Vermont's Senator Bernie Sanders, using recently released facts & analysis showing the further increase in income / asset / tax disparity between the richest 1% of Americans now taking home 23+% of all "earnings," rails against enormous inequalities in US economics.
Great speechifying! And as America's only self-declared Socialist Senator that's somewhat to be expected.
But when will Reid, Pelosi & Obama get some friggin' SPINE?!?
Watch his inspiring video here.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Fairness as a Point of View....
"Our differing notions of fairness is one of the biggest causes of the divide facing the United States today. And yet, a better understanding of fairness may just well be the bridge that helps heal our country."
Excellent essay on Fairness by Gideon Rosenblatt on his blog AlchemyOfChange.net
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
U.S. Income Inequality Grows?
Our Banana Republic
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
The richest 1 percent of Americans now take home almost 24 percent of income, up from almost 9 percent in 1976. As Timothy Noah of Slate noted in an excellent series on inequality, the United States now arguably has a more unequal distribution of wealth than traditional banana republics like Nicaragua, Venezuela and Guyana.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Palestinians Denied Rights to Shelter in West Bank
Nick Kristof from the NY Times questions how this ongoing lack of basic fairness serves Israel in any way long-term besides generating hatred.
Short Video report click here.
Why does Israel do this ongoingly?
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Perfectly Flawed: Tigers' Pitcher Armando Galarraga is Robbed of Perfect Game by Incompetent Ump Jim Joyce Game
Bleacher Report story tells it all: Perfectly Flawed: Jim Joyce Robs Armando Galarraga, Tigers of Perfect Game
Join the Facebook page to see if this injustice (in pro sports, mind you) can be righted and / or video replay can finally be used in MLB:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Galarraga-got-robbed/122089564495820?ref=search&sid=RifkLfvu9Mox_MtvZvYjCg.3560830506..1&v=wall
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
TechCrunch Hacker Identified: You Decide If We Press Charges
What would justice look like if we all got to decide if legal charges would be pressed against others for more than personal issues, community, commerce - even continental?
Cool if geeky example is "TechCrunch Hacker Identified: You Decide If We Press Charges"
Cool if geeky example is "TechCrunch Hacker Identified: You Decide If We Press Charges"
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