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One of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority. ~ Hitchens

The Big Banks are Terrified – We are Winning

Posted on 11.06.2011 by AlwaysQuestionAuthority

We have had enough – and we’re not going to take it any more. It is up to us to go back on November 7th, and November 8th and every day after that. Already, Move Your Money on Nov 5th, has morphed into Move Your Money Mondays. It is a terrifying prospect for the banks. They will tell you that all of this doesn’t matter. After all, they don’t need no stinking customers. They are sitting on an unprecedented mountain of cash. They don’t make money off deposits. This can’t hurt them, this won’t hurt them. They are lying:
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Why I Do Not Support the Troops!

Posted on 11.05.2011 by AlwaysQuestionAuthority

This is the first time since I read Major General Smedley Darlington Butler’s (July 30, 1881 – June 21, 1940) classic, must read, War is a Racket, that anyone has expressed my sentiments so eloquently!

Who Killed Che? How the CIA Got Away with Murder

Posted on 11.05.2011 by AlwaysQuestionAuthority

Publication November 15th 2011
• 160 pages with b/w illustration throughout paperback ISBN 978-1-935928-49-2
• ebook ISBN 978-1-935928-50-8

http://www.orbooks.com/our-books/who-killed-che/

Saving capitalism? The price could be democracy

Posted on 11.05.2011 by AlwaysQuestionAuthority

Right now everyone seems to be getting terribly excited about saving capitalism. Which is fair enough, in the face of global meltdown. However, it seems to me that the price of saving capitalism is increasingly likely to be “democracy”. Which would be a shame as I’m a big fan of democracy. On the whole, I think it’s a good thing.
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PZ Myers Talks About the 03.24.2012 Reason Rally

Posted on 11.05.2011 by AlwaysQuestionAuthority

Visit The Reason Rally Website here . . .

Governance by the Party of God

Posted on 11.05.2011 by AlwaysQuestionAuthority

Senate Democratic Leader Gretchen Whitmer responded to Republicans gutting an anti-bullying bill by inserting language that specifically allows bullying to occur based on religious or moral reasons.

Posted on 11.04.2011 by AlwaysQuestionAuthority

Papantonio: Tea Party OK With Sexual Harassment

Posted on 11.04.2011 by AlwaysQuestionAuthority

What’s God got to do with it?

Posted on 11.04.2011 by AlwaysQuestionAuthority

He may be invoked in the national motto, but God has nothing to do with why Americans are free and secure. . . The House voted 396-9 this week to reaffirm as the national motto the phrase “In God We Trust” and encouraged its pronouncement on public buildings and continued printing on the coin of the realm. The motto was made official in 1956 during the height of Cold War hysteria over godless communism and — in the words of Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper in “Dr. Strangelove” — “Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.”
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Atheists Do Not Need to Have All the Answers

Posted on 11.04.2011 by AlwaysQuestionAuthority

. . . [H]ow ridiculous it is to assume that god must be the default answer for every unknown. I used to wonder why so many Christians seemed unable to understand this. I suspect now that these Christians did not want to think because doing so might jeopardize their faith.
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