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Outrage in San Francisco: City Gives Residents ‘...
By Escape The Illusion on March 6, 2010 | No Comments
The city’s actions are a wake-up call that the entire nation regularly consumes foods grown on fields fertilized with sludge. When San Francisco, one of the greenest cities in America, offered its residents free compost, many were excited to take it. After all, purchasing enough compost for ev... -
A Calamity in the MakingBy Escape The Illusion on February 23, 2010 | No Comments
A major reason for enacting health reform is the fate of elderly and disabled patients—especially the indigent—in nursing homes and assisted-care facilities. Except for the visits of relatives and thoughtful friends, they’re out of sight, out of mind, all but ignored by politicians and media t... -
Joe Stack’s LetterBy Escape The Illusion on February 23, 2010 | 2 Comments
Here at ETI we do not know if this is Joe Satck’s actual letter, but we thought we should share what we found. If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to happen?” The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time. The wri... -
Texas Suicide Flyer Had Real Populist GrievancesBy Escape The Illusion on February 21, 2010 | No Comments
Joseph Stack’s suicide screed chafes and exposes a raw wound this country does not know what to do with. Liberals are dismissing Joseph Stack’s rant as a brutal anti-government battle cry — “Tea Party on steroids.” Conservatives are dismissing it as the petulant whine ... -
Totally Corrupt TV: Corporate Lobbyists Pose as Disin...By Escape The Illusion on February 19, 2010 | 1 Comment
Covert corporate influence-peddling is taking over cable news. President Obama spent most of December 4 touring Allentown, Pennsylvania, meeting with local workers and discussing the economic crisis. A few hours later, the state’s former governor, Tom Ridge, was on MSNBC’s Hardball With... -
Profiting From Immigration InjusticeBy Escape The Illusion on February 16, 2010 | 2 Comments
When an architect named Norman Pfeiffer designed the Evo DeConcini Federal Courthouse in Tucson, Ariz., he claimed to have been inspired by its natural surroundings. “From afar,” Pfeiffer told Architecture Week, “the desert tells little of what it knows. … But upon closer scrutiny it rev... -
Big Banks Are Feeding Like Parasites on the Govt.R...By Escape The Illusion on February 4, 2010 | No Comments
Big bank CEOs like to trumpet free-market ideology, but they depend on the government for survival in good times and bad. Wall Street bankers, along with the rest of the players in the financial industry, like to think of themselves as swashbuckling capitalists. They battle cutthroat competition wit... -
US Corporations, Private Mercenaries and the IMF Rush...By Escape The Illusion on January 20, 2010 | No Comments
Source: Alternet.org In the midst of a colossal human disaster, Washington is promoting unpopular economic policies and extending military and economic control over the Haitian people. US corporations, private mercenaries, Washington and the International Monetary Fund are using the crisis in Haiti ... -
A new approach to ChinaBy Escape The Illusion on January 12, 2010 | No Comments
Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. Howev... -
Unemployment: The 2010 Time BombBy Escape The Illusion on January 11, 2010 | No Comments
New figures show jobs were lost in December at ten times the expected rate. American employers eliminated 4.2 million jobs in 2009 and sent unemployment soaring into double digits for the first time in more than a quarter century. Since the fall of last year, the official jobless rate has been over...
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