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POPS"Undercover Boss"Indicating Culture Shift? It may be all for naught, however, if this does not also serve as a mirror to all players, eliciting their inner humanity and sense of fair "play" and self-regulation and as new possibilities of letting the reward for those attributes begin to rival the payoff elicited by greed and what they might be able to get away with when nobody's looking. Or we will have dim alternatives - limiting of our freedom and destructive to the individual spirit of us all.
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POPSEndgame (1) I am reading 'The Ecotechnic Future' by John Michael Greer, who likes to take long term views and consistently argues that transitional change is a gradual process which will have to be dealt with over a generation or two. Recently, the good Druid has become increasingly alarmed by systemic risks in the short term.
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POPSObama's Strategy of Manufactured Crisis [understanding what makes him tick] Not NEW but bears repeating!!! Obama mentors Cloward-Piven; their strategy -- to create political, financial, and social chaos that would result in revolution blended Alinsky concepts with their more aggressive efforts at bringing about A CHANGE in U.S. government. To achieve their revolutionary change, Cloward and Piven sought to use a cadre of aggressive organizers assisted by friendly news media to force a re-distribution of the nation's wealth. -- Wake up to our RADICAL President America! - Read the full article on American Thinker.
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POPSOBAMA RECRUITING RADICALS IN HIGH SCHOOL
And what will these “interns” be force-fed? The mother’s milk of the left — anti-war agitation, anti-capitalism, Marx, Lenin, Ayers, LGBT agenda promotion, global warming, pro-jihad, and illegal immigration. For starters. Maybe “Ellie Light,” who has in the last few weeks published the same Letter to the Editor supporting and defending Obama in over a dozen newspapers across the country, can give lessons in astroturfing. The form carries a recommended reading list, including Rules for Radicals by the notorious hard left community organizer and Obama mentor Saul Alinsky; two Huffington Post articles by Zack Exley, “The New Organizers” and “Obama Field Organizers Plot a Miracle.” The first of those, published in October 2008, enthuses about “an insurgent generation of organizers” inside the Obama campaign that has, “almost without anyone noticing … built the Progressive movement a brand new and potentially durable people’s organization, in a dozen states, rooted at the neighborhood
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POPS'Capitalism is evil … you have to eliminate it' Michael Moore can't be accused of being bashful. I clipped this segment from the article because FDR really did sound like a socialist and those that reticule Obama need to compare the rhetoric. Moore is always interesting to me.
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POPS About Last Night OK, some right reax. NRO: Obie misrepresents the Citizens United decision. It’s HotAir’s Obamateurism of the Day. Turns out the decision doesn’t give the farm away to foreign corporations. Hannity and Palin think it will be a “huge takeaway moment.” I dunno, I kinda doubt it. People have been letting him get away with misrepresenatations for a couple of years now. I think the huge takeaway is going to be the continued flailing and inability to accomplish anything. HotAir has AP’s 10 Whoppers and then adds the ones AP missed. Gateway lifts the rock on the SOTU job claims, finds “crony capitalism.” $100 m for 15 jobs and a Dem donor’s company. Sorry, I missed that when I was busy mocking all the public sector hack jobs he saved. Hyscience dozed off, but saw enough to rate an A on chutzpah and Fs on non-partisanship and substance. Gerson, WaPo, scathingly: President Obama’s primary problem is not rhetorical " though, about an hour into the State of The Union
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POPSUCI Anesthesiology Establish rigorous fiscal practices to bring the department to profitability thereby allowing for the generation and support of exceptional clinical, educational and research initiatives.
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POPSHow quickly we forget! This Bill Moyers interview with Thomas Frank of the Wall Street Journal discusses how short the collective memory of Americans can be. It even talks about the sacred cows of capitalism and the deep distrust of government.
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POPSThe meaning of network culture "Digital culture, he observes, is fundamentally based on a process of abstraction that reduces complex wholes into more elementary units. Tracing this process of abstraction to the invention of the typewriter, Gere identifies digitization as a key process of capitalism."
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POPSthe Economist asks; what is the role of the state? Title: 'Leviathan stirs again' The Economist, Jan 21st 2010. An article that covers a lot of ground, however it does produce a reasoned argument that is thought-provoking. The conclusion "Obama’s question of whether 'government works' without first asking...some more fundamental questions about what the state should be doing and what...", this must also include and how, "...it should be leaving well alone..." is probably the biggest question for this new decade.
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POPSThe Context Of Middle-Class Frustration
.... because bad people were in charge of them..... the President gave this as his reason for pushing so forcefully for his health-care takeover plan: "....... The reason I tackled healthcare wasn’t because this was my personal hobbyhorse. The reason I tackled it was during the course of the campaign, I traveled all across this country and I kept on hearing heart-breaking stories about families who were bankrupt because they got sick..... It doesn’t matter if this is his sincere belief, spoken straight from the heart. His health-care plan was still an awful idea that united the country in opposition against the increasingly thuggish and arrogant methods he used to advance it. Those methods are integral to the collectivist enterprise. It will always become thuggish and arrogant, because when all virtue resides in the State, those who oppose the growth of the State become villains by definition. Consider the President’s assessment of his Republican opponents:
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POPSBrown's Election 'Deliberate, Pre-Meditated Murder' of Health Care Reform My chat with Nicole Gelinas, part one Jan 14, 2010 financial regulatory reform | Nicole Gelinas I recent sent a few email questions to Nicole Gelinas, author of the phenomenal must-read, must-own After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street and Washington . Her answers were so thorough and valuable that I could not bring myself to cut them much. So I am running a question or two a day for the next several days. Enjoy! Reuters.com blogs: http://bit.ly/8ttMbn http://twitter.com/JimPethokoukis
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POPS10 reasons Obama is failing 95 million investors I hope someone is at least listening to the "dissenting" views and is trying to assess their merits and incorporate some of the better critical suggestions, as opposed to just waiting for their turn to repeat their own (party) views.
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POPS'Shadow Elite': War And The Deadly Privatization Of Public Power For example, for several years the Department of Defense has circumvented Congressionally-mandated limits on the size of the armed forces by privatizing those forces' functions. Today, battlefield strength in both Iraq and Afghanistan is roughly doubled by the presence of private contractors. Indeed, without the hundreds of thousands of private contractors working for the government, the U.S. could not sustain its wars in either Iraq or Afghanistan. One clear outcome of this privatization of public power, besides the doubling of battlefield strength, is the increasing ease with which the executive branch has usurped the power to make war from the legislative branch where men such as Washington, Madison, and Franklin clearly placed it. This executive facility for making war means more war as well, as Madison, "the father of the Constitution," so eloquently warned more than two centuries ago.
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POPSTQ | Will Google survive in China? The photo and caption are just the latest in a series of stories about the operational and philosophical shortcomings of the relationship between Google and the government of China. Why is Google having these issues with the world's most populous nation? Is China really ready for capitalism as practiced by Google? ___ SOURCE | http://google.twi.bz/4x ___ SEARCH | http://google.twi.bz/5x ___ iWeb Blogger | TQ: TruthTODAY | TRIVIATomorrow | http://me.twi.bz/u ALTACITIES | http://altacities.com | http://me.twi.bz/X Help us reach 1,234 subscribers by 5:06 pm (7 sec) on 8-9-10 Matching the numerical sequence 12345678910 Details here | http://me.twi.bz/f ___ 224 | A2G | Today, Tomorrow, Forever | According to Google
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POPSOh those evil, evil Americans..... " - Denmark has donated 10 million kroner ($1.9 million) and Finland is giving euro1.25 million ($1.8 million). - South Korea has pledged aid worth $1 million. - Irish telecommunications company Digicel said it would donate $5 million and help repair the phone network. - Spain has pledged euro3 million ($4.37 million), and sent rescue teams and 100 tons of equipment. - Germany gave euro1.5 million ($2.17 million) and sent an immediate response team. - India and China will each donate $1 million." YAY Ireland, damn fine donation considering the size of this country and the recent economic crisis.
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POPSWhat I'd like to say to the banking industry... Look, i'm all for free markets and capitalism. I think the government needs to stay out of business as much as possible. But when you go to the government hat in hand seeking a bazillion dollar handout, don't then cry foul when the government asks you to shoulder a disproportionate share of the burden (that was largely caused by your reckless behavior). I, like most people, blame the banking industry for the economic collapse that has impacted all of us. The fact that you have so quickly got your game back on should be prompting you to thank the American people for saving your sorry asses and feeling eager to do what you can to return the favor. Stop bitching and start helping.
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POPSOne-Dollar-One-Vote? I hope not! Good grief, this is a scary thought. This is what will happen if conservatives get their "smaller government".
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POPSNo greater evil As of now, they are operating in the open; all that remains, truly, is for them to lay claim to the brand "communist." Whether the individual far-left zealot in America is stupid, deluded or evil, the end game shall play out in the same manner: It will result in a society in which an unproductive, mediocre, larcenous few squeeze everyone else for their profit and pleasure. Our current president is one of those few. This is indeed sad, for, in addition to the groundbreaking nature of his presidency, Barack Obama is obviously a gifted man. He could have actually accomplished something meaningful with his life; instead, he has dedicated that life – from early on, mind you – to destroying the greatest nation, and people, that has ever come along. Can you think of a greater evil?
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POPSThe Kondratiev Wave Kondratiev compared the capitalist economy to the cycles of the seasons. He explained that capitalism can never fail because it has a natural mechanism for growth and advancement in that the failure of businesses leads to regrowth, like the rebirth of spring after winter. It is constantly being renewed. He explained that a planned economy could not consider or plan for every variable and that the act of the State propping up failures would have a catastrophic effect on the overall health of a nation's economy. Of course, we all know now that the Left knows this and that is the purpose for their intentional crisis creation. (see Cloward-Piven). Then, Stalin had him executed.
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POPSThe Peace Dividend: Myth and Reality Despite America's fiscal recklessness in the 1980s, the sudden end of the cold war has provided the nation at least a modest opportunity to improve its economic health without raising taxes or cutting already anemic social spending. The nation has wasted such opportunities in the past, notably after Viet Nam. It could all too easily squander its savings again. Washington should provide leadership on this issue, not pliancy to every special-interest group. The worst outcome would be for the U.S. to beat its swords into more credit cards.
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