Excellent opinion from Hold Fast Blog

By Matt Browner Hamlin
Cutting Pay, Wall St. vs Main St.
October 23rd, 2009
Joe Nocera of the New York Times has an article today on Obama administration pay czar Kenneth Feinberg’s efforts to rein in top executive pay at banks bailed out by the American taxpayer. You know, a story on the novel subject of accountability [...]

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September 26, 2009
Moral Lessons of Capitalism
By Starla Immak
Capitalism teaches us to be greedy, self-centered, and to compete with others until we destroy our competition.
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The economic system that we have now rewards greed, excess, and focuses on the individual in competition with others. The system we have now highlights some very nasty traits in individuals while [...]

Dems & Repubs, both work for the same masters

Democrats joined Republicans in voting to “Defund ACORN,” yet have done nothing to stop Blackwater’s ongoing taxpayer funded crusade in Iraq and Afghanistan.
By Jeremy Scahill
Republican Congressional leaders are continuing their witch-hunt against ACORN, the grassroots community group dedicated to helping poor and working class people. This campaign now unfortunately has gained bi-partisan legislative support in [...]

5 Things the Corporate Media Don’t Want You to Know About Cannabis

AlterNet
5 Things the Corporate Media Don’t Want You to Know About Cannabis
By Paul Armentano, AlterNet
Posted on September 23, 2009
Editor’s note: Come see Paul Armentano and many other top marijuana experts and advocates in discussion at NORML’s 38th national conference taking place this week from September 24–26 in San Francisco. Click here to learn more.
Writing in [...]

Consciousness Capitalism: Corporations Are Now After Our Very Beings
By Joe Bageant, AlterNet. Posted August 1, 2009.
Capitalism has raped the resources of the world. Now corporations are left to strip human experience from life, then rent it back to us.
A few years ago, compliments of the George W. Bush administration, I got an education in political [...]

Thumbprint scanning children at school? Go past 4 minute mark for kid talking about it. I don’t have kids, so will have to ask around to see if this is true.