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Sunday Morning Music
Posted by: | CommentsI always love seeing rock anthems performed in what I consider inappropriate corporate settings.
Open Letter To The President
Posted by: | CommentsDear Mr. President,
Mr. President you have been presented with a gift. A mulligan of sorts. Wall Street has not been reformed since the disaster of 2008. Leadership on such reform has been sorely lacking from your Administration. This is your area of weakness, Sir, and the country, and your political adversaries, know this well.
The sky has not fallen again, but in that we are lucky, not prepared or impervious. The news this week that J.P. Morgan, safest bank in the land has fallen victim to bad bets on risky “boutique investment” vehicles, is the smoking gun. People hear the term “credit default swaps” and they get understandably nervous. You can’t afford nervous. Read More→
Ah, Spring!
Posted by: | CommentsSpring is in the air, and all around the country the heat is rising, the flowers are blooming, the farmers are wondering who the Hell is going to pick all this stuff come July, and the wacko quotient Nationwide is beginning to come to a frothy boil.
Extraordinary
Posted by: | CommentsThe shareholders meetings for Duped Energy and Banks Over America are happening in Charlotte. Duke’s meeting is tomorrow and BOA on the 9th. Both are expected to bring some protests. As if.
Hooligan TJ alluded to it in comments, but I wanted to provide a space for folks to expand on the events themselves, the protests planned, and the “extraordinary circumstances” rules that are being put in place to try to dampen or diffuse the impact of peaceful protests, otherwise known as free speech.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
You would think that every attempt to stifle the will of “The People” through the imposition of laws designed to curb the above would be met with an equal and opposite escalation of action; force to meet force. Unfortunately the people are vastly outgunned, out tasered, out funded and out organized by the government that still claims to be responsive to said will of the people. In this particular instance they seem to have enacted legislation to protect one corporate citizen from being confronted by thousands of real live human citizens.
The government has yet to act to force change upon these Corporate citizens that would improve their moral and ethical standards of practice, and these rules seem to be made to insure that the citizenry doesn’t either.
How does that make you feel? Do you approve? Should or would Asheville do the same thing? Is this a dress rehearsal for the Democratic Convention, and does that heighten the chances of things going wrong and people getting hurt?
Letter To A Young American
Posted by: | CommentsThis is a recent entry in a very good series. If you haven’t been to Big Think, you should spend some time there. It is a good thing on the Internets.
Here is the one and only Henry Rollins, speaking to young Americans:
And here is part two:
