It is better to be an outcast, a stranger in one’s own country, than an outcast from one’s self. It is better to see what is about to befall us and to resist than to retreat into the fantasies embraced by a nation of the blind.
Chris Hedges

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Assange undresses the Occupiers

Can there be any doubt the Occupy movement has been co-opted and infiltrated by cointelpro? Assange is brilliant as an interviewer. His questions make these self-appointed leaders in the social movement squirm as he exposes them for another set of elites positioning themselves for immortality and their own professorships and television shows. Too much. Made me sick to watch this collection of spokes persons: The pinstriped-hoodie, the smudged eye shadow, the newest Bond man, the gay couple. In a movement without leaders, who - and by what method were they chosen? These people were right out of central casting. Incredible.

Sunday, May 06, 2012

Monday, April 30, 2012

Banks target vulnerable

BANKS are using predatory tactics to target customers with financial products when they are most vulnerable, leaving customers in greater debt, a new report has found. Banks and other financial institutions have spent up to $200 million each creating customer databases by drilling into personal credit card transactions so they can predict when financially stretched customers might be more susceptible to offers of increased credit limits, insurance, education or superannuation funds and investment products. http://www.theage.com.au/national/banks-target-
vulnerable-customers-20120428-1xruy.html

Friday, April 27, 2012

Lotte - To age 12

This is an amazing video that I saw on Naked Capitalism

Thursday, April 05, 2012

Wednesday, April 04, 2012

Modern Money Theory and Private Banks

Guns and Butter "Modern Money Theory and Private Banks" with Stephanie Kelton and Michael Hudson at the economic Summit On Modern Money Theory in Rimini, Italy. Functional finance; business cycle; real costs of unemployment; sovereign currency versus fixed exchange rates and the gold standard; macroeconomic policy; fiscal policy; vulture banks; Latvia as the standard for Europe under neoliberalism. Original Link
Guns and Butter - March 28, 2012 at 1:00pm

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