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Thanks for that.

Oxy Mora — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:31:29 +0000

In reply to From a Huffpo review of the

Thanks for that.

Thanks, Arc. I thought it was

Oxy Mora — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:28:42 +0000

In reply to Love the review, AA, thank

Thanks, Arc. I thought it was a real stretch at first but eventually hog tied it. Thanks for noticing.

welcome no doubt we will be

artappraiser — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:32:14 +0000

In reply to Love the review, AA, thank

welcome no doubt we will be seeing more from the book soon.

Love the review, AA, thank

arc400 — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:24:59 +0000

In reply to From a Huffpo review of the

Love the review, AA, thank you.

To Oxy Mora, I thought the Steve Jobs tie-in was powerful. Sorry more people did not respond to that angle of your piece.

I've valued your occupy-log. Always look forward to the next installment. Respect.

From a Huffpo review of the

artappraiser — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 05:51:12 +0000

In reply to Moral authority and changes in perceptions.

From a Huffpo review of the official Steven Jobs biography which is coming out in a couple days; just thought you'd be interested:

Jobs' Meeting With Obama

Jobs, who was known for his prickly, stubborn personality, almost missed meeting President Obama in the fall of 2010 because he insisted that the president personally ask him for a meeting. Though his wife told him that Obama "was really psyched to meet with you," Jobs insisted on the personal invitation, and the standoff lasted for five days. When he finally relented and they met at the Westin San Francisco Airport, Jobs was characteristically blunt. He seemed to have transformed from a liberal into a conservative.

"You're headed for a one-term presidency," he told Obama at the start of their meeting, insisting that the administration needed to be more business-friendly. As an example, Jobs described the ease with which companies can build factories in China compared to the United States, where "regulations and unnecessary costs" make it difficult for them.

Jobs also criticized America's education system, saying it was "crippled by union work rules," noted Isaacson. "Until the teachers' unions were broken, there was almost no hope for education reform." Jobs proposed allowing principals to hire and fire teachers based on merit, that schools stay open until 6 p.m. and that they be open 11 months a year.

I understand your point about

Oxy Mora — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:04:01 +0000

In reply to It's not so much that I see

I understand your point about the invasive and ubiquitous nature of corporations. Like you, I consider places like the White Mountains sacred, and the thought of corporate logo's turns my stomach. And what you suspect, more invasiveness, would probably be the trade off, sooner or later. So I may have to go back to the drawing board on this point. But I think we need a way to change perceptions of corporate responsibility, other than to pay taxes, and reaffirm the fact that it is communities who support corporations not the other way around. And when communities are hurting, corporations flush with cash need to give back. I think there was a day when corporations were more in touch with communities they serve and we need to get back to that equilibrium. Perhaps there is a way to do the infrastructure bank without incurring the liabilities you well describe.

Socialist.

kyle flynn — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:59:04 +0000

In reply to It's not so much that I see

Socialist.

It's not so much that I see

Dan Kervick — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:39:47 +0000

In reply to Thanks, Dan. And by the way,

It's not so much that I see the infrastrcture bank as being contolled by corporations, Oxy, but that the whole purpose of the bank is to subsidize the private sector construction - and ownership - of infrastructure projects that, to my mind, ought to be owned by the public. I don't want up to drive to the White Mountains on the Caterpiller Bulldozer National Highway and pay them five bucks a pop to look at disgusting product placements painted all over the pavement.

I sick to death of neoliberalism and the privatization and commericalization of everything. I want the good people of my state and my country to get back in the business of building things, and owning and operating the things they build. I would be perfectly happy to have the Caterpiller company contracted to help build the highway for the people of the United States or the people of New Hampshire. Then once they finish the job, they get paid and go home, an we the people take over from there - operating our own highway, thank you very much.

Pat Buchanan puts a face on

Oxy Mora — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:25:55 +0000

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Pat Buchanan puts a face on the Tea Party. This group looks at Barack Obama and multiculturalism and a mean and ugly streak comes out. Because they are scared. Scared their world view and their place in the world is coming to an end. And OWS ties into this because the banks and Wall St., the overgrown corporations, the concentration of wealth--all of it is the bed rock of a system which necessarily has to change as surely as we are here on this earth tonight. The only question is how fast the change will take place. We have reached the logical end of the accumulation of capital. It's as if the game has been won. O.K., clear the monopoly board, let's begin again. But we can't clear the board and we really can't in any realistic sense start the system over. The system isn't broken. The system needs to be fixed. What's happening in OWS is that we are asking the questions of why are we in this impasse, this inequality of wealth and opportunity. I am trying to ask the same questions. Why are corporations allowed to hoard cash and not invest unless it is is their immediate self interest? How are they so removed from community that they cannot make the extra effort in time of crisis? What makes any corporaation so revered that it is exempt from its duty to the communities which support it? Why is Ben Bernanke not jeered off the stage when in professorial tones he explains that the tools for maintaining financial stability are now being elevated to the same status as tools for executing monetary policy. He sounds as if he could be talking in the mid 1930's. It shouldn't have to be this way. We need to exert moral authority and begin to see changes which an alien, just visiting the planet might say, well that makes sense. How come you are just now thinking about it?

hahahahahahah God I hate

Richard Day — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:04:39 +0000

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hahahahahahah

God I hate these people!

Isn't that a shame?

The elite (not intellectual elites but the monied elites) control everything; control the trading of shares, control the MSM, control the election machines, control the propaganda machines...

There is nothing left until the folks yell out their windows:

I am mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore.

Which is a meaningless statement.

I mean everybody is mad as hell and feigns to state that they will not take it anymore!

I was reading Walsh who has nailed Buchanan.

She simply has written something that I have written for three years. Buchanan is a racist of the first order and would decimate the 'lower' racists at any point.

Buchanan has actually stated that Brown vs the Board of Ed is the single worst Supreme Court Decision(s) in the history of man.

Buchanan is at least honest in that he makes his racism directly like rush. I mean it is all Bwack the Magic Negro.

They do not care anymore.

The issue surrounds the end of European White property held controlled pricks in this country.

http://politics.salon.com/2011/10/19/pat_buchanan_declares_defeat/singleton

Pat has a way of proposing that only the White Mercantile Class were involved in the creation of this country, and I agree!