Archives Bellaciao EN 1999-2016

The Big Book of Freedom

2011-09-17T13:53:05Z

We live in strange times, but then, you don't need me to remind you of that. We are dissipated and scattered, sermonized and patronized and intellectually euthanized. These are revolutionary times though some don't believe it; some won't accept it and some will only whisper about it in the dark.
We are no longer what we once were; we have become something which our past would despise. I remember in that halcyon little Chicago suburb of my youth buying cigarettes in a local liquor store (…)

- contributions / Daveparts

Dante's Slope

2011-07-12T19:29:26Z

By David Glenn Cox
I have been at loose ends now for two, could it be going on three years? Without a phone or an address to call my own, I have access to these things but they aren't mine. For the last six months I have been staying like Dick Cheney, in an undisclosed location. I wonder now, if I've become a gentleman of the road? I've been placing an ad in Craigslist offering to do day labor, I've built fences, stained decks, built brick retaining walls. No job application, credit check (…)

- contributions / Edito, USA, Daveparts

Part of the Plan

2011-06-02T02:01:40Z

By David Glenn Cox
Why did President Barack Obama choose this week to bring up Israel and the 1967 borders as a basis for peace negotiations? It will raise a lot of hackles, but in the end it will become a tempest in a teapot. Israel will never give up one inch of ground under any circumstances, nor will the US pressure her to do so. This is a diversionary tactic, kicking the cat to cover the truth and the truth is bad. It is as bad as the truth can come.
Boston Globe- Nearly two years (…)

- contributions / Wars and conflicts, International, Governments, USA, Daveparts

Enabling Acts

2011-05-08T15:13:45Z

by David Glenn Cox
I've been watching a magic trick, just another of many that I've witnessed over the years. Funny thing about magic tricks is that even though you don't know for sure how the trick is done, you do know that what you've just witnessed isn't the truth. The only thing that you can ever count on to be the truth in the United States is that you are never told the truth.
I've seen a President killed with a sniper rifle with a bent site and misaligned scope. I've had it (…)

- contributions / Governments, USA, History, Daveparts

100 Reasons for Revolution

2011-04-12T13:35:27Z

by David Glenn Cox
There comes a time when the Gordian knot must be cut when the systems and processes which might have been used to correct the errors and injustices of the meandering course of human affairs have been broken and have become decrepit. But worse still, it is when these processes have not become broken or decrepit but have been intentionally mutilated and deformed into a monstrosity.
I began this article before the events in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race were announced. (…)

- contributions / Edito, Movement, Daveparts

What was, What is, and What's Coming Next

2010-11-28T14:06:52Z

By David Glenn Cox
Hindsight is 20/20, you can look back throughout history and choose any three events and the future becomes explained. The American Revolution 1776, the French Revolution 1789, the terror 1793 – Napoleon 1799.
The American Revolution financed in part by France, helped to deplete the French treasury in what Churchill called, “the first world war.” The depleted treasury exacerbated the domestic miseries of the French people, while the idea of republicanism fired their (…)

- contributions / USA, France, History, Daveparts

Another Great Day for Democracy

2010-10-22T15:56:14Z

By David Glenn Cox
There is good journalism and then there is bad journalism and then there is reprehensible journalism. The reprehensible journalist is akin to the kid whose parents worked two jobs so he could attend the Julliard school of music. Only to graduate and take a job with Muszak rewriting Black Sabbath songs to be used as elevator music with a Paul Anka impersonator singing, “I am Iron Man.”
It is reprehensible not just because it is bad, but because the opportunity is there (…)

- contributions / Demos-Actions, Economy-budget, USA, France, Daveparts

Testicle Importation

2010-10-20T16:32:47Z

By David Glenn Cox
Those of you who know me well, know I'm a buy American first kind of guy. I don't drive foreign cars or eat fancy foreign cheeses but you just can't grow a good Brazil nut in Omaha. There are sometimes when importation is the only answer to a national shortage.
Don't ask me why, maybe its the fluoride in the water or all those atom bomb tests back in the 1950's but this country is facing a serious testicle shortage. It would certainly seem to explain the volume of porn (…)

- contributions / Edito, Wars and conflicts, USA, France, Daveparts

So Many Suckers So Few Bridges

2010-09-10T17:07:51Z

By David Glenn Cox
I sometimes don't know who I am anymore. As I was walking to the library and I saw a younger man in a business suit buying gas. I thought to myself, “I used to be him.” He looked well dressed but not prosperous driving a company car and a little unsure of the neighborhood and it made me smile. Then I saw a guy in his twenties shaggy haired pulling out of some apartments and he looked as if he was trying to shake off last night's buzz or maybe leaving his paramour's den (…)

- contributions / Economy-budget, USA, Daveparts

Extraordinary!

2010-09-07T17:50:14Z

By David Glenn Cox
I walk these quiet empty streets like a post-apocalyptic omega man surrounded by quiet and empty stores and houses. Past the fast food joints still not busy even at dinnertime and car washes not busy on a beautiful Saturday morning. I fell into some money this week and thought I'd celebrate by going down to the sport's bar about a mile from the garage and watching some college football.
I told my son where I was going and he screwed up his face and asked, “What sports (…)

- contributions / Governments, USA, Daveparts