Few share our privilege, power and freedom – hence responsibility
“Most Chinese aren’t angry about rising inequality. It’s not rich versus poor. It’s the system of power and procedural injustices that they’re upset about.”
-Harvard sociologist Martin K. Whyte, who may as well have been talking about Americans, as quoted in the New York Times.
You cannot arrest an idea.
-OCCUPY
If fatty foods and snacks and drinks sweetened with sugar and high fructose corn syrup are proven to be addictive, food companies may face the most drawn-out consumer safety battle since the anti-smoking movement took on the tobacco industry a generation ago.
-From Bloomberg. Researchers are finding that fatty, sugary foods have similar effects on the brain as addictive drugs.
US military occupation forces in Iraq and Afganistan under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 64 combat casualties in the six days ending November 8, as the official casualty total rose to 110,886 The total includes 79,387 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations “Iraqi Freedom” and “New Dawn”), and 31,499 since the US invaded… Continue reading November 8, 2011
There’s no calls for some sort of post-industrial personal fulfillment in their labor – very few even invoke the idea that a job should “mean something.” It’s straight out of antiquity – free us from the bondage of our debts and give us a basic ability to survive.
We must recognize that no one beholden to Big Money can lead America towards being a truly democratic republic.
US military occupation forces in Iraq and Afganistan under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 134 combat casualties in the eight days ending November 2, as the official casualty total rose to 110,822 The total includes 79,387 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations “Iraqi Freedom” and “New Dawn”), and 31,435 since the US invaded… Continue reading November 2, 2011
We have a society in which money is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few people, and in which that concentration of income and wealth threatens to make us a democracy in name only.
-Paul Krugman explains the basic problem, again.
Our only question is will $1.5 billion in theft be enough for the first real perp walk of an Obama-friendly Wall Street executive?
-Zero Hedge, wondering whether Democratic maven Jon Corzine will be jailed over his apparent criminal actions in the downfall of MF Global.
It’s up to the people in the advanced, industrial countries to compel their governments to go along with the world.