Clinging to a Bankrupt Monetary System By Eric Fry 11/15/11 Laguna Beach, California – “Europe is in one of its toughest — perhaps the toughest — hours since World War II,” German Chancellor, Angela Merkel declared yesterday. Who would argue with her? The Second World War crippled the Euro[...]
Posts Tagged ‘corporations’
November 13th, 2011 - 12:11 pm § in America
Berkeley Blog: Capitalism in a Social Democracy
This article about the Finish economy came to my attention after a lecture at TownHall. Jeff Sachs showed frightening data … the US has fallen to the bottom of the industrial, developed democracies in growth rates and, especially, in terms of upward mobility. Sachs’ argument comes do[...]
Another New Journal Challenges Elsevier’s Monopoly on Biology.
Royal Society to launch into the great wide open By Paul Jump Times Higher Education Top researchers in biology have yet another publishing option following the launch of a major open-access journal by the Royal Society. Open Biology, which will cover all areas with a molecular or cellular element[...]
November 3rd, 2011 - 9:57 pm § in America
Steve Jobs, the cartoons
Cartoon: Steve Jobs Reincarnation Cartoons by Matt Bors, Steve Breen, The passionate debate about Steve Jobs is amazing. I wonder if we are seeing the beginning of a religion? Read some of the debate here. Of course when an entrepreneur is equated to Franklin and Edison, one begins to wonder [...]
What Happened to America As The Land of Opportunity
Der Spiegel Reports: Has America Become an Oligarchy? The Occupy Wall Street movement is just one example of the sudden outbreak of tension between America’s super-rich and the “other 99 percent.” Experts now say the US has entered a second Gilded Age, but one in which hedge fund m[...]
October 28th, 2011 - 12:36 pm § in America
Music to Occupy Westlake By.
CLICKME for great music to listen to while protesting the abuses of the 1%[...]
Origins of The 99% Movement.
The first steps in the OWS movement.[...]
October 22nd, 2011 - 11:09 am § in America
The AVE Scene: Eyman’s Employer
Developer’s backing a boon to toll initiative Bellevue developer Kemper Freeman has dumped more than $1 million into Tim Eyman’s tolling initiative, which includes a provision that would ban light rail across the Interstate 90 bridge. Readmore at the Seattle Times.[...]
October 19th, 2011 - 10:04 pm § in The Ave Scene
Seattle Scene: The 99% Occupy Westlake Mall
Seattle smiles on its occupation: photos from the front , Michael Hood, Blatherwatch We perambulated the flag-wrapped Occupy Wall Street protest encampment Saturday at Seattle’s Westlake Plaza aglow with economic populism and sweet lefty righteousness. Finally the left is speaking out to and f[...]
No Free Lunch, No Cheap Drugs
Xconomy News: Weston, MA-based Biogen Idec, the largest maker of injectable treatments for multiple sclerosis, met its goals in a second clinical trial for an oral pill to treat the disease. The pill reduced flare-ups by 44 percent when taken twice per day, and by 51 percent if taken three times a[...]