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Sorry no, Reich is not the resistance.
Robert Reich is great. His historical analysis is sound, though hardly radical. His economics challenge the dominant media narrative. If his illuminations work for you, fine. But sorry no, Robert Reich is not the resistance. Reich is only playing the … Continue reading
I could have been an olympian
But I just don’t give three quarters of a fat rat’s rectal orifice. On the other hand, the jingoism expressed at the downtown parade celebration flustercluck whatever it was was just overbearing. Hey, watching sports is not a measure of … Continue reading
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Tagged America, American, Art, ass, Athletes, Basketball, Bear, Bling, Cherokee, DOW, Downtown, Economics, Ed, ELF, EPA, er, fat, flu, Food, God, hate, Hero, hey, hit, Hockey, Hu, Jingoism, LA, Le, LeT, Lies, MIT, Munich, Odds, Parade, Patriotism, philosophy, press, Rally, Rap, Representatives, Rio, Rock, Russia, SCO, Sport, TB, Tea, Traitor, Truth, Ute, White, WHO, wife, Wind
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Can a currency system be localized?
A friend of mine is studying alternative money systems in Boulder, and has solicited input from her varied professional circles. Here are the questions she poses about localizing community transactions: What is money? What does money do? What are certain properties … Continue reading
Marx professor David Harvey offers take on Crises of Capitalism, illustrated
CUNY Distinguished Professor David Harvey offers a 13-part online reading of Das Capital, Volume 1. But catch this mesmerizing dry- erase presentation of Harvey’s talk THE CRISES OF CAPITALISM.
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Tagged Banking, Capitalism, David Harvey, Economics, financial crisis, Marxism
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Vaneigem on energy as commodity
NMT’s in-house Situationist has been conceptualizing a way forward well expressed in this May 2009 interview of Raoul Vaneigem: “We are being “offered” biofuels on the condition we agree to transgenic rapeseed farming. Eco-tourism will accelerate the plundering of our … Continue reading
Apres nous, le Depression
If it matters what to call this financial crisis, what is it? Is America in a recession? When does a deep recession approach a depression? When is an economic crash revealed to be a collapse? Before we can rename the … Continue reading
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Tagged Economics, financial crisis, Great Depression, Great War, History, Norman, recession
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A fine mess you got us into, said the fat man to the little man
I’m convinced the economic “mess” we find ourselves in, is of the Laurel and Hardy variety. The iridescent definition of “mess” leads us to infer that our predicament-mess, results from a clutter-mess of options. To hear the parade of experts, … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged Economics, Joe the Plumber, Joe Wurzelbacher, Laurel and Hardy, Media, Politics, Sarah Palin
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The American dyslexia for economics
The interest rate for banks is down to zero. B of A and Citibank are still charging 39%. What again does economic news have to do with me? The biggest news on the economy was BREAKING NEWS a week … Continue reading
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Tagged Bank of America, Banking, Citibank, depression, Economics, Media, recession
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Uncle Tom’s Hotel Rwanda
Let’s clear something up for the sake of poetic justice. Uncle Tom was a maltreated slave who bore his burden with dignity. He was no collaborator, no stool pigeon, no upper class of black slave that kept the lower savages … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Congo, DR Congo, Economics, Film, genocide, Hotel Rwanda, Hutu, Imperialism, Indigenous, Racism, Rwanda, Tutsi, Uncle Tom
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Save the Copper Cobalt Coltan of Congo?
COpper, CObalt and COltan are among the precious resources we are sucking from the COngo. Could their names too derive from a common origin? We’re hearing suddenly of horrendous atrocities from there, although the Congolese have been suffering for over … Continue reading
Alan is shocked!!!!!
Alan Greenspan represents more than any individual anywhere, the bipartisan fact that there is no real difference between the 2 chosen parties of our corporate dictatorship here in America. Let’s fact, it… Greenspan has been the darling of both the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Greenspan, Economic Bailout Plan, economic depression, Economics, Federal Reserve, Jesus, Wall Street
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How a ‘credit crunch’ can help kick an economic depression into place
In a system…where the entire continuity of the…process rests upon credit, a crisis must obviously occur — a tremendous rush for means of payment — when credit suddenly ceases and only cash payments have validity. At first glance, therefore, the … Continue reading
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Tagged credit crunch, Economics, financial crisis, Karl Marx, Wall Street
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George Will’s vocabulary outshines him
COLORADO SPRINGS- Some people look smaller in person than they do on TV. Many of us only know George Will from newsprint, but in person he’s an organ grinder’s monkey, amusingly agile, if a little threatening, but basically smallish and … Continue reading
Posted in Local News
Tagged Big Pharma, Capitalism, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Economics, George Will, Sarah Palin, Social Security
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Global economic rapists are at it again
Why protest the G8 Summit July 7-9? Those hoodlums always look so determined. Here’s the rationale by the Emergency Exit Collective: The 2008 G8 on Hokkaido, a Strategic Assessment Emergency Exit Collective Bristol, Mayday, 2008 The authors of this document … Continue reading
Posted in Activism
Tagged Africa, Cambodia, Capitalism, China, Economics, Egypt, France, G8 Summit, Globalization, Indigenous, Islam, Japan, Media, Mexico, Military, Propaganda, Protest, Revolution, Saddam Hussein, Vietnam, Walmart
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SEIU July 17 protest of private equity
Join the Service Employees International Union, Move-On and Amnesty International to demonstrate for tax reform to curb abuse by private equity firms and buyout barons raiding our jobs and economy.
Eco-conscious, yes. Sustainable? Hardly.
The First Affirmative Financial Network may be green and may encourage eco-progressive development, but offering investors continued profits based on growing market activity is a far cry from an environmentally sustainable footprint. Continue reading
An American Socialism?
In the current housing bankruptcy “crisis” which was in fact created by the privately owned Fed through interest rates that reached 1% in 2003 combined with lax oversight of the banks, the bail out now being talked about in Congress … Continue reading
Tagged Capitalism, Corruption, Economics, Fascism, History, Justice, Propaganda, Socialism
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Death spiral economy
The fascist business model in full view, unapologetic. Unaccountable. The Democrats have no intention of changing it. They have to protect their major donors. Obama is fully backed by Wall Street capitalists. He talks the talk of reform but he … Continue reading
Tagged Capitalism, Economics, History
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Knowing we are in over our heads
One reason we have governments, for you inquiring civil libertarians, is for guidance. I can certainly think of two matters which might always evade common man’s grasp: nutrition and economics. In spite of all best efforts to educate a public, … Continue reading
Nobel Prize impostor to speak at CC
Colorado College, our evolving Neo-Liberal Arts school, has been inviting a slew of globalization advocates to intone on patriarchal economics. The latest, game theory “Cold Warrior” Thomas Schelling, will speak on Thursday, Feb. 21st. Schelling is being lauded as a … Continue reading
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Tagged Colorado College, Economics, Education, Globalization, Nobel Prize
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Will economic stimulus avoid recession?
The capitalists system is in meltdown. The apologist candidates won’t tell us what the real problems are because they were asleep at the wheel and have voted in support of and taken part in the corrupt capitalist system. They’re all … Continue reading
Tagged Capitalism, Economics, Election, History, Military
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