Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank and he can rob the world. -anon
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World Population
Engagingly illustrated:
Lord Acton Quote
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. -Lord Acton
Gathering dust
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I’ve got one of these Hero Cameras. It’s sitting next to some old books I will eventually get to reading, gathering dust…
Reading S. Jobs Biography
I’m just starting it. And it occurs to me while the author establishes the beginning of famed character and a famed time in technology:
maybe the virtue of all this access that technology provides is that we can build our own particular lives…
-more of this later
If The Occupy Wall Street Movement Has A Demand…
This could be a good one:
The orchestral swells get a little over the top. But beyond the theatrics and bad type, there is one reasonable demand to be culled. As it states again at the end: take the money out of politics. Amen to that.
Although, I’m not entirely sure the 99% are willing to put the work in to carry out and sustain such a demand.
Soft-mindedness
Soft-minded individuals are prone to embrace all kinds of superstitions. Their minds are constantly invaded by irrational fears, which range from fear of Friday the thirteenth to fear of a black cat crossing one’s path. As the elevator made its upward climb in one of the large hotels of New York City, I noticed for the first time that there was no thirteenth floor-floor fourteen followed floor twelve. On inquiring from the elevator operator the reason for this omission, he said, “This practice is followed by most large hotels because of the fear of numerous people to stay on a thirteenth floor.” Then he added, “The real foolishness of the fear is to be found in the fact that the fourteenth floor is actually the thirteenth.” Such fears leave the soft mind haggard by day and haunted by night.
The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea….
-Martin Luther King Jr.
LA might be a cool town to move to afterall
we’ll see
Occupy LA has gained the official support of the Los Angeles City Council after it unanimously approved a resolution Wednesday afternoon. It now heads to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa for his approval or veto.
The vote came after more than two hours of impassioned public comment, which a couple times included poetry and song. A handful of local banking leaders spoke up, reminding the council that they invest in the community, but the crowd was overwhelmingly in support of the nascent national movement that seeks to bring attention to and solve a number of issues surrounding jobs, banks and corporations.
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History Back and Forwards
A balanced protest from Occupy Wall Street
You are right to be indignant. The fact is the system is not working right. It is not right that we have so many people without jobs when we have so many needs that we have to fulfill. It’s not right that we are throwing people out of their houses when we have so many homeless people. Our financial markets have an important role to play. They’re supposed to allocate capital risks. But they misallocated capital, and they created risk. We are bearing the cost of their misdeeds. There’s a system where we’ve socialized losses and privatized gains. That’s not capitalism; that’s not a market economy. That’s a distorted economy, and if we continue with that, we won’t succeed in growing, and we won’t succeed in creating a just society.
-Joseph Stiglitz (Economist and Nobel Laureate, speaking to protesters in Zuccotti Park)