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Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-7-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Read this column and you will make money and lose 20 pounds.

If such claims insult you as sucker bait, you're correct.

But you've gone this far, so let's take a ride.

GOOSING GASOLINE PRICES. BigOil once again rapes and pillages with impunity after racking up record profits.

As usual, the legit media parrot petroleum-dipped press releases purveying the perpetual propaganda.

For two decades, I've documented how the domestic cartel figured out how to beat anti-trust laws and cleverly engineered a rigged market. (See the ever-expanding Barbwire Oilogopoly Archive at NevadaLabor.com/)

Wall Street's megabank pimps and insurance thieves always knew they had little to fear from the U.S. Justice Dept. after witnessing decades of inaction against BigOil.

A recent PBS Frontline documentary entitled The Untouchables described how no high level corporate criminal has ever been busted for the economic collapse.

An off-the-record source admitted the obvious: chief prosecutor Lanny Breuer was afraid to go to court and lose.

He resigned shortly after the broadcast.

I've ranted for years that oil companies hire smarter, meaner lawyers than government can afford.

Mr. Breuer is the poster child for the problem.

Competition has been eliminated in favor of legalized price-fixing in so many areas.

The insurance industry has been exempt from anti-trust laws since 1945 thanks to Sen. Patrick McCarran, D-Nev.

Bush the Lesser gave away untold billions from Medicare to big drug companies.

Now comes Obamacare with no cost controls.

As I noted a couple of weeks ago, the United Healthcare monopoly plans to use the new online insurance exchange to bust out the few remnants of Nevada competition.

Everybody knows the fight is fixed.

DISSING HICKSVILLE. Former Washoe County School Superintendent Heath Morrison trashed us in a recent interview with the Charlotte Observer:

"In Reno, because the industries that drove Reno were gaming and construction, the truth was, you didn’t need to have a college-educated workforce. You didn’t even have to graduate from high school. What I love about this (North Carolina) community is the desires to help are very, very sincere. If we don’t take advantage of that we’re going to really miss the boat. At a time we’re not flush with resources, we have the resource of a community that really wants to help."

The traveling salesman has apparently forgotten that he famously left us with a literally incredible hike in graduation rates while scoring national awards for both himself and the school board.

Only the Barbwire dared print that the Music Man sold the hicks in River City a song and dance and blew town one step ahead of the awful truth. Read the record for yourself at NevadaLabor.com/

SUCKER BETS, PART DEUX. If you missed what Nevada sports books were trying to tell infatuated 49er fans, you weren't paying attention. To those who didn't take the Ravens and the points, the Nevada gambling industry thanks you.

WEB EXTRAS

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Last year's rogues gallery will be linked to the expanded web edition of this column at NevadaLabor.com/

SUPPORT THE DONALD. Kudos for the kind words about Don Dondero (1920-2003) as we ramp up the campaign to install the photographic superstar in the Nevada Press Association Hall of Fame.

His life's work appeared worldwide, including this newspaper.

Enlist in the campaign to install Big Don.

Please send me your memories and endorsements via e-mail or to P.O. Box 10034, Reno NV 89510.

HELP REVIVE RENO-SPARKS COMMUNITY TV.

If last year's elections didn't convince you, the 2013 legislature certainly will.

Join up.

You may donate at ReSurge.TV or contact me.

This is important.

Thank you.

LET'S GET IT ON. E-me to get on the Barbwire News bulletin list for information not filtered through corporate lenses.

I broke a bushel of major stories last year.

More soon.

Feliz año nuevo.

Be well. Raise hell.

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Andrew Barbano is a 44-year Nevadan, chair of the Nevada César Chávez Committee, producer of Nevada's annual César Chávez Day celebration, first vice-president and political action chair of the Reno-Sparks NAACP, labor/consumer/civil rights advocate, member of Communications Workers of America Local 9413/AFL-CIO and editor of NevadaLabor.com and JoeNeal.org. As always, his opinions are strictly his own. Check local listings for other Nevada cable systems. E-mail barbano@frontpage.reno.nv.us. Barbwire by Barbano has originated in the Daily Sparks Tribune since 1988.

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Andrew Barbano is a 44-year Nevadan, editor of NevadaLabor.com and JoeNeal.org; and former chair of the City of Reno's Citizens Cable Compliance Committee, He is producer of Nevada's annual César Chávez Day celebration and serves as first vice-president, political action chair and webmaster of the Reno-Sparks NAACP. As always, his opinions are strictly his own. E-mail barbano@frontpage.reno.nv.us.

Barbwire by Barbano moved to the Daily Sparks (Nev.) Tribune on Aug. 12, 1988, and has originated in them parts ever since.
How a hall-of-famer's hunch birthed the Barbwire in August of 1987
Tempus fugit.

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