Category: Fly Bites

Banksters Take All ….The Slave Game

Abraham Lincoln needed money to finance the Union Cause at the beginning of the American Civil War. When he approached the privately held banks for loans, they did not want Lincoln and the Union to succeed, so they offered him loans at utterly usurious interest rates of up to...

The Partnership Way

John Perkins, author of “Secrets of an Economic Hitman” and “The Secret History of American Empire” (both highly recommended reads, BTW, if you want to know more about the machinations of empire building) relates this interesting interview.   While traveling in Tibet he met and spoke with a group...

Spaceship Earth

Paul Hawkins is a writer and an activist who agitates and campaigns for social and economic justice, the ecology of our only planet, and a better planet for us all.   In one of his books, “Blessed Unrest,” he described an interesting exercise that he had given to a...

Unusual Tourist Attraction

The town of St Paul, Alberta is home to the world’s first Flying Saucer Landing Pad!   This unique structure was erected in 1967 to celebrate Canada’s Centennial and to attract tourists, both earthlings and galactics, to the town.   The Hon. Paul Hellyer, Canada’s Minister of Defense, flew...

They Don’t Make Stuff Like They Used To!

Some 20 years ago I owned a vintage Hoover Upright vacuum cleaner manufactured sometime in the 1940’s. I’d inherited it from a gal pal who had moved into a 4,000 square foot McMansion with a central vacuum system so she had no more need for this venerable household gadget....