Random RecitalsFor there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is the slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter.
This is the breaking of a man's spirit by denying him the chance to stand as a father and as a man among other men. And this too afflicts us all. Lively LinksLinks change randomly each time the cache is refreshed. |
Article by John on January 23rd, 2010 at 6:36 pm So I can claim IT as a dependent but not have to support IT. The Pinocchio Project
Watching as the Supreme Court turns a corporation into a real live boy.
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Article by John on October 16th, 2009 at 9:24 am Bail out the rich. Fail to regulate corporations. Allow unconstrained corporate compensation agreements. Do not facilitate unionization of workers. Allow big corporations to control the media. Make free trade more important than our manufacturing industries. Ignore environmental priorities. Keep taxes low. Deficit spend on the military. Constrain health care and infrastructure expenditures. And expect things to get better. Related articles by Zemanta Les Leopold: Why Our [...]
Article by missy on July 14th, 2009 at 9:04 am It’s the best of times for Goldman Sachs, and the worst of times for the rest of us. Ironic that this news would break on Bastille Day: Goldman Sachs’ profits for the second quarter smashed Wall Street estimates and are likely to trigger a windfall for bankers. The bank, long considered the most prestigious and profitable on Wall Street, recorded net profits of $3.44bn in the [...]
Article by missy on July 9th, 2009 at 8:55 am I tried to post on this yesterday, but Li’l Kim clogged my intertoobz: July 8 (Bloomberg) — Morgan Stanley plans to repackage a downgraded collateralized debt obligation backed by leveraged loans into new securities with AAA ratings in the first transaction of its kind, said two people familiar with the sale. Morgan Stanley is selling $87.1 million of securities that it expects to receive top AAA ratings [...]
Article by John on July 2nd, 2009 at 7:21 pm Obama Blocks Dick Cheney FBI Notes Release Transparency? var wordpress_toolbar_urls = [];var wordpress_toolbar_url = “http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar/toolbar.php”;var wordpress_toolbar_oinw = “oinw”;var wordpress_toolbar_hash = “aHR0cDovL2RlbW9jcmFjeWZvcnZhbmNvdXZlci5vcmcvZ292ZXJubWVudC1hY2NvdW50YWJpbGl0eS9idXNoLWlpaS1jaGFuZ2UvPHdwdGI%2BTW9yZSBCdXNoIElJSSAmIzgyMTE7IE1vcmUgQ2hhbmdlIFdlIGFyZSBOb3QgR2V0dGluZzx3cHRiPmh0dHA6Ly9kZW1vY3JhY3lmb3J2YW5jb3V2ZXIub3JnPHdwdGI%2BRGVtb2NyYWN5IGZvciBWYW5jb3V2ZXI%3D”;
Article by missy on May 12th, 2009 at 11:12 am A “taxpayer watchdog” group calling itself Common Sense for Oregon has started buying ads on Portland radio ridiculing “free soda for prisoners” in its attempt to give the newly majority-Democrat Oregon legislature a black eye at a time when the legislature is trying to close a $4 billion budget gap. With unemployment in the state at a post-Great Depression high, and drastic cuts imminent to programs [...]
Article by John on April 22nd, 2009 at 6:03 pm Krugman has an article today, Alice in financeland, that shows how sometimes following accounting rules leads to apparent absurdities. Because of market to market accounting rules and credit default swaps he says: …Citigroup is profitable because investors think it’s failing, while Morgan Stanley is losing money because investors think it will survive. I am not making this up. This is part of the problem of “too big [...]
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