The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
26 December 2010 BETWEEN ‘ICKY’ AND ‘BRIBERY’ Miles Mogulescu: Holiday Cheers for DADT Repeal, 9/11 Healthcare, and START, But It’s Still the Economy, Stupid Too Small To Save: How The Fed Let Community Banks Fail
The attached blog, “Failing to Prosecute Wall Street Fraud Is Extending Our Economic Problems,” is a cut-and-paste accumulation of a variety of outlooks. Most are based on analyses or accumulated wisdom, but some appear based on hunches, ideologies, etc. Taken together, however, they paint a horrifying picture of the American political economy and our prospects for …
VEGETABLES, ANIMALS AND POLITICS. At waking up, this morning, the sun almost hitting the solar panels,’ a mandala of a shining star of grass in my third eye. Happens whenever I pull weeds too. Or trim the zumac tree. Or in the old days, when I pulled the mustard after a rain. Tons of mustard. …
Extraordinary Collection, Unique, Timely, No Notes December 16, 2009 Dacher Keltner, Jason March, Jeremy Adam Smith This is a truly extraordinary collection of essays from the magazine Greater Good, a magazine I had no idea existed. The editors have done a tremendous job in selecting 35 essays (click on the cover above to see the …
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Chuck Spinney sends…. Obama’s Big Sellout The president has packed his economic team with Wall Street insiders intent on turning the bailout into an all-out giveaway MATT TAIBBI Rolling Stone Dec 09, 2009 Phi Beta Iota: We include the entire article below to share Chuck Spinney’s value-added highlights. See the original article without highlights by …
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EXTRACTS from A Book Review by Richard C. Cook (FREE VERMONT MEDIA) It’s too late for anyone to pretend that the U.S. government, whether under President Barack Obama or anyone else, can divert our nation from long-term economic decline. The U.S. is increasingly in a state of political, economic, and moral paralysis, caught as it …
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Six senators representing 3 percent of the population are running things because the White House wants it that way By Robert Reich Aug. 23, 2009 | On Thursday, the so-called Gang of Six – three Republicans and three Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee – met by conference call and, according to Max Baucus, D-Mont., …
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