Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Ever put a fortune into a company and then not know it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pSkLw6UvpaM In the CNN Thursday debate, Mitt Romney claimed he had no idea of his investment involving Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. When confronted by Newt Gingrich over the fact that Romney poured 100s [...]
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The Rahm Emanuel way, and the Occupy way, to get ready for the Chicago G8 / NATO Summit
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. This May Chicago will host a summit already attracting the attention of Wall Street-ers and Occupiers both. Preparations are being made. First, from the Occupied perspective, via Adbusters: Against the backdrop of a global uprising that is simmering in dozens of countries and thousands of [...]
What Americans Think About Wealth & Romney
Mitt Romney has pulled ahead in Florida. However, his long slog hasn’t even begun with the American people. Romney finally released his tax returns on Thursday, revealing a 2010 income of $27 million and a federal tax rate of 13.9%. What effect, if any, does this information have on the way voters judge Romney? [...]
Jacksonville is Mittville
A Palestinian Republican? Check. A question about the candidate’s wives, none of whom actually work, which is a much different circumstance than 99% of the families in this country. The words “manufacturing” and “blue collar” weren’t uttered until Rick Santorum said them at the end of the debate. Mitt Romney has a new debate coach [...]
The 0.1% at WEF are talking about jobs, taxes and a “crisis of leadership”
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. I included something about this yesterday, but it’s worth further consideration. One take on the World Economic Forum, from the originators of the Occupy Wall Street movement, Adbusters, “Capitalisms’ Cinderella’s Ball”: This years’ World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, marks the start of the [...]
U.S. News & World Report: Time for a Tea Party of the Left, by Taylor Marsh
First published in U.S. News & World Report President Obama takes his base for granted on issues like the Bush tax cuts, Plan B, and the economy Here we are at the beginning of Pres. Obama’s reelection and what do we find? The Bush tax cuts that, back in 2008, candidate Obama pledged he’d fight [...]
Nobody is Buying Obama’s Financial Fraud Unit
After watching parts of the “analysis” of Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz on Pres. Obama’s State of the Union Speech, the access parade on MSNBC obviously saw something I didn’t. I turned to CNN. Realizing that emotions work with audiences of these events, with approval of Obama’s speech sky high, it’s hard for the average [...]
Wish I had some magic answers, but hard work will have to do
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. If you aren’t a Harry Potter fan, then “Expect Us Patronum” won’t make sense. Let’s just say it’s a reference to a spell, Expecto Patronum, which provides a defense, and repels the bad guys. Seeing the clever take-off made me laugh, then made me wistfully [...]
File This Under Predictable
It comes from Fox and nobody should be surprised. It won’t help Mitt Romney win the nomination, because he’s having so much trouble explaining himself I’m not sure anything can at this point, but it does give you an idea of the demagoguing on Romney’s wealth. It also is illustrative for why many Americans are [...]
Obama says it’s “make or break” time: What’s your choice?
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Time limited political campaigns as usual are a much easier sell than indefinite work of activism, but you get what you pay for. Or more accurately, if you go the politics as usual route, you get what major donors pay for. In spite of denials [...]
How Many Democratic Millionaires Pay 10% to their Church or Charity?
The Wall Street Journal got an early peek at Mitt Romney’s tax returns. I wonder how many conservative Christians gave over 10% to their church in 2010. How many Democratic millionaires gave that much to their church or their favorite charity? Did Mitt Romney abuse the tax code? No, it’s made for him. Newt Gingrich [...]
Gringrich Taps the Wingnut Zeitgeist
So I’m happy to be in the tradition of Ronald Reagan as the outsider who scares the Republican establishment and frankly after the mess they’ve made of things maybe they should be shaken up pretty badly. And one of the things the Florida voters get to decide is do you want the establishment’s candidate, Governor [...]
A “Wall Street Fraternity” parties like they have money to waste
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. “What kind of person would waste their time Occupying?” I heard that question recently, and today, I’m providing some answers, mostly by way of photos. But first, for some context and contrast, a story about the recent exclusive “Wall Street fraternity,” Kappa Beta Phi’s, black-tie [...]
Financial Shenanigans Amid Gingrich-Romney War
It’s happy days on Wall Street, while main street struggles on. In the Obama era, like the Bush era, Wall Street is an alternate financial reality. While the political world is riveted on Newt Gingrich’s win in South Carolina and his surge in Florida, there is an intense battle going on over holding banks accountable [...]
Where Davos Meets Dueling Narratives on Possible Bank Deal
The idea was to get a settlement with these banks that could bring in billions of dollars in aid for hundreds of thousands of troubled homeowners who’d been served faulty foreclosure documents, some of them including forged signatures. But the shape of this agreement disturbed Schneiderman. He said banks were looking for a release from [...]
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