What happens to countries whose principal unfair competitive advantage is lowest cost labor willing to accept minimal living and working conditions IF they suffer a major population die off from a pandemic? Consider the possibility of a pandemic in combination with inadequate water supplies for soils utterly depleted by industrial agriculture? The soils problem becomes [...]
Recently, I noticed increasing instances where pundits and leaders on the Raght have vigorously advocated for the protection of “life, liberty and property”. I first heard that phrasing by Glenn Beck. Then I noticed it several times in several different Fox sNooze segments. Then in some of the tea-party speeches. (I sometimes like to get [...]
In the Depression era, a question was posed: Are you for the Money or the People? Today, we need to reflect on the lack of meaningful change and the seemingly unchangeable ancien regime of 20th century America. The Boston Globe ran a front page story on how Corporations invested $100 million per month for ten [...]
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John Gray’s current essay in The New Statesman is a strong argument for inventing Modern Era 2.0. “… The reality, which is that western power is in retreat nearly everywhere, is insistently denied. Yet the rise of China means more than the emergence of a new great power. Its deeper import is that the ideologies [...]
It’s long overdue for We, the [human] People, to retake control of our government and governance – at least in those states that have the direct democracy option of the ballot initiative. This is a first-draft proposal for a ballot initiative, stated for my home-state, but equally applicable to other states: In the State of [...]
On Tuesday, the Obama administration issued its Open Government Directive. It calls on Federal Agencies to publish data that had not been previously available and to use open formats that can be more easily downloaded, searched and analyzed. It also called on Federal Agencies to create portals, in the form, http://www.agency.gov/open and http://www.whitehouse.gov/open is up [...]
If we cannot provide public educational excellence to our own citizens, nor universal healthcare, nor rebuild cities such as Detroit, nor sustain a robust Main Street, nor provide meaningful, well paying jobs to all who want them, how can we be expected to provide any of these basics foundations of a civil society to anyone [...]
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