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Sunday, April 22, 2012
Two years after the disaster in the Gulf we have new reports that the waters are horribly toxic and is killing the marine life. Much of the science remains unavailable to us due to the litigation and the rules of law. You can
watch Thom discuss the situation
or read about it in
Crude Awakening.
The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science - and Reality
is partly to blame. This is because that mindset is a regressive force in the fight for progress. You can listen to a podcast from
Point of Inquiry
with Mooney and find other informative stuff there too. He talks about integrative complexity...
How Wealth Reduces Compassion
is an interesting article published in Common Dreams and it might be fun to look for more writings from Daisy Grewal....like
The Evolution of Prejudice
.
Chris Hedges on the Myth of Human Progress
Joseph Tainter on the Collapse of Complex Societies
on You tube
Chris Hedges The World as it is
...he doesn't think that Maddow is progressive...but that can all be found in Hartmannland along with a synopsis of
The Long Decent
. The longer the better is what I say. Unfortunately we may be in for a quick collapse.
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Sunday, April 15, 2012
There is some evidence that conservative policies will cause harm, even death to many people.
Demos has an article
on the subject. It reminds me of the study that shows
suicides increasing with conservative administrations
...perhaps we need more
play ethic
....
It's not surprising,
markets can be irrational
as
Ultimatum Game theory
demonstrates...here's
a youtube video
, one of many...ah, here we are..
an interview from marketplace
about how irrational people make irrational markets so I'll have to
watch this NOVA
. Now we have
the author
and
the book
to help out with the perspective.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Saving What We Can
Many of us are familiar with our climate crisis, but fewer are aware of
The Other Inconvient Truth.
What are we to do?
Integral Activism is my suggestion. We need to create a social networking site that is a very modestly priced subscription service which will fund global democracy, education and charitable efforts for the greater effort of saving as much of the biosphere and the gains of civilization as is possible.
Brian Skerry read that 90% of the fishes have been caught and killed since he was born and that startling statistic inspired him to
reveal the ocean's glory - and horror
. Shall we save what ew can?
Jeremy Jackson is known for his deep understanding of geologic time..or so it has been written. If you can stomach it he will explain
How we wrecked the oceans
. I hope you're not faint of heart.
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Pump and Dump
Looks like we're in for a lot more bubbles forming in the stock market. William Black explained pump and dump scams that the JOBS bill will foster. He seems to be a regular contributor in the
Huffington Post
. Small business is less than a billion dollars as defined by the bill.
Alexis Goldstein
is becoming a regular on UP w/ Chris Hayes. She and Black repeatedly reference
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
and how it is being undermined and gutted by the JOBS bill.
Karen Ho, author of
Liquidated
, is my kind of anthropology professor.
Why Nations Fail
looks like a good read...and Zacharia has
Charles Murry
author of
Coming Apart
and although he may be a libertarian type, he sounds reasonable...
One of my favorite economists, Paul Krugman, wrote a piece about banks and the monetary supply titled
Banking Mysticism, Continued,
that I'll have to read over again because he seems to be rejecting the banking conspiracies..
Check this out...from
Robert Reich
...
The top 1 percent got 45 percent of Clinton-era economic growth, and 65 percent of the economic growth during the Bush era.
According to an analysis of tax returns by
Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Pikkety
, the top 1 percent pocketed 93 percent of the gains in 2010. 37 percent of the gains went to the top one-tenth of one percent. No one below the richest 10 percent saw any gain at all.
In fact, most of the bottom 90 percent have lost ground. Their average adjusted gross income was $29,840 in 2010. That’s down $127 from 2009, and down $4,843 from 2000 (all adjusted for inflation).
So considering Stand Your Grounds, could we shoot all those rich people because poverty causes premature death and illness? Or if those people with pre-existing conditions may loose the healthcare provided by Obamacare may loose that healthcare thanks to the Supreame Court, can they shoot the justices that rule for repeal? Or how about the folks poisoned by the Koch brothers' owned industries that have life threatening and life ending illness...can they shoot the Koch bro's with immunity? That makes more sense to me than being forced to buy broccoli.
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