Guest Column: Prison Tourism

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Brian Wright

Peru puts new wrinkle on Incarceration Planet
by Bo Keeley

Take a virtual tour of the infamous Lurigancho Lima prison before visiting Peru as a tourist. Watch 50,000 cans of beer tumble off a truck into the prison yard courtesy of the warden who takes a 25-cent commission, try your luck at the casinos, dance shirtless in the disco, pretty girls, drugs, attend church, get a haircut, 12 restaurants run by inmates, a multiple-language library, private rooms and condos, and each of the 300 foreign inmates has a laptop WiFi to run world drug operations on Skype or, as my friend Hank avows, to stay in touch back home. Continue reading →

Guest Column: The Real Bill for BP Oil Disaster

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Brian Wright

BP wants $15 billion; $192 billion is more exact
by Antonia Juhasz

For an eye-opening book of the corporate negligence and GOTUS police state collusion that went into the ‘BP Disaster,’ I recommend a quiet read of Ms. Juhasz’ groundbreaking expose, Black Tide. Irrespective of whether you’re a ‘drill, baby, drill’ cheerleader or a ‘save the baby pelicans’ bleeding heart, you will have a hard time walking away from and dismissing the wholesale criminality at BP and within the federal government that her hard-hitting journalistic account reveals. The following is excerpted from Antonia’s article in HuffPost, 6/11/12: Continue reading →

Guest Column: CC ‘Replies’ Prize for May 2012

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Brian Wright

Winner: Mr. Ron Burcham

“As many of you are aware I’ve set up a program to encourage visitors of the Coffee Coaster (CC) site to contribute Replies to columns and reviews. The writer of the ‘best’ Reply for a given month receives a $20 payment. This month, May 2012, Ron Burcham of Michigan is the winner with his comment(s) on the Movie Review: Taking Chance. He has told me to reinvest the gift into the site, and buy him a beer next I see him, which I shall happily do. The second and third place winners, Randy Uzarek and David Spencer, please go ahead and sign up using the Perke Diem button in the image on the right (on the homepage). All my other readers, please take part in the contest for June, give me a ‘Leave a Reply’ on any column or review.” Continue reading →

Guest Column: Downsize DC vs. NDAA Detention

Posted on May 28, 2012 by Brian Wright

District court issues injunction against NDAA detention
by Jim Babka

Can you handle another victory? We’ve had a bunch this year. Now here’s one more:

We just won a big verdict in the Chris Hedges case against the legalized kidnapping provisions of the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

Remember, Hedges meets with and writes stories about terrorists. Continue reading →

Guest Column: Colonized by Corporations

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Brian Wright

“Why men do not revolt”
by Chris Hedges

(excerpted from Common Dreams column 5/14/12)

In Robert E. Gamer’s book The Developing Nations is a chapter called “Why Men Do Not Revolt.” In it Gamer notes that although the oppressed often do revolt, the object of their hostility is misplaced. They vent their fury on a political puppet, someone who masks colonial power, a despised racial or ethnic group or an apostate within their own political class. The useless battles serve as an effective mask for what Gamer calls the “patron-client” networks that are responsible for the continuity of colonial oppression. Continue reading →

Guest Column: Game Over for the Climate… if…

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Brian Wright

The science of the situation is clear
— it’s time for the politics to follow
by James Hansen

Excerpted by the Coffee Coaster 5/14/12
Full 5.10.12 column in Common Dreams

‘Global warming’ is a controversial subject in the freedom movement, with a sizable percentage dismissing it as globalist propaganda intended to better control the masses. I think we need to separate the science from the agendas present on one side of the Cartelocracy or the other, then do what we can as human beings to avoid realistic dangers of climate catastrophe in the geologic-time near term.

Dr. Hansen‘s comments, now as a private citizen, seem prudent and solid to me from the perspective of simple rationality. Plus his suggested fixes appear to be a lot freer from politics and globalist meddling than cap and trade. — bw Continue reading →

Guest Column: Patriots Targeted for American Gulag

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Brian Wright

Leaked US Army document outlines plan for
GOTUS[1] ‘reeducation’ camps for US citizens
Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars.com

Army Reeducation Camps “We [Alex Jones and other journalists at infowars.com and prisonplanet.com] have exhaustively documented preparations for the mass internment of citizens inside America, but this is the first time that language concerning the reeducation of detainees, in particular political activists, has cropped up in our research.” Continue reading →