Banksters fleece the world

It's disturbing to many of that President Obama is advocating for Larry Summers to head the Fed. If you'd like to learn more about and how the banksters have been doing what, check out this great article. It ought to disturb you. 

Ever hear of Cancer Alley? You can read all about it at Treehugger if you have the stomach for it. Perhaps I'll go for a walk in the park on this beautiful day to try to shake some of the darkness that threatens to consume my psyche.

On a more immediate and brighter note, Portugal reported that 70% of the power consumed in the first quarter this year came from renewable sources. It's nice to see that Big Oil doesn't control everything everywhere.

If you'd like to see just how brazenly the NRA distorts the truth, just click here and check out the graphics.

There has been a lot of information about income inequality, but the decline of social mobility remains on a back page. Fortunately we can simply click to read about it and don't have to dirty our hands with that old fashioned messy ink.

I really like these charts from a Gallup poll...what I find so interesting is the public perception in contrast with the history of tax rates in this country.

 

Motivation

Just a little side note before I get down to business...seeing that I was just fired from a crappy job that regularly committed all 8 Surefire Ways to Demotivate Your Employees and had other ways as well. I wonder if the NFIB is for real or if it's a corporate front.

One of the questions we should ask ourselves as activists is, how do we sustain efforts?
Another is, how do we grow our base?

the right problem is a conservative conundrum

There's a problem with the American right that seems like an intractable conservative conundrum. It is a difficult subject to address, but the political right in America is severely diseased and we need reasonable discussion about this pressing matter before more harm is inflicted on society.

Yeah, there are some problems on the left, but I don't think that they as dire as the condition on the right. Either way, Truth Matters. We may find that conservative attitude is both a stage and a type. In any case, there may always be The Conservative Brain among us and in us. There are pros and cons to just about everything.

It may be helpful to visit Conservative Myths for an orientation and a contrast to liberalism.

We now have more millionaires in this country then ever before.
We now have more people experiencing food insecurity than ever recorded.
We now have more billionaires in this country then almost ever before.
More people have dropped out of the workforce than ever before.

AlterNet helps to reveal that structural economic conditions are not responsible for these changes.

Maybe some of the rich and famous alleged atheists will help with the SBNNR project.

American Anti-Corruption Act
Fair Elections Now Act
Gail & Franklin Project
Grassroots Democracy Act
............................................from the comments found here at TED

Debt-tastrphe

It's looking more and more like all of the conspiracy theorists and bankster alarmists have been correct. I still can't exactly peek behind the curtains, but I an familiar with the Secret of Oz. BusinessWeek (via Bloomberg?) and Fox Business (with really crappy link/references) have stories about the Chinese debt situation, which should evolve into a crisis if they want to follow the Western models.

WTF? I've been asking for quite some time as to who all the money is owed to if all the richest nations on the planet (besides Germany) are all deep in debt. Looks like the world wide web is a Web of Debt. I hope some people eventually get to inhabit all those ghost cities before they rot with neglect. Check it out...

 

Fallout

Fallout from the Fukushima disaster appears to have sickened babies in the West coast states of the US. You can read about that here....

Lawrence Lessig gave a recent TED Talk We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim. He did a good job framing an issue and making a point, but he failed to confront the right problem, the problem of the right. In that last election cycle he talked about, nearly half of the people voted for Romney and Republicans made great gains in many states. I wonder if he is simply trying to promote his new book. Perhaps he has fallen into the conceit of the middle. I;m not even sure what the hell he's talking about in this talk, do you? Okay, so it makes a little sense near the 18 minute mark.

It's funny how some liberals bend over backwards trying to find virtue in conservatives'. Aren't the KKK an epitome of conservatives? Do we really need to condone these things?

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