Naomi Klein described, in her breakthrough book Shock Doctrine, how a nation is attacked, shocked and torn apart, destroying the middle class. It looks like the GM sale of Hummer to a wealthy Chinese investor, probably with the help of Morgan Stanley, is an example of how it's happening in...

Sometimes it's not wisdom of the crowds, it's madness of the crowds. What happens when a top-down organization which has exploited the grassroots finds that the grassroots won't take it any more and starts to bite back, to take control?

For years, the GOP was a totally top-down organization. It...

I'm a yard sale fan. So, I noticed when a big plot of land was covered with tarpaulins covered with yard sale stuff.







Then I saw it.

Crossposted from OpEdNews.com

Every change in communications medium causes big changes in culture, since cuneiform, then writing were introduced. Email was a culture changer in the 90's. Now, email is being upstaged by social media. The Wall Street Journal reports, in an article,

Here are 50+ tweets: for it, against it, funny, pathetic, many with links to articles.

Click here to see the tweetstream of comments on Obama's Nobel win, or, to see tweets from people who couldn't even spell Nobel, click here. Feel free to add your take on...

On Monday, October 5, over 60 peace activist, anti Afghan war protesters were arrested in front of the White House. It seems like a good time to publish this interview I did on my Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show a few weeks ago with Paul Hetznecker, who defends...

Newspapers are dying. Let them. There may have been people who wanted to rescue the buggy whip industry. But they were misguided. It was transportation they really cared about. We need to initiate dynamic, bottom-up approaches to support the ailing field of Journalism, not newspapers.

The writing is on the...

Crossposted from futurehealth.org

On Saturday, OpEdNews.com reporter Cheryl Biren was arrested along with six protesters by Philadelphia police while taking photos of arrests of protesters against the Army Experience Center (AEC). She was rough-handled by an arresting officer, held in two different jails for a total of 14 hours, released onto the mean...

Crossposted and updated from an article on OpEdNews.com

Use Hashtags For Greater Twitter Success

Here's a Twitter tip:

You can easily use hashtags to reach many more people and build your follower base faster.

Say you've just started with Twitter. You have under 1000, even under 50 followers....

Today, after weeks at the number one spot on Amazon's non-fiction politics book list, Glenn Beck's Common Sense has been bumped by a new arrival, Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union, by first time author and progressive activist David Swanson.

Beck, one of...

crossposted from OpEdNews.com

It had been months, since November, or maybe even longer, since I characterized the Dems as spineless. I was giving Obama and the dems a chance, wishing and hoping and thinking and praying.

The Burt...

Will Spiderman Become a Teabagger? Will Loss Of Super-Hero Diversity Hurt Our Culture?


flickr image FAKE SPIDERMAN by David Hepworth;

Will Wolverine become the Darth Vader, Cheney-Style, of comicbook-dom?

The Walt Disney Company, which, through it's network, ABC, has channeled...

Right wing health reform opponents would have you believe that Obama's health plan or single payer health care will bring rationing to health care. They suggest that the big, bad Obama plan and the nasty Democrats want to institute health care rationing that will kill granny.

The truth is health...

Crossposted at www.OpEdNews.com

It's an unprecedented outrage. There are scores of attorneys -- partisan ones -- engaging in serial prosecutorial misconduct, as in the cases of Gov. Don Siegelman and Cyril Wecht, and these Bush-appointees are still on the job, doing damage to the U.S, to justice and innocent...

Crossposted from OpEdNews.com

On Sunday, PA senator Arlen Specter and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius spoke at a town hall held at Philadelphia's Constitution Center.

It was not pretty. About 400 people showed up. About 70-100 of them were teabaggers --...

Crossposted from OpEdNews.com

"Some Scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
Frank Zappa

I don't think the Gates arrest...

When docs prescribe a placebo, they expect the gullible patient to believe it will work and that the symptoms will go away, especially if the symptoms have been psychologically caused or exacerbated. The problem is, Americans are struggling, going bankrupt, even dying because of our failed health care (really illness...

Interview with Whistleblower Advocate Tom Devine

Crossposted from OpEdNews.com

Transcript of a July 8th Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio (WNJC 1360 AM) interview with Whistleblower advocate Tom Devine, discussing the unhappy situation whistleblowers are now in, thanks to a decision by a Bush appointee holdover...