Turbulent Times | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

Turbulent Times | Economics and Politics | Before It's News: The turbulent times of today require an understanding of how societies rebound from all the disingenuous policies that leaders of nations impose upon their nations. The falsehood that the US is the richest nation in the world is just that. Sure, we have some of the wealthiest individuals sheltering in...

The Dire State | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

The Dire State | Economics and Politics | Before It's News: The US today has become the antistes of what our nation was supposed to be. We have lost sight of our founding principles where life, liberty, and the ability to not only pursue but actually achieve relative happiness has ceased to exist for millions. Never before in our brief history...

The Wheels of Time | Opinion | Before It's News

The Wheels of Time | Opinion | Before It's News: In the latter stages of my life the wheels of time turn just a bit faster now. As seasons come and go I have noticed so many things that I could have done a little differently. And, yet through all the years where I have known ecstasy, joy and jubilation...

The Pitfalls of Leaders | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

The Pitfalls of Leaders | Economics and Politics | Before It's News: In the waning days of 2024, the time for reflection is at hand. No longer are we in control of our own destiny. The ever-encroaching dictatorial heavy hand of government intrusion has commandeered our very own existence. The reshaping of our society has extended far beyond what we thought our...

The Perils of 2025 and Beyond | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

The Perils of 2025 and Beyond | Economics and Politics | Before It's News: "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens reminds many of the striking resemblance between the greed of one man and his transformation toward benevolence. A fitting tale to the times of today specifically in light of this past Presidential election. One would doubt that Trump would be visited by the ghost...

The Days of Reckoning | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

The Days of Reckoning | Economics and Politics | Before It's News: It is becoming quite clear that in the wake of this past election a tsunami of economic misfortunes will wash away all of the economic gains that were painfully made during the Biden years. Following this tsunami will be repercussions that will leave many in disbelief and dismay. It is...

Be Careful For What You Wish For | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

Be Careful For What You Wish For | Economics and Politics | Before It's News: It is a sad commentary for a nation that for over 200 years was a beacon of hope for millions to fall prey to a notorious conman by the outcome of November 5th Presidential election. For this outcome was decades in the making. Putting the blame entirely on the DNC...

The Four Sins of Man | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

The Four Sins of Man | Economics and Politics | Before It's News: Through-out the ages mankind has been plagued with the realities of their own existence. The inherent instinct of survival has dominated of us all. Many of our actions are driven by what is known as the four sins of man; Greed, Lust, Hate and Ignorance. Ever since Adam and Eve...

The Greek Tragedy of Today | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

The Greek Tragedy of Today | Economics and Politics | Before It's News: Life today is playing out like a Greek tragedy. No sooner than our lives are given a ray of hope it is quickly diminished by whatever life throughs at us. The secret to living today is resilience.  One can relate to that old Frank Sinatra song "That's Life" In true...

Electric Power | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

Electric Power | Economics and Politics | Before It's News:   Millions the world over are dependent on electric power for daily living. When there is a disruption to the flow of electricity it causes undue hardship and in many cases loss of life. Our dependency on electricity has evolved much since Tesla and Edison. Today though many are being...

The Economic Impact of Universal Income | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

The Economic Impact of Universal Income | Economics and Politics | Before It's News: In an age of technological marvels as we are seeing today has generated enormous wealth. But, with this wealth you would think that society as a whole would be the benefactors of all those technological advances. Today, the wealth disparity gap has only gotten wider. The rich continue to reap...

The Fate of Man | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

The Fate of Man | Economics and Politics | Before It's News:   Biologists define life forms [ Human beings included] as self-organizing systems regulating internal environments to maintain their organizational state, the metabolism serves to provide the energy, and the reproduction allows all to continue the evolution process. Ever since the dawn of civilization mankind has been searching for the answers...

America, The Land of Lost Opportunity | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

America, The Land of Lost Opportunity | Economics and Politics | Before It's News: The fundamental building blocks of America since its founding have always been Liberty, Justice, Morality and Education. The failure to uphold these four pillars of our Democratic Republic have consecrated not only our heritage but the future of our nation. There has been an infestation in the halls of government for...

The Economy A Presidential Matter | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

The Economy A Presidential Matter | Economics and Politics | Before It's News: "It's the economy stupid" and "read my lips, no new taxes" were the railing cries that highlighted the 1992 Presidential election. The similarity of those catch phrases echos today. In our history as a democratic republic Washington, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, FDR, and JFK whose stewardship launched America into greatness corresponds...

Where Is A Teddy Roosevelt Today? | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

Where Is A Teddy Roosevelt Today? | Economics and Politics | Before It's News: It has come to pass thru manipulation, corporate lobbyists, our for-profit legislators, and the main-stream media have all been complicit in orchestrating the oligarchy ruling class we have in America today. They have been for the past 50 years instrumental in laying waste to the American dream for millions of...

The Games | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

The Games | Economics and Politics | Before It's News: The Olympics is a venue for sportsmanship, comradery, and a fellowship of bonding between athletes from nations all over the world. What has taken place in Paris is in sharp contrast to the harsh realities in Ukraine and the Mid-East.  The untold carnage of human suffering has overshadowed what the...

The Consequence of Inaction | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

The Consequence of Inaction | Economics and Politics | Before It's News: The complexities of today have been manifested by the polarization of partisan politics. Today the political discourse between our dominate two party system has shown that this nation has become the epitome of dysfunction. When Lincoln stated "A nation divided against itself cannot stand" is the harsh reality facing the...

Black Energy | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

Black Energy | Economics and Politics | Before It's News: In an age of technological marvels there have been always those that will use the technology developed to achieve diabolical and selfish ends. The obsession for more power, control, and wealth has been the greatest instigator of all the wars and acts of aggression all through-out history. As with all the good that...

When Tomorrow Never Comes | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

When Tomorrow Never Comes | Economics and Politics | Before It's News: An age of uncertainty where in a blink of an eye many of us could be thrust into situations that we really have no control over has taken over societies the world over. Where entrenched rulers defy logic and pursue agendas far removed from the sanctity of life have for years thrust mankind...

Willful Intent | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

Willful Intent | Economics and Politics | Before It's News: As recently on July 4th we all woke up to see what condition this nations condition was in. With project 2025 looming to become the most radical doctrine, a manifesto of a far-right dictatorial agenda for the United States has to be a wakeup call for all to actually see...

Above The Law | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

Above The Law | Economics and Politics | Before It's News: The makings of our Democratic Republic have been called into question time and time again. The Supreme Court of the US in many instances has had generational consequences over the past 100 years. What is shocking is how this branch of government can ignore the rule of law with their...

Global Peace A Reality | Global Unrest | Before It's News

Global Peace A Reality | Global Unrest | Before It's News:   "War the most malignant scourge of mankind." General Douglas MacArthur. He was and still is right. Ever since the dawn of man countless wars, armed aggressions, and atrocities against fellow man have plagued civilizations. History is full of countless battles that determine outcomes of countries destinies. The Battle of...

Where Are Yesterday's Heros? | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

Where Are Yesterday's Heros? | Economics and Politics | Before It's News: At a time so distant where ordinary men were called upon to do extraordinary things heroes were born. It was at the turn of the 20th century that Theodore Roosevelt rode into the history books. During the First World War Black Jack Perishing and Sergeant York galloped into American consciousness....

Africa The Breadbasket of The world | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

Africa The Breadbasket of The world | Economics and Politics | Before It's News: In all probability Global population will exceed 10 billion by the year 2050. The impact of such an influx growth of the world's population on existing food supplies without first increasing the resources to avail more harvestable edible food crops the world will come face to face with a Global...

The Long Road Back | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

The Long Road Back | Economics and Politics | Before It's News: When someone asked Benjimin Franklin what kind of government have you created? Franklin's reply " A Republic if you can keep it." As poignant as that quote was is still very much on the minds of many some 235 years later. It has been said that America's fall from grace...

student loans: National Economic Reform's: Education Reform

student loans: National Economic Reform's: Education Reform: The American educational experience from the late 1960's through today has been a total disaster. Instead of securing our place in edu...

Paradice Lost | Economy | Before It's News

Paradice Lost | Economy | Before It's News: The pitfalls of our Democratic Republic are many. If we allow what is already a media circus to continue especially with the Trump trial and it's aftermath this nation faces a most unsecure future. Today 5 oligarchs control the media as well as the leading corporate economic structure of our...

The Final Outcome | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

The Final Outcome | Economics and Politics | Before It's News: The pitfalls of our Democratic Republic are many. If we allow what is already a media circus to continue especially with the Trump trial and it's aftermath this nation faces a most unsecure future. Today 5 oligarchs control the media as well as the leading corporate economic structure of our...

Star Quest | Science and Technology | Before It's News

Star Quest | Science and Technology | Before It's News: Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars, let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars in other words, let's reach our true destiny. A take on Frank Sinatra's hit. But, in that movie "Interstellar" points out some very real possibilities that could play...

National Economic Reforms: Education Reform | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

National Economic Reforms: Education Reform | Economics and Politics | Before It's News:   The need is apparent that in order for the United States to compete on the worlds stage our youth must be the recipients of quality education far beyond what has been an educational failure for the past 45 years. To lay blame on the recent pandemic is not the...

The Big Sticks | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

The Big Sticks | Economics and Politics | Before It's News: The history of the world has always been written in blood. Blood spilled through countless acts of aggression, greed and lust. Man's unquenchable thirst for power, control and wealth has once again thrust humanity onto the brink of falling back into the caves of the Neanderthal. As we have entered...

Scotch And Soda | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

Scotch And Soda | Economics and Politics | Before It's News:   "Scotch and soda a jigger of gin oh what a spell you got me in" When the Kingston Trio came out with that song the innocence of that period of time has been lost. Today's violent world where insurrection, mayhem and horror are all a reality it would be such...

Frank Sinatra And Me | Relationship | Before It's News

Frank Sinatra And Me | Relationship | Before It's News: Leave it to Frank Sinatra whose rendition of the songs "It Was A Very Good Year" and "I Did It My Way" all embodied, exemplified, and personified the character within me. Though not intentionally my whole life seemed to revolve around key elements related in each musical score. From the...

Disaster In The Making | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

Disaster In The Making | Economics and Politics | Before It's News: When Russia's President Putin recently stated we are ready for Nuclear War in response to what the US in aiding Ukraine sets the stage for the most catastrophic calamity not seen since the end of the dinosaurs. Apparently, we haven't learned anything when we send military aid, and Billions of...

A Watershed Year | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

A Watershed Year | Economics and Politics | Before It's News: Many people have said or asked this very resounding question, "Are we in the end of times?" The quandary of that question already has very perplexing realities playing out on the world stage. The times we are living in have produced a significant shift for the future of mankind. It...

A Divided Nation | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

A Divided Nation | Economics and Politics | Before It's News: There are many untold truths that have hampered the rise of civilizations. Today the world as we know it if filled with undercurrents of malicious intent to steer societies in directions far removed from their hopes and dreams. The basis for all of the undercurrents are all the contakions rhetoric...

The Setting Sun of America | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

The Setting Sun of America | Economics and Politics | Before It's News: In this troubled year as it has been for past years many can conclude that our best days are far behind us. The vested interests of the powers that be have long since diminished the hopes and dreams of millions of Americans. Our founding was based on four guiding principles...

For Some the World Is Not Enough | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

For Some the World Is Not Enough | Economics and Politics | Before It's News: The wheels of time have turned the tide of turbulent waters toward the shores of what we used to call the land of the free and the home of the brave. Today we are now emersed in a quandary of circumstances far beyond the realms of a nation we used...

No Country for Poor People | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

No Country for Poor People | Economics and Politics | Before It's News: In a world of undeniable hostility where at any moment a terror so horrendous could spark a global catastrophe millions the world over continue to languish hopelessly in desperation. A desperation of lack of hope and opportunity continues to cloud over so many millions of lives. Sure, humanity will no...

May the Force Be With You | Opinion | Before It's News

May the Force Be With You | Opinion | Before It's News: "May the force be with you." Science fiction? Maybe not! It is proven that every living thing emits energy. Are ability to harness and constructively use it is just beginning to be developed. An emotional response for survival is probably the closest in explaining this phenomenon of energy that is...

And The Whiskey Ran Dry | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

And The Whiskey Ran Dry | Economics and Politics | Before It's News: "People won't believe me. They think I'm just bragging. The way I feel the way I do I should be on the wagon. Oh me! Oh my! baby do I feel high. Higher than a kite could fly. Give me loving, Baby do I feel high!" Another opening to a...

The Best of Times Or The Worse of Times | Economics and Politics | Before It's News

The Best of Times Or The Worse of Times | Economics and Politics | Before It's News: The pages of history keep turning to a conclusion far removed from the hopes and dreams of mankind. The handwriting seems to be already on the wall. In a large part by the sheer audacity of those who orchestrate the tempests of our times. The will to change the scenarios...