“Stop beating the dead horse,” I was chastised when I kept paying attention to the Occupy movement beyond that sliver of attention deemed newsworthy. The movement evolved, still continues in various projects. I’ve never stopped paying attention. And for good, or really bad, reasons: the inequalities it helped reveal remain. Chris Hedges has also continued [...]
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The ‘Fix the Debt’ Coalition of the Very Wealthy: The Rest of Us Need to Pay Attention
The Fix the Debt coalition is gaining more attention, no doubt in large part because its members are being very vocal and public. They are not shy about making known their interpretation and solutions of what ails the economy. And of course, another neat crisis – replete with “fiscal cliff” and “doomsday” gamemanship – is [...]
Austerity, Imposed From the Top To Bottom: The ‘Fix the Debt’ Spin
Some information and analysis follows, as we continue considering the DC created “fiscal cliff” (for example, see Fiscal Cliff & Shared Sacrifice: If You Build It, They Will Come), the debt/deficit, austerity, shared sacrifice, and all the other spins, going on for decades, on why the tiny number of people at the very top deserve [...]
Estimated 8000 Protest Austerity in Dublin: ‘Come Back St. Patrick. It’s Still Full of Snakes’
The quote in the headline is from a sign held by one of the thousands who participated in an “anti-austerity” march in Dublin on Friday. Follow the link to The Journal article that provides details and some great photos. The demonstration, organised by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions, is protesting cutbacks ahead of the [...]
Fiscal Cliff & Shared Sacrifice: If You Build It, They Will Come
These were all built by and for those who will profit from them; our job is to come to accept what we’re told about them: deficit reduction; fiscal cliff; shared sacrifice; entitlements; Grand Bargain; austerity; disemployment (Lambert Strether’s excellent term); privatization; too big to fail. That’s just a partial list, of course. Feel free to [...]
The ‘Brilliance’ of Occupy’s Rolling Jubilee Consumer Debt Cancellation Project (VIDEO)
The “brilliant” description of the Rolling Jubilee project is from Charles Eisenstein at The Guardian. At The Nation, Pat Garofalo introduces the initiative this way: Members of Occupy Wall Street — various branches of which have recently been saving families from foreclosure and aiding victims of Hurricane Sandy — have launched a new initiative. Coined [...]
Power to the Plutocracy, Austerity to the People! Or, Four More Years of Obama Being Obama
“Fiscal Cliff” has replaced “Grand Bargain” as the Elected’s and Media’s favorite term, and spin on the stories from above. The election is done, it’s a few months too early to scream about the vital importance of mid-terms in 2014, and besides: this is another made-to-scare-distract-and-direct-the-Electorate from any but the choices pre-approved by the corporate [...]
Who Holds the Electorate Accountable?
We the Electorate regularly complain, with excellent and multiple reasons, about Electeds who don’t fulfill even some sliver of campaign promises. We fairly often talk about “accountability,” about that “holding their feet to the fire” thing. It’s a kind of campaign promise in reverse, Electorate to wannabe Electeds: I’ll be watching you. If you don’t [...]
Climate Change and U.S. Weather Related Fatalities Since 9-11: 6,408
Yesterday I considered the questioned raised by Mark Hertsgaard, Can Sandy Help Jolt America Out of Climate Change Denial?. As I was thinking about this, I began wondering about another kind of catastrophic event, and the “jolt” it delivered which stays with us today: 9/11. It was a very different kind of thing, of course, [...]
‘Can Sandy Help Jolt America Out of Climate Change Denial?’
The question in the headline is posed by Mark Hertsgaard. I think it’s an excellent query. My guess as to the answer: A fairly skeptical maybe. Why do ordinary people reject “climate change”? We know why so many Electeds reject, ignore or at least minimize it: money. Which comes from those for whom they work, [...]
Lesser Evil Halloween: Grand Bargain, Corporate Suit Costumed Candidates Bringing Reign of Austerity
It’s Halloween. It’s time for things that scare us, for things that make us go perfectly still, hold our breath and listen very, very carefully for a sound of evil approaching. In election year 2012, though, it’s really not at all hard to hear the evil, or as it’s usually costumed, the “lesser evil,” since [...]
Bill Moyer’s on ‘Plutocrats: Then & Now,’ Gilded Age Comparisons
Light reading for a Saturday, perhaps as you spend one last weekend where you “summer.” Or, perhaps some entertaining background information in preparation for Monday’s third and last presidential “debate” by two people running to manage the government for the Plutocracy. From BillMoyers.com. Go to the link for a full comparison list, and to see [...]
SuperPACs and “dancing with the devil”
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. After all the words written and spoken about “Wall Street” and the “1%,” and the ties between those at the top with DC Insiders, the 2012 campaign season clearly shows that the power of that relationship remains intact. That’s not a surprise. The expectations of [...]
“Surrendering to plutocracy is not an option”
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Two Corporate Parties. Corporate Nation. Duopoly. Plutocracy. 1% and 99%. Wall Street. The Two Party Front for the Oligarchy. All point to the same general challenge: how to keep those at the very top – financially, and so in terms of political elections and governance [...]
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