/

It's amazing that this situation isn't more widely talked about. People don't seem to realize that the cash has been vacuumed out of the economy straight into corporate bank accounts and it is not being spent on things of benefit to the economy which continues to be sucked dry of cash.

On another note, the price of gold reached a new record yesterday of over $1600 per ounce. Maybe people are starting to realize that government money is not as valuable as it once was.

Time to feature the dudes!

D'Arcy just looks too worried about things sometimes -


Can you believe that Keegan was considered 'unhomeable' by the first vet who saw him after Anna rescued him from his feral colony? Look at this wild guy -

PaiKwa is very attentive to certain generous people at the dinner table -

Wylie, constantly on the alert for something to investigate -

Ka-Bloom!!

Anna's garden responded to the sun and rain and is now officially struttin' its stuff!


The walkgarden is pushing its way up around the flagstones.


And here's the butterfly bait in full bloom ...


Now we wait for butterflies.

Banks & Governments & Wars linked

Here's a very interesting theory put forward by Justin Raimondo of Antiwar.com that seems to be vindicated by the behaviour of our world in the last ten years:

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/07/14/the-banksters-and-american-foreign-policy/

I find the thesis compelling because it rang true as I read through the article. It certainly means I have to re-evaluate some of the long-standing credos that have been drummed into our little heads since childhood.

Just who are the good guys nowadays?

I wonder what the price of gold is today ...

Just as I was descending into chronic cynicism ...

... along comes this article in the Guardian (UK) to reaffirm the existence of people who give a damn about civilization and basic morality. It deals with the behaviour of the American government and its lapdogs (read Canada) over the last ten years, and actually recommends trials for some political leaders, for a change. Read the details:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/12/george-w-bush-torture

We can only hope.

Too bad Spain is in such deep financial doo-doo that it has to curry favour with US banks and the IMF. They were the one country to go after and secure a conviction against Pinochet for torture etc., after all.

A soldier to admire

In this article in Glenn Greenwald's blog, we get a welcome glimpse into the mindset of one of the soldiers who participated in the infamous "Collateral Murder" video that was released by Wikileaks. It is instructive to compare the soldier's comments with the 'official' reactions to this video's release.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/07/11/manning/index.html

Once again, governments and established media are revealed as propaganda sources, whose prime efforts are devoted to keeping the public ignorant of the actions of those with the power to disperse taxpayers' dollars.