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November 5, 2008

Overwhelmed?

Last night’s victory by Barack Hussein Obama was history in the making. He’s the first African-American President-elect. He’s young. He’s likely to have a very unique way of doing things. And he’ll probably enjoy two terms. And election season is over.  For now. The last two months have proven to be a massive distraction for my regular work, but I’ve enjoyed following the Canadian and […]

November 5, 2008

Most Corporations Pay No Income Taxes

Time for a little fundraiser! Original story here . Now that a ‘socialist’ will be running the White House in January, the US could recoup some of the windfall profits that companies like Exxon-Mobil and Wal-Mart have been making off the backs of our hard work and put it into paying off some debts (for starters) and creating a stable middle class. Imagine that.  Do […]

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 […]

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 […]