Usury took money from productive industries to create the mother of all unproductive speculation bubbles and made most of debtors of one kind or another.
Big Finance (well, big business, generally, to be fair) terminally corrupted our leaders in both parties.
You really believe (or think) there’s hope of a sea change?
Don’t know about you but I’m past hope.
Meanwhile, the mantra of the GOP since at least the Raygun years:
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting. — Charles Bukowski
Third part of the Times’ terrific series on workers’ compensation in New York. The corruption and venality of the employers is nearly dizzying….
Dr. Doom is hopeful… everso slightly so….
In case you know someone who needs to see this….
The music of the land of long winters…. So this is what they do for fun on those long nights….
Watch the price of freedom. They’re getting beaten for no reson other than to protect out dwindling freedom.
Whooaa! Imagine what a robot programmed with e-voting quality software could invent — something bigger than the global financial crisis?
It’s cool when professionals get together and show each other how they do it. Even Especially safecrackers.
You must see this: NSFW gardening tip from England.
It’s the commercial of the millennium!!!
Barack Obama: Lawbreaker.
This is why he hired all them RIAA attorneys for his administration: as a defense for this….
Watch: The most important music video out of the 60s (also exposing the danger of excess alcohol).
Again: We doomed?
Are we??
Freedom in the U.K.: The right of the wealthy to hide.
I agree with this 110%!!!
Not unusually, I disagree with Steve Keller: Saving the Times (to me) is more important than “saving” Darfur (from what, to be what?).
Now Steve, ask Pinch about the free Kindles for subscribers idea.
The greatest clip you’ll watch today!!! Do. Not. Delay!
God bless the jury system! Seriously. Ward Churchill is an utter idiot but this was a lynching by a frightened college which failed to stand up for, well, education.
This changes nothing, Rush; too little, too late: Drop dead!
GOP=Idiocy.
GOP=Insanity (yes, help terrorists and psychos and, oh, yes, criminals)
GOP=dementia
So maybe Big Finance loses on of its pols/enablers. Our Leaders will ensure they have the money to buy a replacement.
Out Of My Mind 