Eagle: Presidential Campaign Needs to Get Real on Economy, Salvaging the Middle Class

Presidential campaign needs to get real on salvaging middle class With the coming U.S. presidential election, 2012 offers voters, business leaders and politicians an opportunity for a joint debate over the fundamentals of capitalism in America. By Michael HiltzikLos Angeles Times, December 31, 2011 Occupy Wall Street and its coast-to-coast spinoffs captured the headlines in …

Review: Ecological Intelligence – The Hidden Impacts of What We Buy

Daniel Goleman Relevance, Content, Price–Solid Five,December 29, 2011 I chose this book over Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature and seeing the author’s note about this other book “by a physician, Jungian analyst, and poet” am certain I made the right choice. The author’s “big idea” is called “Radical Transparency,” what the rest of us …

NIGHTWATCH: Financial Crisis Now a Crisis of Fundamentals

Europe:  Updates. In an interview with a French daily on 25 December, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde stressed that Europe’s financial crisis is turning into “a crisis of confidence in public debt and the solidity of the financial system. Greece: According to an IMF source involved in discussions with Greece, the situation in …

Theophilis Goodyear: Arrest Warrants & Debtor’s Prison

It’s not just the US military that is being given the power to lock American citizens up without due process. Many counties and states are being lied to and manipulated into issuing arrest warrants without due process–no notification, no documentation, etcetera. The following article from the Wall Street Journal describes modern day versions of debtors …

John Steiner: Occupy Hearts – Compassion New Currency

Compassion Is Our New Currency : Notes on 2011’s Preoccupied Hearts and Minds Rebecca Solnit TomDispatch.com, December 22, 2011. Usually at year’s end, we’re supposed to look back at events just passed — and forward, in prediction mode, to the year to come. But just look around you! This moment is so extraordinary that it …

Mini-Me: Hillary to Challenge Obama in 2012 — As Long Planned

HILLARY CLINTON WILL CHALLENGE OBAMA IN 2012! Frank Lake Weekly World News, December 21st, 2011 WASHINGTON, DC –  Sources close to Hillary Clinton say  she will announce her run for President in 2012. Hillary Clinton came to WWN Headquarters and told editors that she is livid about the downgrade of the U.S. Credit Rating.  “I’ve stood …