*How Restaurant Workers Help Pay for Lobbying to Keep Their Wages Low.*

Ellen Brown looks at various ways to change the US banking and monetary system that would stabilize it and eliminate the problems caused by the current handling of national debt.

Most of then would require legislation, but the "trillion-dollar platinum coin" may actually be feasible without Congress.

How the Republican Party has sunk: from Honest Abe to Ever-Lie Santos.

The bullshitter lied about many things, but not the basics of his life story. When he lied, Republicans coped with those lies by insisting that the lies were true.

That won't work when Santos falsifies the events of his own life. To support him, Republicans in Congress have to deny blatant facts. Thus, their continued support for him demonstrates that no lie is too low for a Republican in Congress.

On Mao's Cultural Revolution, and how the years of suffering affected Chinese people's psyche and thinking, including that of the father of Distator Xi, and the totally contrary thinking of the dictator himself.

If I understand the article right, the women in the Educated Youth Friendship Group are hardly "fond" of the lives they led during the Cultural Revolution. On the contrary, it says they are pretending together to live the "normal" adolescence that the Cultural Revolution denied them in real life.

*Gordon Brown warns of Tories "testing the water" for two-tier healthcare.* He also warns that this would destroy the NHS. I warned of this years ago -- that the Tories seemed to intend to destroy the NHS.

I wish he were wrong, and I were wrong too.