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Category Archives: CAPITALISM
Will Sit / Lie Stand?
Check out this map that allows us to see which neighborhoods voted in favor of Prop L, the Sit-Lie Law. People in the Haight voted NO, even though perception is that the proposition was generated from that neighborhood. This was … Continue reading
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Creative Capitalism
Bill Gates discusses “Creative Capitalism” as an alternative to Capitalism: Example of “Creative Capitalism” in action:
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Consumerism and Climate Change
These two articles in today’s NY Times point to the core contradiction of our times: U.S. Retail Sales Post Biggest Gain in 7 Months in October As Glaciers Melt, Science Seeks Data on Rising Seas We are still judging “success” … Continue reading
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SOLUTIONS: Generosity – Giving is Receiving
THE GENEROSITY FOOTPRINT By Kathleen Reardon The Huffington Post Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “What you are speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you say.” Rave as they might about the patriotic nature of their motives, far right media … Continue reading
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Who Will Stand Up to the Superrich?
By FRANK RICH THE NEW YORK TIMES IN the aftermath of the Great Democratic Shellacking of 2010, one election night subplot quickly receded into the footnotes: the drubbing received by very wealthy Americans, most of them Republican, who tried to … Continue reading
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Sparks Meets with Bernanke and Greenspan
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The Federal Reserve is Laundering Money
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An Alternative to Cutthroat Capitalism
By Georgia Kelly HUFFINGTON POST Praxis Peace Institute (my Sonoma, CA non-profit organization) brought a group of 25 people for a 5-day seminar and tour of the Mondragón Cooperatives in the Basque region of Spain, September 13-18, 2010. There was … Continue reading
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