How did an ongoing debate about how to deal with a population of 11 or so million undocumented immigrants so quickly turn into calls for mass deportation, revocation of birthright citizenship and barrier walls on our southern border? (fences are so yesterday) You could ask the current GOP front runner Donald Trump but you’re likely not to get a straight …
Ronnie Cummins – Regeneration: Global Transformation in Catastrophic Times
Where profits alone count, there can be no thinking about the rhythms of nature, its phases of decay and regeneration, or the complexity of ecosystems which may be gravely upset by human intervention…. It is not enough to balance, in the medium term, the protection of nature with financial gain, or the preservation of the environment with progress. Halfway measures …
Dave Johnson – Trump: Don’t Make Corporations Pay Their Taxes
Corporate tax dodgers will love Donald Trump’s new plan to let the corporations who don’t want to pay their taxes off the hook. But is this really the core of the Republican argument against all taxes? Republican economics has been stated a thousand ways by a thousand (always paid) voices. But the basic idea behind all the schemes has been …
Jon Lovett – Looking Backward on the Presidency of Donald Trump
“It was the terrific leader of India, Gandhi, who said, ‘First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, and then you win.’ Well we won, didn’t we?” That’s how President Donald John Trump began his inaugural address, that clear morning in January of 2017. The fact that Gandhi never said these words was among the …
Ben Norton – Racist Donald Trump Fans Allegedly Beat, Urinated on Sleeping Latino Homeless Man
Two white Boston brothers Scott J. Leader, 38, and Steve M. Leader, 30, were arrested on numerous charges of assault, indecent exposure, and more after allegedly urinating on and then beating a sleeping 58-year-old Latino homeless man because he was Latino. According to the charges, the Boston Globe reports [3], the brothers allegedly urinated on the man, punched him, and …
Ellen Brown – Trumping the Federal Debt without Playing the Default Card
“The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.” — Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan on Meet the Press, August 2011 In a post on “Sovereign Man” dated August 14th, Simon Black argued that Donald Trump may be the right man for the presidency: …
Lawrence Davidson – Explaining the Trump Phenomenon
It is really not too hard to figure out Donald Trump. The man is having fun. What we have witnessed so far is a demonstration of how a billionaire megalomaniac and narcissist has fun: having secured a national stage, he runs around and says whatever he pleases, even if it is blatantly obnoxious. If he gets positive feedback, he does …
Ask Beatty – 08.17.15
Are you in a toxic and chaotic relationship with your partner, adult child, boss, friend or family member? When is enough enough? Hear what Beatty has to say about the importance of exiting toxic relationships.
Economic Update – System Toxicity – 08.16.15
Updates on China’s currency moves, UK’S Corbyn like US Sanders, adjuncts unionize, Pepsi and Coke offer self-serving health advice, Rand Paul’s misunderstanding of economics. We answer questions about what happened to US real wages from 1974 to 2014. We analyze why no consensus about global warming, what are toxic effects of rising inequality, and role of psychologists in advertising.
Fear pervades the workplace as the culture relies on it for stimulation – Energy Stew Interview with Joan Kingsley – 08.14.15
Fear is such an easy tool to use. Just scare people enough to motivate them and they’ll become slaves to save themselves.
That might be true but it doesn’t mean they’ll do more than just try to hold onto their jobs. Morale will take a beating and all kinds of business problems will result.
Neuroscience has identified the behaviors that best kindle success. Tune into this show with one of the authors of “The Fear-Free Organization”, Joan Kingsley, to find out how business environments can be transformed.










