Daily Topics - Wednesday October 5th, 2011
By shawnt56
Hour One: Republicans...no jobs bill, no safety net, no regulations...no! no! no!
Hour Two: American exceptionalism and Occupy Wall Street - Dan Gainor, Business and Media Institute
Hour Three: The Magic of Reality - Professor Richard Dawkins
Comments
#2
Right-wing news and punditry is trying to paint the Occupy Wall Street protesters as extremely left-wing, because they're worried that the original TEA Party people (the ones with actual populist concerns) will join them.
#3
Taschreyer, are you saying the financiers think Wall Street is the real world, or that the protesters think Wall Street is the real world? I would like to think you meant the financiers, but they weren't mentioned in the quote, so "these guys" should logically refer to the protesters.
#4
I was astounded by something on The Colbert Report recently. Stephen was going through a simple procedure to allow his super PAC to keep its donors secret. His lawyer said that a corporation might donate only to this kind of PAC so that it can keep its its donations secret from the public and its shareholders. I can't believe a corporation's board and CEO can keep any financial action from its shareholders. If we could fix that, then the secret donation process would be virtually ineffective.
Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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Hello All
Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
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At Mondragon - both the mountain and the cooperative city - in Spain (written about in "Threshold" book)
From Unequal Protection, 2nd Edition:
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Similar to Trump quote Thom shared this morning:
Hi Thom,
I just received an investment newsletter (free -- I receive several) today that commented on the Occupy Wall St. movement. It offers the following advice to the protestors -- Put down your signs! Fire your broker! Take responsibility for your own investments!!!"
These guys have NO CLUE what is happening in the real world. They think that Wall Street is the real world!