Capital in the 21st Century: Thomas Piketty (tags)
"There is no escaping the fact, however, that social science research on the distribution of wealth was for a long time based on a relatively limited set of firmly established facts together with a wide variety of purely theoretical speculations."
What do we do with the Unemployed? (tags)
It's a simple question, but....?
THE MOST BIG THIEFS IN THE HISTORY OF URUGUAY (tags)
WHATS HAPPEND IN URUGUAY. THE MOST BIG ROBBERY TO THE BANK OF MONTEVIDEO TO THE SAVE MONEY PEOPLE AND THE GOVERNEMENT MAKE NOTHING??????? WHAT DO THE CENTRAL BANK IN URUGUAY TO STOP THIS??? ITI IS CORRECT THAT THE POLITICAL PERSONS THERE IN THE GOVERNEMENT OF JORGE BATLLE WAS DOING THE BEST JOB OR ARE GUILTY IN THE CHARGE OF FRAUD.
Market analyst Bill Bonner, a man whom I normally have a great deal of respect for, (www.dailyreckoning.com) wrote recently that intelligent people don't take to the streets and demonstrate. But I would put to him, if I could but bend his ear, just how else do you bring broad attention to your cause when the mainstream press is corporate controlled? And after all, even if we had a free press these days, only a small per centage of the population reads? And what do you do when you write to your elected representatives till you're blue and you receive stock answers by way of reply, reeking of form letter?
Money + Media = Mind Manipulation (tags)
During the election of 2000, Katherine Harris, the Florida secretary of state under Jeb Bush, ordered the removal of 90,000 names from the voter roles because they were convicted felons; but not really. These people were Black. The eliminated voters’ race appears on the disqualifying list that was obtained and reported by Greg Palast in The Guardian. The story ran in Europe, South America and Canada. Palast maintains that he published the story within weeks of the election, but it did not appear until seven months after the election in the Washington Post.
What Do the Imperial Mafia Really Want? (tags)
Which is the more remarkable -- that the United States can openly announce to the world its determination to invade a sovereign nation and overthrow its government in the absence of any attack or threat of attack from the intended target? Or that for an entire year the world has been striving to figure out what the superpower's real intentions are?
Inglewood: What Do You Think? (tags)
This funny piece was swiped from The Onion
What's the true State of the Union? (tags)
Bush told us his version of the State of the Union on Tuesday - what do you think?
Here's some questions for the nazis (tags)
I've been reading the various posts by the nazis, and now have several questions that I was hoping some of them could try to answer.
Justice is a Matter of Balance (tags)