There is a moral cesspool around Wall Street, Treasury & Fed that threatens everyone. The following information from Greg Palast about Larry Summers and Tim Geithner should be known by every citizen in the Anglo-sphere, i.e., the English-speaking world. <http://www.alternet.org/economy/larry-summers-and-secret-end-game-memo?akid=10868.315724.EHPdNL&rd=1&src=newsletter890083&t=9> John Paulson and Lloyd Blankfein CEO of Goldman Sachs come off as criminals of the worst […]
“The Kochroach Theory, while less known than the Peter Principle, is also a proven and readily observable characteristic of those individual persons who have risen to extreme levels of moral and ethical incompetence, and are following the next path on their journey to establish ‘More is Not Enough’ as the guiding principle of the One […]
Three weeks before that rainy day when I heard John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas, November 22, 1963, I had turned 32 years of age. My son was two years old and was with our usual sitter for the afternoon. His mother was at work in downtown Berkeley, at Shattuck Square. I was on […]
Bob Burnett, on Huffington Post, 8-27-31 writes: “Republicans don’t understand that it would be a terrible idea to crater the American economy because they’ve lost touch with reality. Hypnotized by a toxic blend of Reaganomics and Objectivism, Republicans don’t understand how the economy works or the concerns of middle-class families.” I add: They seem lost […]
We know that fraud, self-deceit and false consciousness run rampant in our world. That these exist is more evident than that a traditionally-conceived God exists. Fakery and reasoning on the basis of premises false to fact but accordant to wish or agenda is as common as fiat money. They have similar standing and use. Their […]
Once again I take issue with the mustiness of mental bags and boxes many folks live in uneasily but might like to escape. For transtheists like myself, the existence or non-existence of something called “God” is moot; merely an emotionally polarized issue culturally associated with immense verbiage and inflated attitudes, but which has no denotation […]
Our country, and thanks to us the whole western world, seems consumed with fear. After the Cold War, we remain irrationally defensive. Fear in various forms, from multiple causes and excuses, foists on us the most massively over-developed military organization ever to exist on earth, both relatively and absolutely. Why? Topping that is the ponderous […]
We humans are an ecological part of the biosphere, not apart from and above it. We are subject not only to the explicated laws of physics and economy but also to the laws of life which still remain obscure to a great many people. None of the received religions of contemporary western culture actually conceive […]
Yes. North Carolina, with its latest legislative wave of anti-human lawmaking, secedes not from the United States, which would lead to civil war, but from civilization itself. Many millennia have been required to achieve the revered social condition of a stable and benevolent polity with economic life which bids to allow everyone equal opportunity to […]
If anything can waken Tea Party people from their retrogressive, slumberously agitated vision, stir the tired Progressive movements from their sad frustration, and pull them both together into a viable force for solving problems to really improve the nation, it may well be The Metropolitan Revolution. It centers on a new book by Bruce Katz […]