Larry Flynt's Blog, page 28

IT'S A PYRAMID SCHEME THAT COULD DESTROY AMERICA

"I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said."—Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan in a speech to the Economic Club of New York, 1988

by Ellen Brown

for HUSTLER Magazine – July 2010

IF YOU'VE NEVER REALLY UNDERSTOOD THE FEDERAL RESERVE but were too embarrassed to ask, don't worry. Hardly anybody understands it, and the Federal Reserve (or "Fed") likes it that way. "Fed speak" is a term coined to describe its...

REWARDING FAILURE

by Mark Johnson

for HUSTLER Magazine – July 2010

Just a year after sucking in over $700billion in taxpayer-funded bailouts, the Wall Street banks have again posted record profits and paid out huge bonuses.

Defending the latest free-for-all, banks say that they have paid back most of the money from the Troubled Assets Relief Program with interest. But the TARP bailout sum of $700 billion represents only a small fraction of the trillions of dollars in federal funds made available to rescue the...

THE SATAN FACTOR

OR WHY I LOST MY FAITH IN GOD

by Alex Bennett

for HUSTLER Magazine – July 2010

After years of doing talk shows about wars I arose one day to find that all this chatter about God being on our side was getting to me. The constant invoking of a deity prompted me to ask myself a major intellectual question: Is there a God?

I know there is (spoiler alert) no Santa Claus. There is no Easter Bunny or Tooth Fairy. So how come I believe in God? In my case, I realized, it was because I wasn't taking any c...

JIM BUNNING

Asshole of the Month

from HUSTLER Magazine – July 2010

Nobody likes this guy—not even his fellow Republicans. Jim Bunning makes Dick Cheney look like the Tooth Fairy. Public-opinion polls show the senator's approval rating in his home state of Kentucky is as low as 28%, which could explain why he isn't seeking reelection in 2010. And even the GOP won't support his efforts.

Bunning, whose intellectual rigor has been compared to cooked spaghetti, made news a few months back with his one-man...

IS DEMOCRACY DEAD?

from HUSTLER Magazine – June 2010

The U.S. Supreme Court decision of January 21, 2010 (Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ),allowing corporations to spend endless amounts of money influencing our elections, will change America forever. The election process, already awash in money from the fat cats, will now be swamped by corporate propaganda favoring their chosen candidate. In comparison, contributions from the average citizen will be insignificant. Our democracy has never faced...

IS GEORGE W. OBAMA LISTENING IN?

A FEDERAL JUDGE'S LANDMARK RULING UPHOLDS BIG BROTHER'S SURVEILLANCE OF OUR TELEPHONES AND COMPUTERS.

by Nat Hentoff for HUSTLER Magazine – June 2010

In a startling decision on January 21, 2010, Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that we Americans have no privacy rights in our telephone and e-mail communications whenever the federal government decides to spy on us for national-security reasons.

The judge dismissed a...

SIGN OF THE TIMES

LEARNING THEY'LL HAVE TO PAY MORE TOSTAY IN SCHOOL, CALIFORNIA COLLEGE STUDENTS EXPRESS THEIR RAGE.

by Emily Kelley for HUSTLER Magazine – June 2010

Uncertainty continues to reign at California's public colleges and universities. Many students may drop out—but not because they loathe lectures, writing term papers and boning up for exams.

Tuition-fee hikes ignited campus protests throughout California, including a massive walkout by UCLA students and faculty.

In July 2009, after lawmakers had...

A MESSAGE TO THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT

from HUSTLER Magazine – July 2010

You have a reason to be angry. You are being screwed. The bankers get bailed out, but the working class is left to fend for itself at a time when jobs are hard to find. But your anger is misdirected.

You are being lied to. It's the corporations that have brought this about. They have corrupted both the Republicans and the Democrats. Aside from shipping your jobs overseas, corporations want their taxes reduced as a way of further increasing profits. Reduced tax ...

GLENN BECK of FOX NEWS

Asshole of the Month – from HUSTLER Magazine – June 2010

Is he insane, stupid or just a clever cynic manipulating the public in pursuit of a buck? We think that Glenn Beck, who hosts a syndicated radio talk show and a televised counterpart on Fox News, is all three. Whatever the case, Beck is certainly an ugly, misshapen blob who spews out hate and misinformation that's poisoning how Americans think and thereby weakening our country.

Still, we can't help but pity Beck. There's good reason for ...

SAD STATE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

THE PRESIDENT AND POLITICIANS WHO SUPPOSEDLY SPEAK FOR THE "LITTLE GUY" HAVE FAILED TO DELIVER WHERE IT MATTERS MOST.

by Robert Scheer

for HUSTLER Magazine – June 2010

So the Democrats lost their much-vaunted"filibuster-proof" majority in the Senate?Well, they're probably relieved: ScottBrown's arrival gives them another excuse notto deliver on campaign promises that upsettheir financiers from Wall Street and theFortune 500.

Seriously, the Democrats are not so muchinept or unorganized—as the...