Corporate-controlled governments will do anything except the right thing — Friends, you’re going to laugh at today’s absurdity. But first, the quick background story… The state of Colorado has a chronic homelessness problem: It’s one of the worst in the nation per capita for homelessness. Over 10,000 people are homeless on any given night. Over 1,000 veterans experience homelessness every…

Join tens of thousands of smart young people who are building real wealth instead of enriching corporations — For those who haven’t heard, the “great” white north has descended into little more than a massive real estate pyramid scheme. Despite possessing the second-largest landmass on earth, more trees per capita than any nation on earth, and enough public land to give every citizen two free acres and still…

Plus: Bitcoin pyramid schemes, right-wing Democrats, and the cure for inflation — Greetings to our hundreds of new subscribers this week — we just cracked 22,000 members in our growing community! I’m Jared A. Brock, your friendly neighborhood corruption correspondent. Here’s your binge-reading: Inflation Is Soaring — Get Ready for the Rich To Blame the Poor. Follow the money if you want to know the…

Don’t let the corporatists fool you — only the elites get a say now — I don’t hate a single human being on planet Earth — including Vladimir Putin — but I loathe the Republican Party: They burned and pillaged Native American homes and forced them onto reserves. They fought tooth-and-nail to keep Black slavery from being abolished. They filibustered the Senate to prevent the…

Fake food will kill the planet and our long-term health — “Can you help us slaughter some Christmas turkeys?” I gulped. My wife and I were staying with our farmer friends on Vancouver Island and it was time to get my hands dirty. Sure, I’d done much of the cooking during our week on the farm — including soufflés and ice…

Follow the money if you want to know the actual source of the cost-of-living crisis — Are you feeling the squeeze yet? Oil is up. Gas is up. Food is up. Electricity is up. Mortgage payments are up. Rent surrendered to land-lorders is wayyy up. Cities around the world are erupting with cost-of-living protests. And we predicted this more than a year ago. But now that…

Why should disciplined savers and the poor be brutally punished to enrich thirsty house speculators? — Before we can talk about interest rates, we need to talk about inflation. Inflation is a crime. Inflation is a tax on the poor. Or rather, it’s straight-up robbery of their already-extremely-limited purchasing power. Inflation also brutally punishes disciplined savers. Inflation creates a culture of short-term thinking versus long-term planning…

Instead of rewarding people for hoarding houses, we should do this instead — “Sociopaths are interested only in their personal needs and desires, without concern for the effects of their behavior on others.” — Dictionary.com I have beloved friends on Vancouver Island who are farmers. They’ve produced 2.4+ million eggs in the past two years. That’s enough to feed 8,000+ people eggs for…

Annabell Rodriguez and Xavier Lopez are worth more than money — I met my future wife when I was twelve years old. By the end of the seventh grade, we were in love — whatever that means in a prepubescent soul — and I kissed her on the cheek that summer. A decade later we were married at the age of…