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the future
November 4, 2008

A New ‘Platform’: Idealist.org

i signed up with idealist.org last week and will likely start using it a lot more in the coming weeks to promote a number of initiatives that I’m working on, as well as work with others to develop visibility for their products and/or services. Idealist is a pretty comprehensive activist and social network.  The number of people using the site ranks in the tens of […]

disaster capitalism economics The Corporation
November 4, 2008

Free markets fail

Duncan Cameron of rabble.ca discusses in this article how the free market has, and continues to, fail us. I copied the following: … price setting is not politically neutral after all. The market does not abolish power relationships: it facilitates the accumulation of market power in fewer and fewer corporate hands. The accumulation of economic power leads straight to the concentration of political power and […]

Politics
November 4, 2008

The Night of the Shredders and Black Markers

Obama will win the US election.  I know he will.  I hope he will. There’s still the outside chance that pre-programmed electronic voting will steal it from him, at which point, there will be a complete meltdown in the US. However, I remain cautiously optimistic that his margin of lead is so broad that not even Rovian corruption can steal this election from the man […]

corruption Politics
November 3, 2008

McCain Camp Resorts to SPAM in the 11th Hour

I couldn’t believe it when I saw it. I had to test the link, despite the perils of following links offered in spam email. It directed me to johnmccain.com. And so it seems that the McCain camp, in the last 24 hours of the US election campaign, has resorted to a new low: SPAM . Claims that Obama was a terrorist weren’t enough.  The evils […]