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January 7, 2011

The New Congress and the Coming Class War

According to Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter, the president recently told friends, “All I want for Christmas is an opposition I can negotiate with.” Well, he had one, briefly, so long as he was willing to cave in to its demands to bust the budget with a massive gift of more than $130 billion in tax cuts to the wealthiest 2 percent of the country and the gutting of the estate tax. That cleared the decks for other “victories” and “compromises” and led to widespread insider approval of Obama’s ability to “make the system work.” Like 13-year-olds at the movies, pundits love “action,” period, never mind its consequences.

GM crops breed economic dependence, new form of slavery, says cardinal

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — If farmers in Africa had greater access to fertile, arable land safe from armed conflict and pollutants, they would not need genetically modified crops to produce food, said the head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.
Making growers reliant on proprietary, genetically modified seeds smacks of “the usual game of economic dependence,” which in turn, “stands out like a new form of slavery,” said Cardinal Peter Turkson.

10 Signs That Our Nation Is Becoming Poorer

As the middle class in America continues to be slowly wiped out, the number of working poor continues to increase. Today, nearly one out of every three families in the United States is considered to be “low income”. Millions of American families are finding that they can barely make it from month to month even with both parents working as hard as they possibly can. Blue collar American workers from coast to coast are having their wages decreased at a time when it seems like the cost of virtually every monthly bill is going up. Unfortunately, there is every indication that things are only going to get worse and that average American families are going to be financially squeezed even more in the months and years to come.

The Missing Vision for a New Economy

This is the first of a series of blogs based on excerpts adapted from the 2nd edition of Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth [1]. I wrote Agenda to spur a national conversation on economic policy issues and options that are otherwise largely ignored. This blog series is intended to contribute to that conversation. -DK
New and fortunate are those whose lives have not been directly touched by the 2008 Wall Street meltdown and its consequences. People want to understand what went wrong and how we can set it right. Yet the public commentary continues to center primarily on finger-pointing. Who knew what when? Which regulators were asleep at the switch, and why?

The Coming Hunger: Record Food Prices Put World ‘in Danger’, Says UN

Food riots, geopolitical tensions, global inflation and increasing hunger among the planet’s poorest people are the likely effects of a new surge in world food prices, which have hit an all-time high according to the United Nations.
The UN’s index of food prices – an international basket comprising wheat, corn, dairy produce, meat and sugar – stands at its highest since the index started in 1990, surpassing even the peaks seen during the 2008 food crisis, which prompted civil disturbances from Mexico to Indonesia.

Eric’s Sounds of Jazz – 01/07/11

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Love, Lust, & Laughter – 01/07/11

Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) Dr. Paul Joannides is the author of GUIDE TO GETTING IT ON! His sex guide is in its 6th edition and has been published in 12 languages. The reviews are outstanding!  For example, ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE declared, “The only …

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Truth and Freedom – 01/07/11

Powered by Podbean.com Download this episode (right click and save) “Living in Harmony with All Life: The Movement into a New Paradigm of Living” with Mark Gil  Mark discusses his founding of In Harmony in Seattle and its evolution from Organic Landscaping to work in urban agriculture, and finally the …

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Of Consuming Interest – 01/07/11

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The News Dissector – 01/07/11

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