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Noam Chomsky
The current US economy is built on 'growing worker insecurity' - people who are too busy and poor to make demands.
Cambridge, MA - The Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. Unprecedented, in fact. There's never been anything like it that I can think of. If the bonds and associations it has established can be sustained through a long, dark period ahead - because victory won't come quickly - it could prove a significant moment in American history.
The fact that the Occupy movement is unprecedented is quite appropriate. After all, it's an unprecedented era and has been so since the 1970s, which marked a major turning point in American history. For centuries, since the country began, it had been a developing society, and not always in very pretty ways. That's another story, but the general progress was toward wealth, industrialisation, development and hope. There was a pretty constant expectation that it was going to go on like this. That was true even in very dark times.
I'm just old enough to remember the Great Depression. After the first few years, by the mid-1930s - although the situation was objectively much harsher than it is today - nevertheless, the spirit was quite different. There was a sense that "we're gonna get out of it", even among unemployed people, including a lot of my relatives, a sense that "it will get better".
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It is just amazing to me how outraged, worked-up, I mean just pissed-off Americans and their “elected” representatives can get when they are lead to perceive there is injustice anywhere in the world---okay except in Palestinian areas and Darfur and oh yeah the United States.
“But Bobby”, you’re saying this is America ‘land of the free, home of the brave’blah, blah, blah….
While that may be true there are a whole passel of the“tired, …poor, …huddled masses yearning to breathe free”, you know like it says on the Statue of Liberty who would likely take exception.
Take a look.It is just amazing to me how outraged, worked-up, I mean just pissed-off Americans... more
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Even when you’re told that “It’s not about the money”---it’s about the money.
In the U.S. the top 1% is worth more than the bottom 95%.
In the U.S. only the top 3% earn $300,000 and more. In today’s world $300,000 is chump change.
In the U.S. then that means that whatever the top 1% wants---the top 1% gets.
And we’re the beacon for the world. Now, that’s scary.Even when you’re told that “It’s not about the... more
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Bill Moyers signs off his last broadcast with an editorial discussion on why plutocracy and democracy don't mix. In 2005, Citigroup coined the term Plutonomy: An economic system where the priviledged few ensure that the rich get richer with government on their side.Bill Moyers signs off his last broadcast with an editorial discussion on why... more
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The folk of the nation have spoken---inarticulately, illiterately, incoherently, vindictively and far from lucid but they have spoken.
Just another example of why it was the founders didn’t stand-up and in fact feared the notion of “democracy.”The folk of the nation have spoken---inarticulately, illiterately, incoherently,... more
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Democrat, GOPer, Tea Partier, Green Party, Libertarian (good grief)?
What is a voter to do? Well that depends. Mostly it doesn’t really matter since many voters are armed mostly with prejudice, bias, hate, anger and/or a sense of “moral indignation.” Now that’s scary.
http://robertruiz-respublica.blogspot.com/2010/09/bexar-county-public-policy-another-way.html
www.examiner.com/public-policy-in-san-antonio/public-policy-another-way-of-saying-majority-rule-i-e-tyranny-by-majority?cid=examiner-emailDemocrat, GOPer, Tea Partier, Green Party, Libertarian (good grief)?
What is a... more
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The Unseen Hand or the Hidden Hand are metaphors describing the secret and veiled power group(s) that control a government or manipulate public opinion in order to achieve a specific agenda. These terms connotate conspiracies in that these groups attempt through subterfuge to affect designs not overtly popular or known. Moreover, another connotation of these phrases also refer to what may be called "shadow government", "invisible government" or a government within a government. Many observers have noted that historical events hardly ever happen by chance but more often than not occur by deliberate planning.2The Unseen Hand or the Hidden Hand are metaphors describing the secret and veiled... more
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Who is Barry Soetoro?: Who is "Barry Soetoro"? As this Google trends graph shows, lots of people have been searching for this fellow since 2008. That's because Who is Barry Soetoro is supposedly the real name of President Barack Obama.Who is Barry Soetoro?: Who is "Barry Soetoro"? As this Google trends graph... more
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The film also turns the spotlight on some underreported gems: an internal Citibank report happily declaring America a "plutonomy," with the top 1 percent of the population controlling more financial wealth than the bottom 95 percent; an expose of "dead peasant" insurance policies that have companies cashing in on the untimely deaths of their employees; and amazing footage of FDR, found buried in a film archive and not seen in decades, calling for a Second Bill of Rights that would guarantee all Americans a useful job, a decent home, adequate health care, and a good education.
And Moore underlines the irony of Larry Summers being put in charge of fixing the crisis he helped create. A little like asking Kanye West to plan a Taylor Swift tribute.
While taking no prisoners, and directing equal doses of ire at Republicans and Democrats alike, the film also features a number of heroes, including bailout watchdog Elizabeth Warren; Wayne County, Michigan Sheriff Warren Evans, who announced in February: "I cannot in clear conscience allow one more family to be put out of their home until I am satisfied they have been afforded every option they are entitled to under the law to avoid foreclosure"; and Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur, who took to the House floor and offered a radical solution to the foreclosure crisis: "So I say to the American people, you be squatters in your own homes. Don't you leave."
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/barack-obama-must-see-mic_b_293407.htmlThe film also turns the spotlight on some underreported gems: an internal Citibank... more
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