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• Flow Diagram: Joomla... (443) 0000-00-00 There is a link to the flow-chart on this page. The page walks you through the flow-chart verbally. This is a good reference for debugging when your Joomla site's "front end" pages have warning or error messages BEFORE even the header of your request web site's page is rendered on your browser.
• Social Media: Using Facebook... (555) 0000-00-00 Edy Alvarez of the California Green Party produced a Facebook "note page" entitled: "Employing Facebook Groups In Order To Build Critical Mass for The Green Party From The Comfort Of Your Couch (How-to Guide)." Any U.S. state's Green Party can benefit from adopting this social media tactic.
• Social Media: Tools to help... (610) 0000-00-00
• Shareaholic Browser and Web... (521) 0000-00-00 To facilitate easier cross-posting of information to web sites, Shareaholic.com has a free "browser plugin." People can download and auto-magically install the plugin in their web browser program in less than a minute. Web sites, e.g. CAGreenIDEAS.org and CAGreens.org, can download and install a similar Shareaholic web site tool which distributes user posts to the target web site also to 1+ additional web sites, perhaps with "similar user demographics" and interests. As of 11.12.09, I (jgw) have not yet user-tested either cross-posting tool.
• NYT: Gary Hart: Behind the... (679) 0000-00-00 Former California Senator, disgraced candidate for President, now Dr. Gary Hart, wrote this lesson about the real politique of party coalition building in the Friday 11.12.16 New York Times.
• The Campaigns and Elections... (612) 0000-00-00 I (jgw) don't yet know where the Campaigns and Elections magazine comes down politically. However, I think it is a magazine for political consultants to the Duopoly Party. In that case it is trying to be a "thought leader" to their status quo thinking and their decades-old standard operating procedures those consultants recommend for the campaigns they consult. Lao Tsu's "Tao of War" says (paraphrasing): "Know your enemy." As in: anticipate their moves before they do. Gandhi would then have us "weaken the enemy's resolve to attack and defeat us" by pointing out with compassion our common goals and dreams.
• The Winning Campaigns web site (511) 0000-00-00 The Winning Campaigns web site heading says they are about presenting the "Winning strategies, services and products for political campaign management, (political) advocacy, and (successful) governmental and public affairs." Words in parentheses () are mine, jgw.
• Joomla 1.5 Tutorials (649) 0000-00-00
• JA: The Pros and Cons of... (758) 0000-00-00 As of April 2013, the JoomlaArts.com web site has had this article comparing the technical differences of the several existing Template Framework Systems with which state-of-the-art template designer-builders are creating more amazing, powerful and flexible templates for Joomla web sites. Interestingly for the future of CMS web site design and building, the emergence of template frameworks beginning about 2005 promises to make possible transporting templates or themes between very different types of Content Management Systems.

2010 Nov. 2 California Election Results (weblinks)

• CalSOS: Past Election... (463) 0000-00-00 The web site for the California Secretary of State web-publishes the state-wide and by-county election results from past elections here.

2011 Nov. 8 Misc. Election Results (weblinks)

• NYT: Ohio Repeals Anti-Union... (438) 0000-00-00 Election day, Nov. 8, 2011, the New York Times reported that voters in Ohio repealed a law limiting union rights to bargain collectively. The conservative Ohio legislature had passed the law in March 2011. A similar bill passed in Wisconsin.
• NYT: Mississippi Rejects... (473) 0000-00-00 Election day 11.11.08, Mississippi citizens rejected the "life begins at conception" anti-abortion initiative on the ballot. KGO-TV news, San Francisco, said the rejection reduced the chance of a U.S. Supreme Court challenge of existing abortion rights legislation, "Roe vs. Wade." Interesting, to me at least, the news was hard to find on the Mississippi TV and newspaper news sites I looked at. jgw
• NYT: Occupy Movement... (443) 0000-00-00 The New York Times of 11.11.08 reported that the Occupy Wall Street movement, which has spread world-wide, has inspired labor unions to join in the protests and to take bolder actions themselves.
• CalSOS: Past Special... (458) 0000-00-00 The web site for the California Secretary of State web-publishes the state-wide and by-county election Special Elections (off-year) results from past special elections here.

2012 June 5 Primary Results (weblinks)

• NYT: 2012 June 5 GOP Primary... (658) 0000-00-00
• NYT: 2012 U.S. Electoral... (395) 0000-00-00 In Nov. 2012, Greens must siphon votes (swing votes further left) from progressive democrats and left-leaning independents as well as turn out all of our base.
• NYT: 2012 June 5 Primary:... (703) 0000-00-00
• SacBee: Election 2012: CA... (865) 0000-00-00 I (jgw) am not yet sure if these California Primary election results pages published by the Sacramento Bee, June 5, 2012 through ??? will remain web-published for months to come.
• SFGate: 2012 June 5 Primary... (728) 0000-00-00 I (jgw) am not yet sure for how long these election results will remain web-published on the San Francisco Chronicle's SFGate.org web site.
• California Secretary of... (378) 0000-00-00
• The LAVote.net web site (391) 0000-00-00 Possibly LAVote.net provides less biased (or more progressively slanted) and more complete election results than the "mainstream" mass media's web sites -- and even the Office of the California Secretary of State (SOS) -- web publish.
• CAGreens: 2012 June 5... (474) 0000-00-00

2012 Nov. 6 California Election Information (weblinks)

• AI: 50 Quotes (US) Americans... (436) 0000-00-00 Addicting Information dot org (AI) lists these 50 mostly obscure but timely quotes by famous figures in US history.
• The Americans Elect 2012 web... (421) 0000-00-00 "Americans Elect 2012: Pick a President, Not a Party (in) America's first direct presidential nomination. Participation in discussion groups and voting in the convention is subject to authentication and verification of your status as a registered voter in the United States. Participation will help the people directly nominate a presidential ticket through a secure, online convention that is independent of the major political parties for the first time ever." JGW: The AmericansElect.org web site is new since about September or October 2011. National Public Radio reported Wednesday 11.11.02 that AE is offering a national public survey to determine who are voters' choices for political candidates OUTSIDE or inside the two US Political Parties and what political issues are most important to voters. Thus AE will try to ignore the limited choice for a Democrat Party candidate for President and the 7-9 choices offered as of Nov. 2, 2011, by the Republican Party. AE also will ignore the narrow choices of issues being presented by the two political parties. AE will let the people decide -- in the AE survey -- what candidates, issues, and policies are statistically most important to the US population at large, not just the likely voters in 2012. NPR asked if AE will later form a 3rd Party but an AE spokesperson declined to answer.
• The New California State and... (413) 0000-00-00
• GOTV: PBS Frontline: How... (415) 0000-00-00 The PBS Newshour of Monday 12.10.29 presented this 8 minutes long story produced by Frontline, their in-depth investigative journalism group. The story is the first in a series on how the two major US political parties attempt to "get out the vote" in 2012, this year for the first time heavily using information gathered about voters from the Internet.
• GOTV: PBS Frontline:... (517) 0000-00-00 For the first time in national elections, political campaigns can target off-the-grid-voters who use the Internet for news, entertainment and shopping more than they use television and radio. This was not possible 4 years ago in the 2008 campaign. The PBS Newshour of Tuesday 12.10.30 presented this 11 minutes long story produced by Frontline, their in-depth investigative journalism group. The story is the second in a series on how the two major US political parties attempt to "get out the vote" in 2012, this year for the first time heavily using information gathered about voters from the Internet.
• Initiatives for 2012: Label... (383) 0000-00-00 It's our right to know which foods have genetically modified organic components in them. c/o Facebook 11.08.11
• The Voter.org web site (641) 0000-00-00 Voter information including how to register to vote.
• The VoteNader.org web site... (370) 0000-00-00 Ralph Nader's 2008 "VoteNader.org" web site, his original web site for his run for President of the U.S. as an independent in 2008, still exists and gets updated often. Apparently it exists on-line at least as a reference for what the issues were going into the November 2008 election and what was the rhetoric then to compare with the issues and rhetoric of public discourse now in 2012.

2012 Nov. 6 US+CA Election Results (weblinks)

• CSU to raise some fees even... (374) 0000-00-00 The Nov. 5, 2012, online San Francisco Chronicle (SFGate.com) reported that the California State University (CSU) system of higher education institutions will raise some fees for some students even if Proposition 30 passes -- which it did Nov. 6.
• The California Report: 2012... (367) 0000-00-00 (Caution: some weeks or months after the 12.11.06 General Election, the California Report site may move the 2012 election results to a different location on their web site.)
• SFGate: CA Democrats Win... (385) 0000-00-00 In the Nov. 6, 2012, General Election California Democrats won a super-majority (more then 60%) of the seats in both houses (i.e. the state House and Senate) of the state legislature. This means that for the next 2-4 years California Democrats can write and re-write State tax laws, perhaps including repealing the deeply problematic deceptive Proposition 13 passed in 1978. Besides reducing property taxes on home owners that had been the predominant funding for the exemplary #1 in the nation California K-12, UC and CSU systems of public education, Prop 13 also secretly required a new 2/3 majority vote in the legislature to raise California taxes and inspired the next 30 years of tax revolts in California and then across the USA. That 2/3 majority rule ever since has caused several months long, even 1/2 year-long, delays in passing new state budgets as well as much dismay and financial difficulties in public schools, public health care and other public assistance institutions who have no funding to continue operations in those months. However, the new super-majority of Democrats also means they can override any veto that Democrat third term Governor Jerry Brown Jr. may impose on new state legislation.
• CSPAN's 2012 Election Hub (366) 0000-00-00
• CSPAN's 2012 AP Election Map (392) 0000-00-00 CSPAN re-web-published this 2012 General Election results map created by the Associated Press news service on election day Nov. 6.
• SacBee's 2012 CA Election... (506) 0000-00-00 The Sacramento Bee web site web-published this map and table of the 2012 Nov. 6 General Election results for the State of California.
• FreshAir: Noam Ornstein on... (534) 0000-00-00 NPR Fresh Air program host Terry Gross interviewed Norm Ornstein in the first 30 minutes of her November 7, 2012 program. Ornstein is a bi-partisan scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. She asked him his opinions about whether or not Congressional Gridlock will continue now that President Obama has a second term in office. Ornstein's answers are especially insightful; his suggestions for how the radicalized US Congress should repair itself are remarkably simple and compelling.
• PBS Newshour: Analysis of... (374) 0000-00-00 This "portal" page on the PBS Newshour's web site for their program of 12.11.07, the day after President Obama won a second term as President, presents a number of stories related to his campaign's success.
• PBS Newshour: Never Aired... (493) 0000-00-00 The PBS News Hour of Monday November 5, 2012, the day before the Nov. 6 General Election, presented this 4 minute 1976 campaign ad about President Gerald Ford. Ford was the successor President who pardoned President Richard Nixon (1968-72) who was forced to resign from office in 1972 because he had committed agregious acts of obstruction of justice about what he knew and did in the Watergate scandel of that time to try to win a 2nd term as President. Ford (1972-76) ran as the GOP candidate for a second term as President in 1976 against newcomer southern Democrat Jimmy Carter, who won the election. If Ford had been able to run this ad, and the American public could have tolerated the references to the Kennedy assassination in 1963, Ford might have won reelection in 1976. Finally shown on national TV in November 2012, Ford's ad puts to shame GOP candidate for President Mitt Romney's ethics, honesty, morality, and integrity.
• PBS Newshour: Analysis of... (410) 0000-00-00 The PBS Newshour's day-after the 2012 election political analysis show presented this summary of the Nov. 6 election results. (This is a 7:38 minutes long video with transcript.)
• PBS Newshour: How They Did... (455) 0000-00-00 In this more technical segment of the PBS Newshour's day-after 2012 Election Analysis program, 3 prominent campaign journalists comment on how the Obama campaign tactics, especially their get-out-the-vote effort, were superior to those of the Romney campaign. (This is a 9:41 minutes long video with transcript.)
• PBS Newshour: Congress after... (397) 0000-00-00 How much or little did Congress change as a result of the Nov. 6 2012 General Election? Who are the old and new people in each house? (This is a 11:54 minutes long video with transcript.)
• PBS Newshour: The USA The... (391) 0000-00-00 The PBS Newshour show's caption for this segment of their Nov. 7 day-after-the-election analysis program is "From Fiscal Cliff to Immigration Reform, What Will the Next Four Years Bring?" While commentators in this segment mention that "ObamaCare will be fully implemented," there is no mention of Medicare For All or a jobs program to accelerate economic recovery or of ways to control (if not roll-back) the costs of medical care. (This is a 9 minutes long video with transcript.)
• PBS Newshour Analysts... (1373) 0000-00-00 Regular PBS Newshour political analysts Mark Shields (D) and David Brooks (R) comment on the changes in US voter demographics in the 2012 election year and the fate of the congressional "Grand (US 10 Year Budget) Bargin" agreed to by both parties earlier in 2012, a sign that bi-partisan compromise was possible, but thereafter ignored by both major parties. (This is an 8 minutes long video with transcript.)
• The USA in 2012 in 10 Charts (380) 0000-00-00 The New York Times of New Year's Eve December 31, 2012 (12.12.31) presented this article with 10 charts showing the progress or lack of it made in the USA in 2012.

2012 Presidential Debates (weblinks)

• The 2012 Third Party... (413) 0000-00-00 "The 2012 Third Party Debate" took place in Chicago, IL, on October 23, 2012. Retired talk show host Larry King moderated. The third party candidates for the US presidency were four: Jill Stein (Green Party), Rocky Anderson (Justice Party), Gary Johnson (former New Mexico governor, current Libertarian Party candidate and an outspoken fan of un-nominated GOP libertarian candidate Ron Paul), and Virgil Goode (Constitution Party, also a more right leaning group of libertarians). This may be the first time in US Television's 60+ year history that a national cable television news and events program provider, CSPAN, has allowed US third party candidates for the Presidency to debate each other live on cable and as a live video stream.
• The 2012 Two Major US Party... (409) 0000-00-00 In Fall 2012 CSPAN.org cable-cast live and provided video streams of the recorded debates primarily for the Democrat and Republican candidates for US President. Those debates occured live on Oct. 4 and Oct. 23. The Vice Presidential candidates' debate was live on Oct. 12. On this same CSPAN web site CSPAN provides recorded debates of the two party candidates for many US Congressional seats, and for many US state offices in 2012. Until October 23, 2012, CSPAN did not cover any third party candidates for the US Presidency, but did cover earlier in 2012 several third party national conventions. See also on this web site web links to: The Third Party Debates at CSPAN and The Extended Presidential Debates from DemocracyNow.org. The latter debates inserted the answers of third party candidates Jill Stein (Green Party) and Rocky Anderson (Justice Party) in the otherwise closed two national TV debates between President Barack Obama and GOP candidate Mitt Romney. Those debates occurred on October 4 and October 22. See also the links on this web site to The Democracy Now Expanded Debates of 2012. These special broadcasts and video streams may be an historic first-of-its-kind technology work-around that effectively open up the otherwise closed, tightly controlled two major party debates that have occurred each election year in the USA since television became the primary forum to inform the US public about candidates for office in the 1950s.
• DN: The Expanded 2012 VP... (417) 0000-00-00 DemocracyNow.org imposed a technology trick on the otherwise two major party 2012 vice presidential debates October 12, 2012, between current Democratic VP Joe Biden and GOP challenger Paul Ryan. DN recorded the two party debate live while video streaming that national broadcast live as well. When the two major party candidates had finished answering a question from the moderator, the third party candidates for vice president, Cheri Honkala (Green Party) and Luis Rodriguez (Justice Party) located in a separate TV studio, spoke live as well for the same length of time to answer the same questions. These "planned and well coordinated interruptions" extended the time for the two party-only debate from 1.5 hours to over 3 hours allowing all four candidates to be heard and seen. Technologically and politically speaking, this was an historic event that "broke" the two party hegemony on what public policy messages the US public are allowed to hear and what candidates they can see on corporate owned national television networks and cable channels.
• DN: The Expanded First 2012... (423) 0000-00-00 DemocracyNow.org imposed a technology trick on the otherwise closed, first two major party 2012 presidential debates October 4, between current Democratic candidate for a second term, President Barack Obama, and GOP challenger (Mormon bishop) Mitt Romney. DN recorded the two party debate live while video streaming that national broadcast live as well. When the two major party candidates had finished answering a question from the moderator, the third party candidates for president, located in a separate TV studio, spoke live as well for the same length of time to answer the same questions. These "planned and well coordinated interruptions" extended the time for the two party-only debate from 1.5 hours to over 3 hours. But the resulting Expanded Debate included all four candidates, two from the major US parties, two from US third parties: Jill Stein (Green Party) and Rocky Anderson (Justice Party). Technologically and politically speaking, this was an historic event that "broke" the two party hegemony on what public policy messages the US public are allowed to hear and what candidates they can see on corporate owned national television networks and cable channels.
• DN: The Expanded Second 2012... (450) 0000-00-00 DemocracyNow.org imposed a technology trick on the otherwise closed, second two major party 2012 presidential debates October 22, between current Democratic candidate for a second term, President Barack Obama, and GOP challenger (Mormon bishop) Mitt Romney. DN recorded the two party debate live while video streaming that national broadcast live as well. When the two major party candidates had finished answering a question from the moderator, the third party candidates for president, located in a separate TV studio, spoke live as well for the same length of time to answer the same questions. These "planned and well coordinated interruptions" extended the time for the two party-only debate from 1.5 hours to over 3 hours. But the resulting Expanded Debate included all four candidates, two from the major US parties, two from US third parties: Jill Stein (Green Party) and Rocky Anderson (Justice Party). Technologically and politically speaking, this was an historic event that "broke" the two party hegemony on what public policy messages the US public are allowed to hear and what candidates they can see on corporate owned national television networks and cable channels.

2014 June 6 Primary Results (weblinks)

Above Average Joomla! Powered Web Sites (weblinks)

• 11th Hour Rescue, New York (1480) 0000-00-00 A well done Joomla-powered web site. Recommended by David Doonan, GPUS webmaster, 11.04.26.

Alternative Energy Sources (weblinks)

• SA: Australian solar plant... (676) 0000-00-00 The ScienceAlert.com.au (SA) site announced Thursday June 5, 2014 (14.06.05) that a Newcastle, Australia solar energy test project has been the first to succeed in making "super-critical" (really hot and high pressure) steam with which to power an electric turbine. What is remarkable is that also for the first time the steam produced is as hot or hotter and at higher pressures than the steam that has ever been produced by coal-powered or gas-powered fossil fuel power plants to-date! Furthermore, stating the obvious, the sun is almost forever available in the day time and the water for the steam is collable and reusable. (jgw:) With another steam-powered turbine setup nearby and spinning up a stationary, big and heavy fly-wheel (storing steam energy as angular momentum of the fly-wheel), more of the day-time solar energy would be available to feed into the electrical power distribution lines during the night or on low sunshine days. (I.e. the fly-wheel motor that spins-up the fly-wheel turns into an electric generator.)

Anti-Science Watch Dogs (weblinks)

• NYT: What if Romney-Ryan Win... (650) 0000-00-00 The August 26, 2012, New York Times Sunday Review featured this short article by columnist David Leonhardt. He summarized the progressive's worst case scenario, albeit in "gentle unthreatening" terms: what if the GOP's Romney-Ryan ticket win the Presidency and Vice Presidency on Nov. 6, 2012?
• NYT: Krugman: Republicans... (687) 0000-00-00 In this writer's opinion (JGW) the Republicans have exploited their poorly educated, hippie-hating, fearfully conservative, maliciously delusional "christian" base of voters (25% of the electorate) since the first Reagan for President Campaigns (1975, 1979). Economist Paul Krugman writes in the New York Times of 11.08.29 that the 2011-2012 crop of GOP candidates for the presidential nomination are doing more of the same.
• The Journey of the Universe... (650) 0000-00-00 Journey of the Universe is a book, DVD, and a 1 hour 28 minutes film, hopefully soon to be a video stream. The film is making the rounds (having appearances) on many USA public television stations as of August 2011. For a compelling, poetic, lyrical progressive blend of human awe and reverence with up-to-date scientific facts about the cosmos, creation, and life WATCH THIS FILM. And it is "holy water" with which to confront the radical delusional religious right and their masters.

Arguments (weblinks)

Avoiding Environmental Catastrophes (weblinks)

• NYT: In the USA What... (599) 0000-00-00 The Sunday New York Times of 11.10.16 presented this summary of the global response to climate change to which the USA remains notably absent. So who is really in charge of that discussion and policy making in the USA?
• PBS: Plan B: Mobilizing to... (687) 0000-00-00 This 86 minutes long PBS documentary first broadcast in April 2011 summarizes the problems human civilization faces as it grows from 6.5 billion people in 2011 to 9.5 billion people by 2030. It is based on the book of the same name by Lester Brown and features Economist Paul Krugman, writer Tom Friedman, and former US Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbit and many scientists. Issues include population growth, persistent agricultural stupidity, food supply collapse, and the side effects of failed states. Deeper issues include the desire of the populations of developing countries to be more like US Americans, eat more meat, drive more cars, and consume more energy-intensive waste-making manufactured foods, goods, and services.
• Reuters: Dead Nuke Power... (658) 0000-00-00 Reuters news service published this article on 11.04.19 titled "With (an) eye to Japan (i.e. to the fatally damaged Fukushima nuclear power plants), (the) world pledges cash for Chernobyl". Is this the latest ploy in imposing world wide "disaster capitalism" and it's "hidden taxes" on "the masses"? (See: Naomi Klein's book of the same title. See also: the video stream of Democracy Now's 11.04.19 news program.)
• DN: As Radiation Leaks... (653) 0000-00-00 The Democracy Now news program of 11.04.19 presented this segment about the green-mail employed by the US nuclear power industry. In the wake of continued radiation leaks from the fatally damaged Fukushima power plant in Japan, the USA Vermont state's "Vermont Yankee" nuclear power plant, still in operation providing electric power, will sue in federal court to stay in operation past it's license renewal deadline of March 2012.
• NYT: The Earth Is Full (597) 0000-00-00 New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote 11.06.07 that according to the Global Footprint Network our Planet Earth has 50% more people than there is capacity to support a first world life style. He cites a recent book by Australian environmentalist-entrepreneur Paul Gilding titled "The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World". So in short: global shopping is going to be unsustainable.

Bad Actors (weblinks)

• History of ACORN Community... (469) 0000-00-00 ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, was the nation's largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families, working together for social justice and stronger communities. It was a very successful, progressive, community organizing and charity program with offices in several of the USA's largest cities from 1970 though the 2000s. All was well, the program was expanding faster, and the program was getting more and more national press in the late-2000s as a "model program," with the implication it could be expanded further and copied elsewhere by other progressive activists. All was well until a "set-up sex scandal" fabricated by two young secretly conservative "poor folks" seeking ACORN help caused so many legal expenses that ACORN had to shut down it's offices "forever" nation-wide... in fact cripple ACORN greatly and get it completely out of the media spot-light to-date! The young, phony poor folks who "brought ACORN down" were likely misguided and sadistic "liberal haters," definitely well-rehearsed and probably paid to infiltrate, disrupt, and cause the scandals. Read more about that history (good and bad) at this web site and perhaps more about the bad actions by malicious bad actors (and those who paid them) to bring it down. (JGW PS: The "story of ACORN's rise and fall needs MORE web links submited to this CAGI web site to those now several years old stories in US newspapers and magazines.)
• Occupy Maine: BofA Worst... (795) 0000-00-00 May 1, 2012, Occupy Maine awarded the Bank of America the title of "Worst Company in The World." There was a small "ceremony" in the lobby of a BofA Branch bank somewhere in Maine. Noise-makers were "noised," streamers were streamed. Apparently there was no cake.
• UK Guardian: The... (609) 0000-00-00 Progressive attorney turned author, Glenn Greenwald, wrote this essay for The Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom, August 22, 2012 (12.08.22). Similar comments have yet to be expressed by the establishment news services of the USA.

Basic US Civics, Then, Now, for Later (weblinks)

Books of Interest to Progressives (weblinks)

• Amazon: Told You So, Ralph... (516) 0000-00-00 Progressive Ralph Nader's latest book is "Told You So: The Big Book of (his) Weekly Columns," 2013, Seven Stories Press. It is available from Amazon in Kindle and paperback editions. See also the CSPAN2 BookTV video program link also on this CAGI web site in which Nader speaks for 1 hour and 9 minutes about progressive issues, the contents of his latest book, and related news. He also repeatedly urges us, we the people hobbled by our learned powerlessness, to "fix the system" with the rallying cry "it is easier than (we) think!" I (jgw) haven't read the book yet, but I am sure this is A MUST READ!
• Mag: Yes Magazine online (514) 0000-00-00 Progressive consumer activist and advocate Ralph Nader said this about Yes Magazine: "xxxxxxx."
• Television Production... (564) 0000-00-00 This book is primarily for apprentice professionals who will become professional camera operators, television directors and producers. However, it will provide very good information for the amateur HDTV people who manage to have (or rent) a $100-$200 high definition camera, a good microphone, tripod, mic-stand and a small lighting kit and want to understand the "basics" of high quality television production. To "leaf through" this latest edition of Herbert Zettle's Television Production Handbook on Amazon.com, go to the "look inside" page, click on "table of contents," and only look at a few pages in a few chapters at any one visit to the Amazon.com web pages for this book! I.e. as many pages as the Amazon "look inside" system lets you look at in one sitting. If the parts of the book you read online inspire you to learn more, look for a used book to buy or the Kindle edition; both should be in the $10-$30 range.
• The Return of Depression... (498) 0000-00-00 Progressive professor of economics at Princeton, Dr. Paul Krugman, is one of the few experts on The Great Depression of the 1930s. In this updated 2008 book he describes in very readable non-technical terms how The Great Recession of 2008 happened and why. It dispels so many "urban legends" about modern U.S. recession economy. To "leaf through" this updated edition of Krugman's book on Amazon.com, go to the "look inside" page, click on "table of contents," and only look at a few pages in a few chapters at any one visit to the Amazon.com web pages for this book! I.e. as many pages as the Amazon "look inside" system lets you look at in one sitting. If the parts of the book you read online inspire you to learn more, buy a new or used book or buy the Kindle edition; the first should be in $22 or less; the Kindle should be about $11.
• DN: "Private Empire" Exxon... (661) 0000-00-00 The Friday 12.05.04 Democracy Now show interviewed author Steve Coll about his new book "Private Empire." He argues that Exxon, recently demoted to being the second most rich and powerful global corporation behind Apple, has sufficient wealth and power to ignore the wishes and control much of the legislation in very many sovereign governments. He gives example of that abuse of power.
• Amazon: RTReich: Beyond... (548) 0000-00-00 EXCELLENT CLEAR CONCISE PROGRESSIVE ECONOMIC RECOVERY TALKING POINTS FOR 2012. Robert T. Reich's newest book is "Beyond Outrage: What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix them." It is only available in a Kindle edition from Amazon.com. $2.99. Dr. Reich is the former U.S. Labor Secretary under President Clinton. He is currently a professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley campus. If you "only" have a PC or laptop, download the free "Kindle for PC" software from Amazon and read it there. If you can only use a computer in a library, (1) have Amazon "deliver" you eBook to "Kindle in the Cloud." Then you can read it online "in the cloud" any time you like. But also ask the librarian to install free "Kindle for the PC" on each PC in the library computer lab. In all cases, you still have to pay the $2.99 one-time price though. But then later when you have a PC or tablet or smart phone, you can read the ebook on each of those devices as well for no extra charge.
• Creating Wealth (with local... (526) 0000-00-00 This is a like to Amazon.com's book-purchase page for "Creating Wealth: Growing Local Economies with Local Currencies," by G. Hallsmith and B. Lietaer, April 2011. If you cannot afford the book, until you can possibly you can read up to 10% of it online at Amazon using their "Look Inside" feature on this web page. Just keep coming back to the site and the book's web page to read a bit more...
• New Money for a New World,... (838) 0000-00-00 This is a link to Amazon.com's book purchase page for "New Money for a New World," by Bernard Lietaer and Stephen Belgin, January 2012. If you cannot afford the book, until you can possibly you can read up to 10% of it online at Amazon using their "Look Inside" feature on this web page. Just keep coming back to the site and the book's web page to read a bit more...
• The Bernard Lietner web site... (719) 0000-00-00
• Pity the Billionaire, T.... (605) 0000-00-00 This is the Amazon.com book's purchase page for "Pity the Billionaire: The Hard Times Swindle and Unlikely Comeback of the Right" by Thomas Frank, January 2012. If you cannot afford the book, until you can possibly you can read up to 10% of it online at Amazon using their "Look Inside" feature on this web page. Just keep coming back to the site and the book's web page to read a bit more...
• The "In Harm's Way Report":... (649) 0000-00-00 Jill Stein, MD and USA Green Party candidate for President in 2012, and three other medical doctors in the Boston area authored this public education book about threats to children's health and safety in 2000. It seems Ms. Stein's concerns then and now are more for the greater public health, safety and well-being than they are for the typical politician's attempts to achieve more political power, control and public prestige. Can the USA dare to accept and follow the leadership of a president with such progressively liberal extended family values?
• Amazon: The Victory Lab... (538) 0000-00-00 The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns, by Sasha Issenberg, September 11 2012. Available from Amazon.com in their digital Kindle edition for $12.99, also as a $17.01 paperback.
• Amazon: The Little Blue... (686) 0000-00-00 Published June 26, 2012, The Little Blue Book was written for Democrats to help them get their heads out of the sand. Except if you read just the first chapter, it is clear authors Lakoff and Welhing are pumping up the dis-empowered Progressive Democrats in that party. And that means they are educating all progressives, not just the Democrats. I, JGW, suggest the progressive reader READ and RE-FRAME the concepts in the book to be better able to present progressive issues. Lead author Dr. George Lakoff is a "distinguished professor of cognitive science and linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley." He virtually invented the word "re-framing" and began the now 10-15 years long public discussion of how the radical right wing of the GOP have used re-framing so much to their advantage in promoting bad-for-we-the-people, so-very-good-for-the-big-corporations public policies, i.e. the fascist propaganda of the Plutocracy that now dominates US politics and the military-industrial-entertainment complex. Co-author Dr. Elisabeth Wehling is a political strategist and author in the USA and Europe. She does research in linguistics at the University of California, Berkely, on how politics is understood both in the USA and Europe. With some careful critical thinking by the reader, their book promises to help those real progressives who have been made powerless by relentless, mind-numbing, confusing concept-distorting and intimidating political right-wing propaganda and the historically lame 30 past years of Democrat responses to it. As a result we still have those distorted ideas, propaganda and purveyors of them acting as the dominate excuse for public debate in the mass media. The progressively liberal Democratic authors could more directly help the further-left, the real active non-violent progressives, to re-frame and expand their thinking and public speech in the service of creating multi-party small-d democracy in the USA. But they have chosen to do so indirectly in their book. But I'm sure they realize that the wiser, more intelligent, honest, participatory democracy that could result could allow for more real progressive and humanitarian public policies agreed to at the federal, state, and local levels.
• Group Dynamics (c) 2009 (584) 0000-00-00 This is the "see inside" table of contents page of this book at Amazon.com. You can "go to" the rest of the book from this page. By reading 1/10th or less of this book online at Amazon.com at each sitting in front of your computer screen, you could read most if not all of the book online for free in, say, a week or so. (1/10th of a copyrighted book is the Fair Use limit for free copying/reading for educational purposes of US copyright law.)
• The Seventeen Traditions... (570) 0000-00-00 On Amazon.com, this is Ralph Nader's 2007 book in which he discusses the 17 traditions, or traditional American values, that have made the USA the land of the free and home of the brave including the cooperative, compassionate, civil independent free thinkers.
• Getting Steamed to Overcome... (557) 0000-00-00 On Amazon.com, is Ralph Nader's second book of 2011 "Getting Steamed to Overcome Corporatism: Build it together to win." Unfortunately as of 12.01.08 the contents of the book are not available online at Amazon.com and the Kindle edition has not yet been published.
• Reality Is Broken: Games... (580) 0000-00-00 Dr. Jane McGonigal talks about how cooperative games can encourage game players to be more social, more cooperative and helpful to others; i.e. they induce better voluntary thoughtful behavior. She also summarizes the supporting research about the effects of cooperative and competitive games.
• Joining Together 9th edition (665) 0000-00-00 Joining Together, 9th edition, now exists in the 1eth and 11th edition as of January 2012. None of the editions have a "Look Inside" digital copy on Amazon.com which the browser can read parts of for free. The paperback textbooks are very expensive. There is also no digital lower-cost Kindle edition of any of the editions -- yet. The 9th edition is the edition from which I (jgw) extracted and simplified Chapter 1, which is (to be) web published (soon) on this web site.
• The Righteous Mind: Why Good... (515) 0000-00-00 The Kindle edition has been available since March 13, 2012. I (JGW) highly recommend that as many people in the US Green Party read this book as soon as possible. Author Dr. Johnathan Haidt presents in lay person's language the conclusions of the latest research of his academic fields of interest, the social-psychological study of the opinions and beliefs that divide and conquer us. I and he believe it is essential that more of us activist know what the social and psychological pitfalls are before we can avoid them more effectively and build "bridges" over them that facilitate greater real democracy.

Books of Interest: Technical (weblinks)

Build (and refurbish) Our Own Homes (weblinks)

• ThePOOSH.org web site (884) 0000-00-00 ThePOOSH.org web site hosts social networking about creating our own (i.e. grass-roots) small homes in or near larger communities. There is also a ThePOOSH.org Group on Facebook. (Note to self; CORRECT_THIS_IF_NECESSARY)
• The POOSH.org web pages on... (635) 0000-00-00 Discussions and some information about home built (small group built) inexpensive houses and how to build them on ThePOOSH.org's Facebook Group page! Social Networking and more information c/o ThePOOSH.org web site too.

Campaign Lessons from the EU (weblinks)

• Will the German election... (748) 0000-00-00 Deutsche Welle television (DW TV, www.dw.de) had this post insightful Sunday election analysis Tuesday 13.09.24 of the September 22nd, 2013, German general election. In at least one of several viewing of this 30 minute stream, ignore the particulars of how the various German political parties had power before the election and now "jockey" for power (build new coaltions) after the election. Ignore that former Prime Minister Angela Merkel, "The EU must suffer severe Financial Austerity Programs" Merkel, is still Prime Minister. Notice at least that the German Green Party retains seats and some influence in 2013 and the next 1+ years in forming new coalitions in Parliament. Remember that those in the dominant new coalition of parties get the government ministry jobs. Also notice that the Free Democrats in Parliament are all no longer there! And the Social Democrats may have the most influence, unless the lesser numbered Greens come up with something compelling, in being an essential part of the coalition Merkel and her party will lead in coming years.

Campaign Lessons from the Right (weblinks)

• NYT: Krugman: (Romney) The... (530) 0000-00-00 In his Monday 12.04.23 column in the New York Times, progressive economist Paul Krugman points out how likely GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney is depending on most people forgetting about the failures of George W. Bush in order to blame Obama for today's poor economy. That is practically a shot from a starting gun to urge progressives to bring back the G. W. Bush "legacy" in detail to convince voters that Obama is the better choice for President (if most people assume there are only two to choose from). For those liberals and progressives who still want to "bash Obama," Krugman points out several prickly talking points.
• UCTV: Robert Reich:... (539) 0000-00-00 The complete UCTV program title is "Political Civility Should Not Be an Oxymoron." Former Labor Secretary under President Clinton and current professor at University of California Berkeley, Robert Reich, speaks for 58 minutes about the (I believe intentionally) disheartening lack of political civility and real debate that has been normal in U.S. elections for the last 30 years. He puts the origins of our current political morass in a historical perspective going back to the Great Depression, World War II, and the effective attitudes and behaviors of the 1950s through 1970s which produced significant liberal changes in U.S. society. He very well and tersely describes today's wide-spread common negative and polarized attitudes, the pollution of big money in politics, reminds us of the talk show dilemma in which the speakers only reinforce the audience members' preconceived notions (i.e. biases) and their refusal to listen to anything that deviates from their beliefs. He concludes his formal talk after 41 minutes with a summary of what generally needs to be done by all voters to correct this situation. Then he answers audience questions for the final 10 minutes in which he mentions more specific details. During the last 5 minutes of the Q&A period he reminds us of the existence of the First Progressive Movement in the USA that started in 1901 and lasted until about 1918. Apparently he forgot to mention that The Women's Suffrage Movement, started by a previous generation of women in the 1880s, led to their daughters and grand daughters persuading Congress to pass an amendment to the Constitution in 1920 giving women the right to vote. Today, rather like the middle 1960s, we progressives struggle to mention or articulate well just among ourselves so many progressive goals. Too many of us remain unable to do so "on the streets" among people with more differing political views. Yet Reich points out that all these issues had their origins and arose spontaneously among the U.S. electorate in the First Progressive Movement. Many were enacted into the laws of the nation and of many U.S. states at that time. The obvious if not explicitly mentioned irony is that today we have to mobilize ourselves to repeat many of the political actions, defend and restore many of the progressive laws passed in 1910-1939, in the 1965 through 1975, doing so all over again as if it was 1912.
• NYT: Iowa Caucus Tests... (1236) 0000-00-00 The New York Times of Tuesday evening 12.01.03 points out that GOP candidates Mitt Romney, the longest front runner to-date, and underdog Rick Santorum ended the Iowa Caucus vote in a dead heat, 25% for each; Ron Paul was in 3rd place. By Wednesday morning Romney official won by 8 votes. Question for progressives: How did Santorum's organization do that in Iowa so quickly (in the last days before the Caucus vote) and so cheaply?
• NYT: Krugman: The (Pro)... (475) 0000-00-00 In his Monday February 11, 2013 (13.02.11) column in the New York Times, the day before President Obama's 5th State of the Union address to Congress and the nation, progressive economist Paul Krugman in effect reviewed the relentless dis-information and anti-Obama propaganda campaign of the radical right wing that controls the Grand Old Party (GOP). He also pointed out how leading GOP members, Representative Cantor in particular, are literally urging less education and no funding for "critical thinking" in schools for which they have some influence! How many more clues do the politically avoidant voters need to confirm that nagging suspicion that the GOP and their candidates have been "putting one over on them" for years? I mean without the radical ranting right wing talk show hosts to model how to suspend disbelief, think 100% illogically and emotionally, AND bash liberals, how could any free thinking moderate conservative support this crap?

Campaign Planning Information (weblinks)

• PBS: How Data Mining is... (665) 0000-00-00 The PBS Television "Newshour" program of Friday, 12.09.14, featured a segment about "The Victory Lab," the new ways that campaigns (with the computing and data mining resources) have successful imposed new ways of analyzing, finding, and reaching out to their "likely voters." See also the "Victory Lab" book link in the "Books of Interest to Progressives" web link category.
• The California Voter Connect... (633) 0000-00-00 Their mission: "To provide voter file data services for progressive organizations and campaigns of all sizes, and help them drive long-term structural change by running effective, fun, data-driven, and highly personal campaigns. We use the Voter Activation Network or VAN: the same voter file system used by the Obama campaign in its historic 2008 victory."

Campaign Resources (weblinks)

• Voter Lists: The... (544) 0000-00-00 The ElectionMall.com web site provides registered voter data in dataset files in several file formats. A campaign registered voters data manager requests a list, optionally including some voter history and demographic information for the desired U.S. state(s), or county (counties) with a state, or political districts or precincts within a state, etc. at the site in a web form. The data manager submits the form, received a price for the desired data set, pays a fee, and receives that dataset file with nn weeks (if not the same day available for download). The data manager received the dataset (by download or on a CD) then either (1) imports the dataset file into an Excel (or Open Office Calc) spreadsheet or (2) imports the dataset into their Joomla! or Drupal or Wordpress CMS database table(s) for which 1+ add-on code for that CMS allow the site user to view, edit, analyze, filter and report the contents of that registered voter information. PS: The proprietary commercial NationBuilder.com CMS has its own way for an NB site user to request 1+ registered voters dataset, load them, review and edit the contents, analyze the contents and generate phone bank, email blast, and GOTV reports and lists about the contents. jgw 12.03.20
• Voter Lists: The Media One... (560) 0000-00-00 The Media One PPC Campaign web site (www.media1llc.com) provides registered voter data in dataset files in several file formats. A campaign registered voters data manager requests a list, optionally including some voter history and demographic information for the desired U.S. state(s), or county (counties) with a state, or political districts or precincts within a state, etc. at the site in a web form. The data manager submits the form, received a price for the desired data set, pays a fee, and receives that dataset file with nn weeks (if not the same day available for download). The data manager received the dataset (by download or on a CD) then either (1) imports the dataset file into an Excel (or Open Office Calc) spreadsheet or (2) imports the dataset into their Joomla! or Drupal or Wordpress CMS database table(s) for which 1+ add-on code for that CMS allow the site user to view, edit, analyze, filter and report the contents of that registered voter information. PS: The proprietary commercial NationBuilder.com CMS has its own way for an NB site user to request 1+ registered voters dataset, load them, review and edit the contents, analyze the contents and generate phone bank, email blast, and GOTV reports and lists about the contents. jgw 12.03.20
• Voter Lists: The California... (543) 0000-00-00
• Voter Lists: The... (641) 0000-00-00 VLO is a partly free, ultimately expensive source for digital registered voter lists including both us-mail, phone numbers, and emails. The site requires that the requester fill out a simple application and include a compelling justification for why s/he will make "good use" of the lists they provide (which may or may not be a legal demand). Once the approved voter list requester has prepared a suitable list on the VOL web site, they must pay $0.03/voter, as of March 2012, to download that list to their chosen computer. That is $300 for 100 voters, $3000 for 1000 voters...

Campaigns & Candidates (weblinks)

Candidate News (weblinks)

• Jill Stein announced her GP... (636) 0000-00-00
• MSNBC: Just Released Clinton... (616) 0000-00-00 The US Government's National Archive just released Friday 2014.04.18 the latest trove of formerly secret documents about Hillary and Bill Clinton which were produced during Bill Clinton's presidency, 1992-2000. MSNBC summarized them and added links to some of them on this their Friday 2014.04.18 web page.
• JS: 11 States with GPs... (732) 0000-00-00 Jill Stein's web site, Jill Stein for President, said May 3, 2012 that 11 U.S. states have fulfilled their "Double Your Green Campaign" with donations sufficient to qualify each state for federal matching funds.
• HuffPost: Roseanne Barr to... (637) 0000-00-00 The Huffington Post announced Thursday 12.02.02 that actress-comedian Roseanne Barr will seek the nomination of the US Green Party to run as the GP candidate for President of the United States! PS: She almost certainly has more money to run for the nomination than do the current three other US GP candidates, two guys and one MD gal.

Candidate Web Site Building Resources (weblinks)

• 5 Wordpress Themes for... (755) 0000-00-00 These themes are commercial costing about $35 each. The candidate or campaign manager will need a minimally technically competent web site builder who knows about HTML and CSS so s/he can change a few things in the theme as-it-comes to them.

Candidates for Public Office in 2012 (weblinks)

• Jill Stein for President... (527) 0000-00-00
• Jack Lindblad for Cal... (618) 0000-00-00
• Harley Mikkelson for... (770) 0000-00-00 This information comes care of the 11.12.03 webcast on the Livestream/greenpartyus feed from the GPCA General Assembly meeting in Los Angeles.
• Kent Mesplay for President... (537) 0000-00-00 This information comes care of the 11.12.03 webcast on the Livestream/greenpartyus feed from the GPCA General Assembly meeting in Los Angeles.
• Roseanne Barr for President... (593) 0000-00-00 At first she said she's running under the banner of the fictitious "Green Tea Party," which is perfectly OK. But as of 12.02.02 she's running for the nomination of the Green Party to run for President of the USA, making her the fourth Green to do so. May 4 or 5, 2012, "her people" deployed an upgraded web site, this one!
• Norman Solomon for Congress,... (822) 0000-00-00
• GP Candidates in all 50... (717) 0000-00-00

Climate Changes (weblinks)

Companies with Contracts to Help the GPCA (weblinks)

• Radical Designs, San Francisco (866) 0000-00-00 Radical Designs is based in San Francisco. The Radical Designs web site says it "is a full service web development group focused exclusively on the needs of non-profit and grassroots social change organizations." Since March or April 2011, Radical Designs has had a contract with the GPCA to design a new GPCA web site powered by the state-of-the-art Drupal content management system (CMS). See Drupal.org for general and technical information about Drupal.

Conferencing Services (weblinks)

• The WebHuddle.com web... (596) 0000-00-00 WebHuddle.com claims to offer "alternative (web) conferencing." As of July 2011 the "Global Green Party" has started using this service. WebHuddle is free open source software available for download at SourceForge.net.

Controlling The Message (weblinks)

• BM&C: Marty Kaplan on Big... (632) 0000-00-00 Dr. Marty Kaplan summarized the Big Money - Big Media linkup succinctly on Bill Moyer's and Company PBS show of 12.04.27. Kaplan is the Director of the Norman Lear Center and the Norman Lear Professor of Entertainment, Media and Society at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication. The Annenberg School, with campuses at USC and UPenn, has for several decades researched, analyzed and critiqued the effects of the US Mass Media on US Society. Kaplan wrote the 1992 movie: "The Distinguished Gentleman" in which comic Eddie Murphy plays a con man from Florida who by crazy luck becomes a naive congressman and then sells out to big money once in office. The movie is a parody of Jimmie Stewart's 1939 patriotic movie, just as World War II was starting in Europe, "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." The video stream is 43:05 minutes running time; the transcript is also available.
• BM&C: McCarthyism Then and Now (776) 0000-00-00 Representative Allen West of S Carolina recently declared on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives that "78-81 of the House Democrats are communists!" Watch his full speech; watch the late Edward R. Morrow scold 1950s Senator Joseph McCarthy for destroying careers and lives in his time with the same unsupported, and unsupportable, accusations then. Watch a brief history of Senator Joseph McCarthy and excerpts from his propaganda speeches of that era.
• BM&C: The (2012) Ghost of... (752) 0000-00-00 Intelligent Voters Vote Smarter. We Greens need to make more such voters and help them all need to turn out to vote. In my (jgw's) opinion, Greens in the US need to point out, criticize and remind voters up close and personal, face to face and in small groups, of the distorted facts and history and the corrected versions of them which journalist Bill Moyers continues to reveal to us all weekly on public television. Bill Moyers is an award winning 80-something progressive TV journalist who was attracted to Washington politics from his early college days. Former speech writer then Press Secretary for Lyndon Johnson turned TV news commentator then journalist, for at least 5 decades he has tended to be the first and the best at providing the more enlightening eqalitarian and humanistic analyses of our modern times and the corruptions, the deceits, and the institutional violence that exists all around us. As an 80+ year old, he has the substantial detailed well working historical memory to be able to remind us who are younger and dumber what "history is repeating itself" today at our peril. A reluctant and critical Obama supporter today who voted for him in 2008, Moyers reminds us in this TV essay of 12.04.27 how radical GOP Representative Allen West has recently used the exact same anti-communist demagoguery of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, the latter a media sensation in the 1950s, to ramp up his and other conservatives' attacks on President Obama and on Obama's supporters.
• SFGate: Green 960 AM... (751) 0000-00-00 The San Francisco Chronicle online, SFGate.com, reported Thursday 11.12.01 that the progressive Green 960 AM radio station is going off the air. It will be replaced by yet another Conservative Talk Radio station. The closure of Green 960 AM leaves the SF Bay Area with no progressive radio on the AM dial. KPFA 94.1 FM remains on the FM dial to serve the SFBA.
• FB: President of Ireland... (516) 0000-00-00 An August 2012 post to Facebook features the current President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, "dressing down" (talking back to and effectively shutting-up) in public a determined, smooth-talking but deceitful Tea Party member who has no shame about distorting the truth or misleading the public.
• BM&C: Campaign Misinformation (657) 0000-00-00 Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania appeared on the Bill Moyers and Company television show first aired Friday 12.02.17. In this complete 22 minute interview available online -- with transcript -- she speaks very insightfully, non-technically about how campaign advertising should be reformed in the USA. She also points out how campaign attack ads distort the truth and spread sometimes vicious mis-information about opposing candidates for public office. She shows mock cartoon ads which demonstrate common attack ad distortions methods more clearly.

Corporations Are Not People (weblinks)

• WIAC: Rep Jim McGovern:... (637) 0000-00-00 War Is A Crime, warisacrime.org (WIAC), and FreeSpeechForPeople.org web published Wednesday 11.11.16 that Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern introduced a constitutional amendment in the U.S. House of Representatives declaring Corporations are not people. If passed, which in this radical GOP dominated House is unlikely, the legislation would repeal both the Supreme Court's "Citizens United" and the "Corporate Rights Doctrine." The "Citizens United" decision of 2010 gave corporations, especially those with the most money to spend on advertising, the right to spend unlimited amounts of money on political speech in essence because "corporations are people with free speech rights too."

Democracy Destroying Politics (weblinks)

• BBC: Pres. Johnson Could... (451) 0000-00-00 The BBC reported March 15, 2013 (13.03.15) their findings made from reviewing the most recently released White House, Oval Office, tape recordings made my President Lyndon Johnson in Fall 1968. Summarizing: In the Fall of 1968 Pres. Johnson, in his first term, knew former VP under Pres. Eisenhower, Richard M. Nixon, had committed treason that led to further unnecessary blood shed in the hated war in Viet Nam. But Johnson said nothing about it then or until his death many years later. However Nixon was the GOP candidate for President in 1968. The information in the hands of the Democratic candidate could have destroyed Nixon in the November elections! During the Democrat convention week, no nominees yet chosen to run for President, Johnson became much more worried about the likely Dem candidate, Hubert Humprehy. Johnson was ready to reverse his month-earlier TV announcement that he would not accept the Democratic nomination or run for President to get him a second term in office. In Chicago, where there were violent Police Riots against the demonstrably peaceful, non-violent protesters outside the convention center hotel. "Milk toast" push-over and placating sweet talking Minnesotan Hubert Humphrey was a certainty to get the nomination but loose against Nixon in November. Johnson called and asked Mayor Daley in a White House recorded phone call if security arrangements could be made quickly so he could come to Chicago immediately, land the Presidential Helicopter on the roof of the convention hotel building and have proper security to walk into the convention, surprise everyone, and announce himself as a nominee for President! He knew the convention would nomination him instead. Daley in effect refused. The rest, as they say, is history.

Ecology and Environment Watch Dogs (weblinks)

• The Green Jobs California... (764) 0000-00-00
• Food and Water Watch, SF (623) 0000-00-00 Food and Water Watch, San Francisco, monitors and reports on abuses of our food and water supplies by government and corporate interests. (c/o DemocracyNow.org 10.05.28 show.)
• Peruvians Whitewash Their... (686) 0000-00-00 The BBC reported 6/17/10 that Peruvian villagers have been whitewashing (painting white) the top of a nearby mountain in order to make the local climate more 'temperate'. They also want to encourage "pacha-mama" (mother nature) to return the glacier that used to blanket the mountain top until the last decade. Climate scientists encourage their experiment.
• BBC: Canada Rejects Kyoto... (749) 0000-00-00 One day after the conclusion of the UN Conference on Climate Change in Durban, South Africa, which re-endorsed the Kyoto Treaty, Canada's conservative minister of the environment publicly rejected the Kyoto Treaty. BBC 11.12.12
• Climate Progress (648) 0000-00-00 ClimateProgress.org is a progressive web site which tracks and reports positive and negative developments in human control of climate changes.
• The Sustainable Attorney web... (1175) 0000-00-00 The SustainableAttorney.com web site keeps watch over all things sustainable, particular those which involve the state of Nebraska, that could improve the way our oil and gas dominated societies do things. Attorney Adam J. Prochaska, who works for Harding & Shultz, PC, LLO, Lincoln, NE, contracted the development of the web site and seems to control its content.
• The Tar Sands Action web site (580) 0000-00-00 Tar Sands Action monitors and attempts to mobilize protests about the possible US presidential authorization of the building of a 1700 miles long pipeline from S.E. Alberta Canada to Texas oil refineries, the Keystone XL Pipeline Project. Site recommended by Green Party of California activist Kendra Gonzalez, Facebook, 11.08.26.
• The TreeHugger.com web site (570) 0000-00-00
• NYT: Krugman: America is Not... (539) 0000-00-00 In his Friday 12.01.13 column for the New York Times, columnist and economics professor Paul Krugman writes, in effect, that the USA is not a Corporation that former vulture capitalist CEO and Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney can manage. What Krugman fails to mention in this short column, is that the whole notion that government should serve the large corporations, rather like the Japanese have subsidized their largest corporations for decades, South Korea may have done, and China may be doing now, may be bad economics. It most likely has not been that good for the overwhelming majority of the citizens in each country; instead creating greater division between "the haves" and "the have not so much."
• BBC: Ocean Floor "Jacuzzi... (575) 0000-00-00 The BBC News reported Sunday 12.02.19 a study finding that CO2 is venting from the ocean floor near volcanic vents. The additional CO2 makes the ocean waters more acidic. Hard shell and some soft body ocean animals die off. When atmospheric and ocean CO2 levels rise more in the 21st century, these die-off areas in the oceans will be immensely larger. It took Planet Earth 125,000 years to overcome such conditions in the past.
• UCTV: Food, Energy and The... (655) 0000-00-00 First aired 11.05.09 on UCTV.tv, the 59 minute long lecture "Food, Energy and The Environment: Can We Feed the World and Save the Earth?" is a remarkable analysis of the issues of climate-change and related issues with the most pressing issue for humanity: can we feed the 7 billion of us in 2011 and the 9 billion of us likely to be alive in 2050? The program synopsis is: "Agriculture is a major force of global environmental change (a previously ignored 33% of green house gases), and currently accounts for more global greenhouse gas release than transportation. With the demand for (food) crops projected to double by 2050, University of Minnesota Professor David Tilman explores the impacts that increase will have in the decades to come, and how to manage this with proper planning and global management."
• The World Resources... (571) 0000-00-00 For decades, The World Resources Institute published yearly or bi-yearly books on climate changes as they affected the world's countries and regions. Today they are on the Internet. WRI is a major resource for up-to-date climate changes.
• The Fauna Europaea web site (578) 0000-00-00 Like the World Resources Institute, Fauna Europaea tracks climate changes as they effect Europe's animal life (fauna) and their habitat.

Ecology and Environmental Alternatives (weblinks)

• NYT: How Green Are (plug-in)... (606) 0000-00-00 In the Automobile section of the Friday 12.05.13 New York Times, reporter Paul Stenquist points out that in many US states plug-in electric cars can create equal or greater green-house gases while recharging than would equivalent gasoline powered vehicles.
• Time: Green Jobs as of 2008 (579) 0000-00-00 In May 2008, Time Magazine published this article about the "next big thing", Green Jobs. How far have we come since then (babies)?
• BBC: Durban S.A. UN Climate... (578) 0000-00-00 The BBC reported Sunday evening 11.12.11 that in a marathon negotiation session, the UN Climate Talks in Durban South Africa came to a remarkable conclusion. The European Union will place its current emission-cutting pledges inside the legally-binding Kyoto Protocol, a key demand of developing countries. The UN Climate Conference countries will begin talks in 2012 to reach consensus on needed additional legal terms by 2015 which will better state what actions all countries must be taking by 2020, what emission standards must be met, and probably what control techniques are recommended. There will be a new UN Climate Aid fund to help poorer countries conform to the new standards more quickly and easily. The U.S. continues to ignore the Kyoto Protocol.
• TheAU: UN Climate Conf... (844) 0000-00-00 The Australian online web site reported Sunday 11.12.11 that the UN Climate Talks in Durban, South Africa, reached an historic agreement. All goals which the 194 countries came to the conference to discuss were agreed to. The EU will place their emissions cutting pledges within the Kyoto Protocol. Talks will begin in 2012 to reach agreement on the legal terms for climate emissions reduction and standards by 2015. Those standards are to be "put in place" by the countries by 2020. There will be a UN Climate Aid fund to help poor countries reverse climate damaging practices in their countries so they may more quickly and easily conform to the new standards.
• Reuters: UN Climate Deal... (995) 0000-00-00 Reuters: "Climate negotiators [in Durban, S.A.] agreed [on] a pact on Sunday (11.12.11) that would for the first time force all the biggest polluters to take action on greenhouse gas emissions, but critics said the action plan was not aggressive enough to slow the pace of global warming."
• The Open Source Ecology web... (530) 0000-00-00 The OpenSourceEcology.org web site features a GVCS: Global Village Construction Set. The GVCS is "a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform (or set of pre-built tools) that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts."
• The WilderUtopia web site (967) 0000-00-00 If you have ever marveled at the existence of urban gardens setup in vacant lots and wanted to see or make more of them, wondered about roof-top gardens and high-rise buildings constructed with terraces for gardens and mini-forests, this is the web site for you. jgw 12.01.02
• TreeHugger: Over Half of... (539) 0000-00-00 Green Party member Alex Walker posted this TreeHugger.com article on the Green Party of California Facebook group 12.01.09.
• Wind Lens Could Replace Nuke... (606) 0000-00-00 Wake Up World (WUW) reports that the Japanese giant " wind lens" wind turbines can triple the power output of the now normal giant Dutch wind turbines. If over 2 million "wind lens" were deployed across the US prairies, nuclear power would not be necessary. 6 million might replace all nuke, coal, and natural gas powered power plants.
• The Open Energy Info web site (505) 0000-00-00

Economic Alternatives (weblinks)

• A "Mixed Economy" definition... (543) 0000-00-00 Thanks to the authors of "Winner Takes All Politics," Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson. They gave an update speech in the SF Bay Area in March 2012, a "what has changed" largely for the wose" since 2010. I (jgw) post their recommendation for an alternative economy now that the 0.1% plutocracy owns and controls almost everything including our government. One foreboding remark: if, say, Greens took over 25-40% of both houses of Congress, sadly still not likely, still there would be minority radical right obstructionist in Congress who would impose their take-it-or-leave-it rule!
• The My NCPlenty Alternative... (600) 0000-00-00 A liberal feminist "Hare Krishna" online younger friend of mine informed me Wednesday 12.05.30 that this "scrip money" local alternative economy has been working well for her and her friends for years! The google site which is the target of this link presents a recreation of the ncplenty.org web site's home page. It shows their "NC Plenty" sample currency, or scrip money, front and back views and the front side of the several denominations of those bills. See also the NCPlenty.org web site cited on this web site and information about the Green Party of California's "Greenback" bills ...examples coming soon to this web site.
• The NCPlenty.org web site... (644) 0000-00-00
• The Transaction.net web... (513) 0000-00-00 The NCPlenty.org web site which manages the scrip currency supply and membership lists for alternative local economies in North Carolina cites Transaction.net says "Local currencies have cycled in and out of popularity for the last two hundred years. They have often been issued during times of economic stress, when local resources - goods, talent, and labor - have been under-utilized." The Transaction.net site offers readings from Bernard Lietaer's book, "Community Currencies: A New Tool for the 21st Century." Lietaer's book offers a brief history of alternative currencies "from ancient Egypt through the 20th century." And Lietaer comments "Today, local currencies are again mushrooming all over the world in an impressive diversity and increasing sophistication. ... [T]he key to the success of a community currency, just as for any currency, is trust. In this case it is trust in your neighbors, in the community as a whole, and in the community's leaders."
• NYT: India's Microfinancing... (690) 0000-00-00 The New York Times of 10.11.17 reported that India's Micro-Finance system may collapse due to the recent inclusion of less scrupulous, for-profit micro-financeers. Apparently the for-profit micro-finance loan providers are gouging and coercing their micro loan holders imposing greater hard-ships on the poor, some suicides, and the entire India state of Anra Pradesh refusing to repay any micro-finance loans. That refusal in turn is putting financial pressure on the larger Indian banks which provide funds to the non-profit and for-profit micro-loan providers.
• Hour Exchange, Portland (874) 0000-00-00 The PBS News Hour program of 10.11.17 had a feature report about the new "Hour Exchange" barter system people in Portland and Corvalis Oregon have setup. The system allows blue-collar and white-collar people who's money resources are crippled in this "Great Recession" to still get and give goods and services to each other without using the normal broken money economy. Here is the Hour Exchange's Portland web site.
• NYT: Hour Exchanges in Maine... (622) 0000-00-00 The PBS News Hour of 10.11.17 explores new "Hour Exchange" programs in Maine and Oregon to "swap service time to help stretch dollars in (this) recession". See also: Hour Exchange, Portland. Also search on Facebook for "Hour Exchange".
• DN: The National Priorities... (612) 0000-00-00 As of January 2011 a new National Network of economic progressives in the USA is forming to help "We the People" in many states working at the grass-roots level find ways to improve our state and local economies with little to no help likely to come from the Federal government for several more years. See a reference to the "National Priorities Project" on the DemocracyNow.org progressive news show of 11.01.06.
• Nationalization (595) 0000-00-00 The WikiPedia defines Nationalization. Nationalization of US banks was suggested when the financial crisis of 2008 occurred. Some progressive economists continue to recommend that action to speed up the recovery from The Great Recession that followed. Some thought leaders in California want there to be a California State Bank that performs similar functions as a public national bank. It might provided more financial services at lower costs than can the too big to fail private banks. The services would include lower interest loans to small businesses, non-profit organizations and individuals of all socio-economic classes. Such banks might be, in part, a state-wide (or national) Grameen-type bank.
• WUW: Happy 69 y.o. woman has... (565) 0000-00-00 Wakeup-World.com reported in December 2011 of a 69 year old German woman who has lived without money for 22 years.
• BBC: Marx now more attractive (647) 0000-00-00 The BBC News service of 11.09.03 presented this opinion that in the wake of The Great Recession, more people are reconsidering the Economic philosophy of Karl Marx.
• BBC: BerkShares in use in... (656) 0000-00-00 The BBC of 11.09.06 reported that the people of Berkshire County in Massachusetts have been using their "Berk Shares," which county officials print, to bolster their small local economy. Berkshire has 19,000 people and created their Berk Shares in 2004. The Berk Share values are tied to the dollar, i.e. there is an exchange rate which the county can vary as necessary, shares-buy-so-many-dollars, dollars-buy-so-many-shares. Especially in the on-going Great Recession since 2008 the Berk Shares are easier to use than are dollars and keep most economic transactions and activity within the county. That in turn is better for their community.
• NYT: The Jobs Held By the... (599) 0000-00-00 The New York Times Sunday edition of 12.01.15 published this interactive graphic web page. It categorizes the jobs held by the wealthiest 1% of the US population who did not in fact produce all (or any) of that wealth, products and services. The 99% who create that wealth, who create almost all those products and services, might want to reconsider how they are employed and managed so that the 1% own almost everything of value.
• CD: 11 EU Nations Take on... (624) 0000-00-00 CD or CommonDreams.org web-published this story Thursday EU time, January 24, 2013 (13.01.24). Could Greens in any state get the state legislature to do something? Could Greens in California get the now Democrat-dominated and controlled two houses of the Calif. legislature to do something similar? They have a super-majority in both houses, but do they have the will to "bite" the hands of our financial elite who feed them campaign donations? But maybe THAT is the "hook" with which to embarrass both houses thoroughly and cause them to propose and pass similar Robin Hood legislation. jgw130124
• BBC: The Brixton Pound... (565) 0000-00-00 In September 2009, the county of Brixton in the United Kingdom instituted the Brixton Pound, a local currency of use just within the county of Brixton. Of course, like Berkshares in Berkshire, Massachusetts (created in 2007), the Brixton Pound was "pegged," or had an exchange rate, with the British Pound.
• NYT: Krugman: Bitcoin's... (473) 0000-00-00 Economist Paul Krugman's column in the Monday April 15, 2013 (13.04.15) New York Times summarized a cautionary tale about one alternative currency that "ran amok" most dramatically in the last few weeks, the digital currency Bitcoin.
• NYT: Krugman: 5 Years of... (484) 0000-00-00 Progressive (and Keynesian) Economist Paul Krugman writes in his Monday April 22, 2013 (13.04.22) column in the New York Times, put simply, five (5) years of indulging ourselves in "Debt Hysteria" has distracted us from what he calls "The Jobless Trap." In fact conservative "leaders" have caused the hysteria and done the leading since the Great Recession started in 2008, if only as the bully minority party in Congress! Will we thank them later?
• NYT: Krugman: Austerity on... (509) 0000-00-00 Economist Paul Krugman declares in his Friday April 26, 2013 (13.04.26) column in the New York Times that the last 5 years of population-punishing (i.e. screw the 99%) Government Austerity Programs has now been proven not just stupid but cruel. He worries that no one will care especially in the USA.

Economic Crises: The "Fiscal Cliff" of 2012 (weblinks)

• NYT: Krugman: Battles of the... (502) 0000-00-00 Princeton progressive professor of Economics, Dr. Paul Krugman, takes Congress and their New Years Eve half-baked solution to the "Fiscal Cliff" to task in his Friday January 4, 2013 (13.01.04) column in the New York Times.
• NYT: Krugman: Kick That Can... (530) 0000-00-00 In his Friday February 8, 2013 (13.02.08) column in the New York Times, progressive economist Paul Krugman took Speaker of the House, John Boehner, to task. Krugman found Boehner's metaphor and other rhetoric ridiculous, blaming Democrats who seem to be "kicking the can" down the road rather than help the oh-so-compassionate and concerned about the public welfare GOP, the 98%, demanding "we help" REDUCE TERRIBLE GOVERNMENT SPENDING (OMG, the DEFICIT, the Deficit !!!). Boehner has said that the national deficit will put every child and grandchild in debt for their entire lifetimes (which, btw, Krugman and others have repeated said it will not, pointing to Keynesian economics as a solution). Yet again Krugman makes his persistent yet still feeble attempt to appeal with facts and reason to the remaining rationality of the moderate less-violence-prone conservatives and to those liberals, all of whom think apparently at a clumsy 7th grade level. This "reporter" (JGW) wonders if the latter poor progressives and liberal "7th grade thinkers" are not already too poor and encumbered with crippling financial burdens from the continuing Great Recession and snail's-paced recovery to care.
• NYT: Krugman: Looking for... (517) 0000-00-00 In his Friday February 1, 2013 (13.02.01) column in the New York Times, progressive economist Paul Krugman compares the European Union's stunning lack of success with austerity programs with the USA's. Both regions are making little to no progress to recover from The Great Global Recession of 2008-09 which Wall Street and certain US Banks caused.

Economic Crises: True, False, So What? (weblinks)

• NYT: Revising Limits on the... (388) 0000-00-00 Attempts to privatize the Internet continue, according to this New York Times article of Friday March 02, 2012. In the 1990s small Internet Service Providers charged you for how fast you could send and receive data over a dial-up connection, your computer's telephone connection to the ISP's telephone. If you had a "primitive" 1990s-style web site, you paid your ISP who was also your web hosting service, a fee proportional to how many megabytes your server and any database took up on their server. 20 years later a few large corporations like AT&T, Spring, etc. have bought up almost all small the ISPs. Large corporations like Google, Amazon, and a few others have so many data centers world-wide with so much computing power and so much data storage capacity, they have created "The Cloud," a privatized exclusive sub-set of the Internet. Internet using customers can now have all their computing and data storage needs taken care of -- for a fee -- in The Cloud. Now some of these super-large corporations want to again charge you and me for how fast or slow our Internet data gets to or from your smart phone, tablet or laptop, for how much data storage in The Cloud we use, and which and how much we use software applications that only exist and run "in The Cloud."
• NYT: Krugman: States of... (410) 0000-00-00 Progressive economist Paul Krugman makes a simple compelling case for having the Federal Government get big loans at very low interest rates to pass on to the States as a very helpful, very much needed national economic stimulus package.
• NYT: Krugman: Ignorance is... (484) 0000-00-00 Progressive economist Paul Krugman, belatedly addressed the dire effects on public education of the "Great Recession" in his Friday 12.03.09 column in the New York Times. His article presents a good if superficial summary of the history of public education in the US.
• NYT: Krugman: What Greece... (331) 0000-00-00 Progressive economist Paul Krugman writes in his Monday 12.03.12 column in the New York Times, in effect, that Greece -- now officially in default financially -- is the new "poster child" for "austerity-induced depression." In my (JGW's) opinion, this is economic tyranny 101; the deliberate systematic oppression and enslavement of "the masses" of the workers. Italy is already under a kind of economic martial law in which the prime minister has been replaced without an election. Spain, Ireland, and Portugal may follow.
• BM&C: Gretchen Morgenson on... (393) 0000-00-00 The Bill Moyers and Company (BM&C) PBS commentary show of May 24, 2013 (13.05.24) opened with this 18 minutes long interview with leading liberal business journalist Gretchen Morgenson. In her discussion with Bill Moyers she gives us insights into why the "Banks Too Big To Fail" are still conducting business as usual and why they should be broken up.
• Progressive Economist... (327) 0000-00-00 More than he is able to say on Bill Moyers or Democracy Now, progressive economist Dr. Richard D. Wolff gives a great deal of simplified educational economic information on his web site, rdwolff.com. Those of us who listen to "Pacifica Radio" (e.g. KPFA, SF; KPFK, LA) get excerpts of this material in hour long talks with Q&A.
• NYT: Krugman: The Path Not... (389) 0000-00-00 In his Thursday 11.10.27 New York Times column, Economist Paul Krugman writing in Iceland, reminds us all that the Austerity Hawks of the last 3 years have been wrong, wrong, wrong! And the new Euro Zone agreement of Thursday to bail out Greece again -- and force EU banks to take a 50% loss -- proves his point.
• WP: OMB Study: Why Occupy... (432) 0000-00-00 The Washington Post of 11.10.28 summarized a recent report issued from the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The study titled "Trends in the Distribution of Household Income Between 1979 and 2007" shows in detail the recently widely reported evidence of "class warfare" that has occurred for the last 32 years. Assuming the Occupy Wall Street protesters don't already know, their protests are entirely justified if also, some could argue, overdue.
• NYT: Krugman: Bombs, Bridges... (457) 0000-00-00 In his 11.10.30 column in the New York Times, progressive economist Dr. Paul Krugman takes issue with the "weaponized Keynesians" in Congress (a.k.a. the war mongering Democrats). Let's all remember that in spite of FDR's New Deal and his successful national jobs programs in the 1930s, the only way out of the 10 years long Great Depression was World War II.
• NYT: Krugman: Europe's... (346) 0000-00-00 In his Monday 12.04.16 column in the New York Times progressive economist Paul Krugman writes about the cost in higher stress and in human lives in Europe's continuing economic crisis. Of course there are certainly no "public mental health funds" available to U.S. states now (in 2012) to help mediate such tragedies from happening in the USA.
• CR: IMF Summit in Wash. D.C.... (371) 0000-00-00 The PBS Charlie Rose Show of Friday 12.04.20 took place at the International Monetary Fund summit meeting in Washington, D.C. The participants were IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, Governor of the (central) Bank of Mexico Agust­n Carstens, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India Duvvuri Subbarao, Sweden's Finance Minister Anders Borg, and former member of U.S. President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, UC Berkely Professor Dr. Christina Romer. These five and others in the unelected IMF members will by majority rule determine roughly 80-90% of our future global economic policy or in their determinations they will reflect the policies set by some secret cabal of global corporations, who have more money than most countries, their conservative economic advisers and their attorneys. In any case, the 53 minute discussion is very revealing in lay person's language about the attitudes and generalizations of "establishment" economic theory and practice held by "those at the top." Without viable alternative economics, we the 99% may have to live with their economic and financial decisions whether we like the results or not. NO TRANSCRIPT IS AVAILABLE YET.
• NYT: Europe Tires of... (335) 0000-00-00 The front page of the New York Times of Monday 12.04.23 features this report declaring that Europe is tired of austerity programs imposed to get their countries out of the global recession the USA's Wall Street and our biggest banks caused in 2008. Paul Krugman and other progressive Keynesian (i.e. repeated economic stimulus endorsing) economists would likely call this a very predictable result. They also would very likely object to the previous 3.5 years of unnecessary suffering the populations of the countries which adopted the worst austerity measures have had to endure.
• NYT: Krugman: Failure of... (371) 0000-00-00 In his Friday 11.11.18 column in the New York Times, economist Paul Krugman wrote about how the collapse and failure of the Congressional Super Committee to resolve the US debt crisis is a good thing.
• NYT: Krugman: Oligarchs and... (481) 0000-00-00 In the Sunday New York Times, 14.04.06, progressive economist Paul Krugman, wrote about "Oligarchs and Money: are class interests (i.e. those of the 1%) perpetuating high unemployment?" (Ans: of course.)
• NYT: Krugman: Three... (409) 0000-00-00 In the Sunday New York Times, 14.04.13, progressive economist Paul Krugman commented on the previous week's report that the High Frequency Traders of Wall Street, using the fastest computers as do other computer traders but better and shorter length fiber optics to get to the Wall Street trading computer, are in effect cheating at the cost of billions of dollars to investors with "less fast computers" (i.e. long lenghts of fiber optic cable to get their digitized trading transaction information to that same Wall Street trading computer). Apparently many in the latter very much larger group of "very fast," but not fast enough, computer traders still believe that Wall Street computer-based trading provides "fair trading" with equal opportunites to trade, to buy and sell stocks by bidding prices for ALL traders. Not so. Not so for many years too. Not so by three costly milliseconds for the fastest of the High Frequency traders who will always beat-out the others, buy 1000s or millions of stocks, sell that stock milliseconds later at a slightly higher price and thus raise stock prices just a few cents or more for the less fast and average -speed computer traders! Wall Street IS A RACKET. And too many like it that way.
• BM&C: Krugman: What the 1%... (408) 0000-00-00 In this Bill Moyers and Company video interview with progressive economist Paul Krugman, which first aired Friday 14.04.18, Krugman elaborates on what the Oligarchy, the 1% most wealthy in the USA, are doing to enslave the rest of us... for decades to come and perpetuate class inequality for us, our children and grandchildren, etc. In this interview with Moyers, Krugman also joins in the praises for a new book "that’s the talk of academia and the media, 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century' by Thomas Piketty, a 42-year-old who teaches at the Paris School of Economics."
• BM&C: Krugman: Why We're in... (449) 0000-00-00 In this transcript, the Bill Moyers and Company web site web-published Wednesday 14.04.16 a "web reprint" of progressive economist Paul Krugman's remarks first published in-print in the "May 8, 2014" issue of the New York Review of Books magazine. In this essay Krugman praises French author-economist Thomas Piketty, Piketty's new book: "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" and the work of two U.C. Berkeley professors who contributed to the book by performing their recent, exhaustive, and uniquely state-of-the-art statistical analysis of over 100 years of economic data. They proved BEYOND ANY DOUBT the points Piketty made in his book. The three may have contributed to the composition of the explanations of the economic findings in lay person's language. In all cases the rabid pro-free-market radical right wingers, all of them rich, are literally at a loss for words to refute anything Piketty and team have published! Karl Marx would prase Piketty as well for dramatcially updating Marxism!
• NYT: Super Committee to 99%:... (356) 0000-00-00 The New York Times of Monday 11.11.21 reported the expected deadlock of the Congressional Super Committee to reach an compromise on cutting government spending, tax cuts and raising tax revenues. In effect the economy and the 99% are screwed (stuck in an economic pit) for the next several years through 2014 whether the Super Committee reached agreement or not. One glaring message of the entire Super Committee exercise has been: government doesn't function, government doesn't matter, Congress people will never get along, maybe survival of the fittest libertarian free markets are a better way. I hope not.
• NYT: Krugman: The Death of a... (328) 0000-00-00 Progressive economist Paul Krugman wrote in his Friday 12.04.27 column in the New York Times that, in effect, "the financial confidence fairy died this week." Building the confidence of wealthy investors, now reluctant to invest, with severe fiscal austerity imposed on the rest of us has been the mantra of the GOP in the US and conservatives abroad since the Economic Crisis of 2008. The belief in the confidence fairy may be dying among more misleading conservatives, but the legislative will to resume economic stimulus packages including job programs is sorely lacking. Such a simple Keynesian-style economic recovery will not happen this year or in 2013 as well with current conservative legislatures in the US!
• Common Dreams: Krugman:... (584) 0000-00-00 It this article on the Common Dreams web site of Friday 14.04.18 is not progressive economist Paul Krugman finally losing his composure and crying "the end of the progressively more progressive economic world is upon us," I don't know what else it could be.
• NYT: Krugman: Wasting Our... (333) 0000-00-00 In his Monday 12.04.30 column in the New York Times, progressive economist Paul Krugman points out the ever more likely destruction of the futures of "the youngest two generations" in the U.S. by the continuing Great Recession. And it is not just US youth who are already suffering.
• NYT: Brooks: The Piketty... (444) 0000-00-00 French Economist and "Capital in the 21st Century" book author Thomas Piketty is certainly getting a lot of press lately. David Brooks, a non-polarizing moderate conservative columnist for the New York Times, provided his less flattering $0.02 on Piketty Thursday 14.04.24. Brook's reputation as a conservative is still secure as a result.
• NYT: Krugman: The... (442) 0000-00-00 French Economist and "Capital in the 21st Century" book author Thomas Piketty is certainly getting a lot of press lately. Economist Paul Krugman, a staunchly progressive columnist for the New York Times who now confesses publicly that he overlooked for years Piketty's unique and profound insights and analyses, provided Thursday 14.04.24 his $100.02 on Piketty and the right-wing's panic about Piketty's new-found popularity among the more thoughtful progressives in the USA. In short: the right-wing is now speech-less and dumb-founded. And Piketty's logic is much better than Karl Marx's!
• BM&C: Chris Hedges on... (554) 0000-00-00 July 20, 2012, Bill Moyers and Company presented Chris Hedges for the hour. He talked about Capitalism's "Sacrifice Zones, areas that have been destroyed [to increase] quarterly profit." Paraphrasing: these are zones in society that are made more miserable and more poor and in effect are "left to rot," today because the depressed economy of too many municipalities and many US state governments have not recovered that much since the 2008 Financial Collapse and cannot afford to help, if they ever did so before The Great Recession. A transcript is also available on the BM&C web site.
• NYT: Banks Fear Breakup of... (389) 0000-00-00 The New York Times of Friday 11.11.25 reported that US, UK, Japanese and other world class banks are preparing a "Plan B" in case the Euro Zone collapses and the EU begins to break up.
• NYT: Piketty at CUNY School... (448) 0000-00-00 April 16, 2014, French global inequality researcher and author Thomas Piketty spoke at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Economics about his new book "Capital in the 21st Century," just released and already a best-seller. He spoke for about 25 minutes of the 1 hour and 30 minutes recording. Following his prepared remarks, a panel of three (3) fellow economists each researching aspects of inequality make their own 10-12 minutes long presentations to explain what they have learned about inequality from Piketty's research. I (JGW) found these were more "down-to-earth," understandable (for a non-economist) and immediately relevant explanations to our present and immediate future in the USA than were Piketty's remarks. But each panelist speakers time to elaborate on the important points they identified was cut much too short. Take and save 'screen-pictures' of the slides they presented for your own reflections later and hope for a subsequent longer and even more down-to-earth lecture from each panelist to elaborate on their points properly. Progressive economist Joseph Stiglitz (U. Columbia in NYC) was the first to present (starting ~37 minutes-in but taking 15 minutes). Progressive economist Paul Krugman (Princeton, to be CUNY after July 2014) was second to speak and the most down-to-earth (starting ~52 minutes-in for 10 minutes). Steven Durlauf (U. Wisconsin-Madison) followed (~1:03 in for 12 minutes) with some actual criticisms of the Piketty's book. Branco Milanovic (starting ~1:18 in with little time left), the time-keeper and moderator for the 3 panelists finished the 90 minutes by posing some questions to Piketty, Stiglitz and Krugman to get their additional remarks. Ignore the first three minutes of the introduction. Skip the next 5.5 to 6 minutes (for a total of 9.5) if you are re-viewing the video stream. Fast-forward to the start-times indicated above to re-view a particular speaker's presentation.
• Atlantic: How Did Canada's... (492) 0000-00-00 In the last 30 years while the USA's middle class was being slowly destroyed by subversive, destructive reward-the-rich right-wing trickle down economics that never stopped after Ronald Reagan left office as President, Canada's middle class slowly and steadily got richer. But Canada is supposed to get a cold when the US sneezes! What happened? The Atlantic online magazine presented this article by Derek Thompson of April 22, 1014, explaining this grossly under-reported trend.
• NYT: Krugman: Thinks to Tax... (380) 0000-00-00 Economist Paul Krugman wrote in his Monday 11.11.28 column for the New York Times that if taxed normally the super-rich can go a long way to reduce the national deficit and improve the US economy. (Doh!)
• BM&C: J.Stiglitz Interview,... (492) 0000-00-00 Also titled "(US citizens, the 99%) Let's Stop Subsidizing Tax Dodgers," (i.e. the super-wealthy Corporate Elite in the USA) this show first aired on PBS stations nation-wide on May 30, 2014 (14.05.30). This is an interview on the PBS show Bill Moyers and Company (BM&C) between 80+ years-old exceptional progressive life-long journalist Bill Moyers and progressive economist Dr. Joseph Stiglitz and it lasts 22 minutes. It is the first of two May-June 2014 BM&C interviews with Dr. Stiglitz, both noted and linked-to on this CAGI web site. I, JGW, play the video stream and "rewind" it every minute or two to memorize the concepts, new words and phrases. I figure if I can remember all of that really basic 7th-grade-level (simple) economic stuff, I can then look for more details I can understand online and pick books and eBooks on the subjects I can also more easily understand. In short: economists Stiglitz, Paul Krugman, Robert D. Wolfe all tend to "tell-it-like-it-is" about the US Economy and how we, including the TEA PARTY-ers on the far right, have been seduced by the dark sides of the evil economic Cronie Capitalism that has existed for the last 30-35 years between the richest 0.1% of Americans (10% of the 1% most wealthy) and screwed the rest of us, the 99%, back into the poverty and anti-union days of the 1920s and Great Depression years, all but wiping out completely FDR's Great New Deal. LEARN ALL ABOUT how we've been screwed at least so no radical right-winger ever screws you again!
• BM&C: J.Stiglitz Interview,... (575) 0000-00-00 Subtitled in Part I as "(US citizens, the 99%) Let's Stop Subsidizing Tax Dodgers," (i.e. the super-wealthy Corporate Elite in the USA) this second show, Part II of 2, first aired on PBS stations nation-wide on May 30, 2014 (14.06.06). This part II continues an interview on the PBS show Bill Moyers and Company (BM&C) between 80+ years-old exceptional progressive life-long journalist Bill Moyers and progressive economist Dr. Joseph Stiglitz and it also lasts 22 minutes. It is the second of two May-June 2014 BM&C interviews with Dr. Stiglitz, both noted and linked-to on this CAGI web site. In short: (1) all total (part 1 & 2) you have 44 minutes for 7th-grade-level progressive economics to think about here. (2) And to repeat: Economists Stiglitz, Paul Krugman, Robert D. Wolfe all tend to "tell-it-like-it-is" about the US Economy and how we, including the TEA PARTY-ers on the far right, have been seduced by the dark sides of the evil economic Cronie Capitalism that has existed for the last 30-35 years between the richest 0.1% of Americans (10% of the 1% most wealthy) and screwed the rest of us, the 99%, back into the poverty and anti-union days of the 1920s and Great Depression years, all but wiping out completely FDR's Great New Deal. LEARN ALL ABOUT how we've been screwed at least so no radical right-winger ever screws you again!
• NYT: Krugman: EU+US Damn... (401) 0000-00-00 In his column in the Friday 11.12.02 New York Times, progressive economist Paul Krugman issues another well supported cry of alarm, in effect: The EU and US continue to ignore Keynesian Economics at our peril. Keynesian Econ would have the EU and US creating more stimulus packages, forgiving or restructuring mortgage debt, etc. rather than imposing increased austerity programs that, Krugman says, are certain to destroy both our economies.
• NYT: Krugman: Apocalypse... (355) 0000-00-00 The title says it all. In Nobel prize winning professor Krugman's Friday 12.05.18 claims economic conditions in the Greece and the European Union more strongly suggest their economic collapse is imminent.
• DN: Krugman: End This... (565) 0000-00-00 In the Democracy Now broadcast of Thursday 12.05.17, host Amy Goodman interviewed Noble prize winning Princeton professor of economics, Dr. Paul Krugman for the hour. His responses were succinct and contained dire warnings for the US, EU, and possibly the global economy. His Keynsian solutions were simple, few, and could reverse economic disaster in 1-2 years!
• DN: Krugman: Strongly Urge... (493) 0000-00-00 In the Democracy Now broadcast of Thursday 12.05.18, New York Times columnist and Nobel price winning Princeton professor of economics Dr. Paul Krugman outlined his view of the need for JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon to resign immediately. JPMorgan Chase is the biggest bank, by total monetary assets, of any of the few "big banks too big to fail" in the USA. Dimon oversaw the $2.1 billion loss to the bank made by a London-based "hedge fund" manager who in effect committed an illegal trade. That phoney hedge trade resulted in the huges losses which JPMorgan suffered in the early part of the week ending Saturday 12.05.20.
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• NYT: Krugman: Fiscal Phonies... (329) 0000-00-00 In his Monday 12.05.26 New York Times column (submitted 12.05.27 after Memorial Day), Dr. Paul Krugman heaped scathing criticism on Chris Christie, xxx of New Jersey, for being a "basic" or "classic" modern day fiscal phoney. I.e. CC talks out of both sides of his mouth; double-talk; smoke and mirrors. Open Question: In what other US States are there similar "fiscal phonies" hard at work spewing their propaganda to the public and to their state legislatures? How long have they been spewing like this? Causing what deleterious (harmful, crippling) effects to "the public good?" (The 99%)
• WH: Employment Report Nov.... (418) 0000-00-00
• NYT: Krugman: The Austerity... (505) 0000-00-00 Progressive economist and New York Time columnist Paul Krugman filed this commentary from London for his Friday 12.06.01 column. As he has been doing more candidly for the last 1-2 months, in this column he puts his spotlight on the, I would say, vicious deception conservative government leaders are employing to force austerity measures on all the developed countries. The less developed countries will have no choice but to take their own austerity measure; their economies won't allow them to do otherwise. My (jgw's) several questions remain not yet directly answered by Kruman: Who wins what rewards from these currently 4 years of austerity? How do the 1% or 0.1% with almost all our money win? Besides effectively reinforcing their ownership and control of several government leaders and the legislatures of those governments, what else do they win; how else can they own and control the means of production, who does the producing, and what will be their ability to unionize and have adequate health care and work-place safety? Do they care about "the public interest" their tyranical economic austerity measure damage and if so to what, if any, degree?
• NYT: Krugman: This... (361) 0000-00-00 Progressive economist Dr. Paul Krugman writes in his Monday 12.06.4 column in the New York Times that, like FDR, Obama can blame the economy on the do-nothing Republicans. (yawn)
• NYT: Krugman: Now Call It a... (409) 0000-00-00 Economist Paul Krugman makes the linguistic leap others have avoided since the 2008 "recession" began. In his Monday 11.12.12 column in the New York Times he declares Europe's financial problems, even with the recently agreed upon fixes to them, will pull all of us into a Depression.
• NYT: Krugman: Reagan Was a... (352) 0000-00-00 In his Friday 12.06.08 column, progressive economist Dr. Paul Krugman compares the economic improvement strategies of former President Ronald Reagan with current president Barack Obama. It turns out Reagan was a Keynesian; he stimulated the economy by spending billions on new war materiel! Obama, however, certainly has continued George W. Bush's war spending possibly winding down both the illegal Iraq war and the prolonged quagmire called the Afghanistan war which happens to bomb Pakistan often as well. His detractors make much of this "war mongering" and "war spending." But Obama has been prevented at every turn since the stimulus package he signed in late 2009 from having any second stimulus or jobs program get considered or passed by a deadlocked Congress. No bill; no bill for Obama to sign; no help for the 99%. And yet Republican "damn Obama" angry deceptive attacks on Obama for damaging the economy continue.
• NYT: Krugman: We Don't Need... (339) 0000-00-00 Progressive economist, Dr. Paul Krugman, wrote in his Monday 12.06.14 column in the New York Times that likely GOP candidate for President Mitt Romney is preaching that "we in the US don't need no better education." That implies we don't need the re-employment of the legions of recently laid-off educators in states with budget crises which that same-as-in 2000 or 1990 education or better education will require. And this policy he proclaims will be imposed on the USA, if he is elected, even though he promises to provide so many more fire-fighters and police. But probably no chickens or tofurkey in a pot to hungry families either.
• NYT: Krugman: Greece as... (348) 0000-00-00 Progressive economist, Dr. Paul Krugman, wrote in his Friday 12.06.17 column in the New York Times that Greece, while in fact borrowing and spending "too much" since joining the EU, is also being made the scape goat of the "Austerity Hawks" who have dominated Europe's and the EU's financial policy making since the "Global Economic Crash of 2007-2008."
• NYT: Socialist Helped Broker... (364) 0000-00-00 Paraphrasing the article in the Friday 12.06.29 New York Times, France's new socialist President Hollande was the key catalyst that broke Germany's insistence that austerity programs solve the EU's dire financial problems. Apparently President Hollande organized a "troika" of France, Italy and Spain to persuade Germany and other reluctant EU countries to agree to "debt sharing" of the sovereign (government) debt owed other countries and super-rich investors by Greece, Ireland, Spain, Portugal and Italy.
• NYT: Krugman: (loanable)... (371) 0000-00-00 Yet another weekly chapter from Dr. Paul Krugman, Princeton U. Economist and columnist for the New York Times. In his Friday 12.07.28 episode we again are shocked, SHOCKED!, to discover that "the global and US economies" are not exactly what the "very important (right-wing) people" are telling us it is. In short: we the people could be clamoring for federal and state "jobs programs" now! The U.S. Government and states can get big loans to pay for them now at dirt-cheap interest rates. So why wait until 2013?
• NYT: Krugman: Crashing (EU)... (364) 0000-00-00 Progressive economist Dr. Paul Krugman wrote in his Monday 12.07.27 column in the New York Times that the European Central Bank is reluctantly "turning to face and defy the austerity hawks" in the EU. The austerity hawks, including Chancelor Merkel of Germany and former President Sarkozy of France, are widely regarded as the cause of the painful cut-backs, layoffs, and prolonged recessions imposed on their home countries, and the populations of neighboring countries in the EU. In other words (mine, jgw's) the ECB may have to act in "pro-main-street" sorts of way if only to save itself as an institution first and have a banking "play pen" to play in in the future.
• NYT: Krugman: Debt,... (345) 0000-00-00 In his Friday 12.08.03 New York Times column, progressive economist Paul Krugman continues to watch the struggle in EU nations to muster the courage to do financially what must be done to overcome the "Great Recession." Bush era acting director of US Housing and Finance agency Ed DeMarco takes no steps to effect debt relief including mortgage adjustments and keep more "under-water" home owners in their homes, not put out on the streets. Krugman's opening sentence summarizes the US political and economic predicament: "the overriding story of the past few years is not Mr. Obama€™s mistakes but the scorched-earth opposition of Republicans, who have done everything they can to get in his way €” and who now, having blocked the president€™s policies, hope to win the White House by claiming that his policies have failed." The following opinions are entirely my own, jgw's: For all this continued wide spread official reluctance to turn away from "austerity measures" in the EU, and in the USA that caused these problems, still you can't say in public the words "Keynesian Economics," as in "more stimulus programs get you out of depressions, I mean recessions, so much quicker and with less pain!" So what? Refusing to "recover" with stimulus packages and jobs programs, just lets the super-rich gobble up more of the smaller struggling private companies, their able competition, and economically force the privatization of essential public goods (assets like public buildings) and public service agencies. Who wins? Not the public. The super-rich at the very least win persistent if not also greater opportunities to purchase struggling state and local agencies and publicly funded infrastructure at an extremely low price. They will privatize them, reduce the costs of ownership and operation while pretending to offer the same or better standards of care or service. Because their activities will be less regulated or supervised by independent agencies serving the "public good," somehow they will reduce not only the costs of running their privatized businesses but also the quality and quantity of the formerly public services they provide and thereby increase their personal profits as well as their strangle hold over the general public. E.g. in the USA there is the current controversy of the pending bankruptcy of US Post Office. There are 100s of public school facilities state and local governments could no longer support, sold and turned into for-profit schools for the most wealthy. There are more privatized privately run prisons, with unknown increased levels of violence and abuse and the faster diminishing likelihood of prisoner rehabilitation. There are privatized community police and fire fighting services. All of these privatized service operations over time become more and more self-serving, less and less transparent, and less obedient to their community and state clients who's public moneies pay for their privatized operating expenses. Then the "privateers" become more and more compromising of their contracted obligations to benefit society at large while the public gets more and more apathetic about this business as usual. We the people, by out inaction have surrendered to a greedy Socialized Plutocracy. Big corporations increasingly on the public dole, taking billions in tax payer money to help the corporations survive, thrive, and dominate all of society and all governments. To hell with the people who pay those taxes. The super-rich owners of those corporations end up controlling and selling everything, every good and service, to the general public that enables their very lives and what few shallow fleeting pleasures in life they may still pursue.
• Executive Paywatch (582) 0000-00-00 Executive Paywatch is a service of the AFL-CIO which began the service in May 2011.
• NYT: The Unwisdom of... (566) 0000-00-00 Less charitably rephrased, the New York Time column of 11.05.09 by Economist Paul Krugman might read: "The vicious self-serving propaganda of the shills of the Plutocrat's New World Order". In any case, these malicious brain washing policy pundits are the real enemy that progressives need to defeat in every public arena. The establishment Democrats haven't shown they have a clue how to defeat them.
• TO: Krugman: Economic... (912) 0000-00-00 In a TruthOut.org (TO) article of 11.07.07, progressive economist and New York Time columnist, Dr Paul Krugman, discusses the more depressing and dis-empowering emotional aspects of The Great Recession.
• Contract Peonage by Ralph... (667) 0000-00-00 On Ralph Nader's web site there is this essay about Contract Peonage posted on 11.05.31. Like your cell phone contract, in many other areas of business services which present a contract which the consumer must sign, that business in effect puts that consumer into a kind of economic slavery for 1-2+ more years to come. The credit card contracts changed by the credit providers unilaterally to their advantage without need of consumer agreement, may have been the precursor scam to the modern day cell phone and insurance contract peonage.
• DN: Ralph Nader: Obama is a... (759) 0000-00-00 Democracy Now, DemocracyNow.org, on 11.07.19 presented this interview with longtime consumer advocate Ralph Nader. Nader scorns President Obama for passing over Dr. Elizabeth Warren who invented and staffed the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department in favor of nominating as the bureau leader a less well informed male with questionable political allegiances. Nader also speaks very briefly about the relatively new business trend to coerce consumers into "contract peonage", a kind of willing (or unwitting) economic slavery.
• NYT: The Lesser Depression (558) 0000-00-00 In his Friday column of the 11.07.22 New York Times, noble prize winning economist Dr. Paul Krugman declares the US and the EU are facing a prolonged Lesser Depression. He claims we are being forced into this depression by the Smart People who really control public debate and policy making in our respective national and state governments. Why "they" would do so is a question yet to be properly explored.
• DN: Wealth Gap Now Greater... (756) 0000-00-00 Democracy Now of 11.07.28 featured this interview with sociologist and demographer Dr. Roderick Harrison of Howard University. Harrison discussed the implications of a recently publicized study showing much wider differences, the worst in the last 40 years, in the net incomes of whites, blacks, hispanics and other minorities in the USA since the Great Recession of 2008. Ahh, the incessant malicious capitalist social engineering that most benefits the super-rich. It is a horrifying wonder to behold.
• DN: Economist Richard Wolff... (502) 0000-00-00 On Democracy Now 11.07.28, retired Economist Dr. Richard Wolff commented extensively yet in simple terms about the US Debt Crisis. He claims it was created -- somewhat intentionally -- over the last 40 years by the super-rich and the self-serving capitalists. They have had the money (and superior legal understanding) to change US tax laws and to add more laws making corporations super-persons, more important and powerful in-the-law than are real individual human beings.
• NYT: The Moderate... (565) 0000-00-00 Progressive Economist Dr. Paul Krugman commented in the New York Times of 11.07.29 about Obama's consistent mistake of bending too far to the right to appease the GOP radicals in Congress. He also criticizes the news media for perpetuating the myth that being in the "center" politically is always the better place to be, i.e. facts, reason, and truth be damned.
• DN: Debt Crisis Agreement of... (510) 0000-00-00 The Democracy Now news broadcast (and stream) of 11.08.02 opened with an interview with progressive economist Dr. Michael Hudson and author William Hartung about who wins the most from the Debt Crisis Agreement signed by President Obama 11.08.02. The winners are not the American People.
• CR: Banker Rober Rubin gives... (870) 0000-00-00 Banker Robert Rubin appearing on the 11.08.02 Charlie Rose show on US public television stations summarizes a somewhat liberal position about the alleged debt crisis, the ongoing recession, and the need for (tax) revenues. Video, but no transcript.
• UCTV: 13 Bankers - The Wall... (577) 0000-00-00 89 minutes long video stream including 35 minutes of Q&A. Dr. Simon Johnson, Prof. of Entrepreneurship at MIT, former chief economist for the International Monetary Fund, spoke at the Univ. of California Santa Barbara on February, 15, 2011. As a moderate conservative, he presented a very balanced analysis of the financial crisis of 2008, the bailout that followed, and the current state of national and international finance which will inevitably lead to yet another, but worse, financial crisis. At 1 hour, 29 minutes into the program (a few minutes from the end) a questioner points out that F.D.Roosevelt allowed Senator Rockefeller to revise the existing 1930s corporate charter to remove the requirement that corporations had to benefit the social good. Dr. Johnson dismisses the claim.
• UCTV: Robert Reich: The Next... (538) 0000-00-00 Progressive economist and former US Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration, Dr. Robert Reich, spoke at the University of California Berkeley International House some time in Feb-March 2011. UCTV first broadcast the recording of the 55 minute talk on April 4, 2011. He presented his talk on March 17, 2011, a few days after the Japan 9.3 earthquake and the Fukushima nuclear plant meltdowns. In summary: "He addresses why income and wealth have become so concentrated at the top -- more concentrated than at any time since 1928 -- and the consequences of such concentration, both for the economy and for politics. Then he addresses what, if anything, can or should be done about it."
• UCTV: Ralph Nader:... (488) 0000-00-00 In June 2001, UCTV broadcast this 54 minutes long lecture delivered by public interest attorney Ralph Nader. Nader presented his progressive views at the Univ. of California at Berkeley a few weeks earlier.
• UCTV: Ralph Nader: On... (522) 0000-00-00 In August 2002, UCTV broadcast this 59 minutes long lecture delivered by public interest attorney Ralph Nader. Nader presented his progressive views at the Univ. of California at Berkeley a few weeks earlier.
• NYT: Krugman: The Wrong... (518) 0000-00-00 Progressive Economist, Dr. Paul Krugman, had these "I told you so" remarks in the 11.08.05 New York Times, less than 24 hours after the US Stock Market lost almost 5% of it's value on 11.8.3, in turn just 1 day after President Obama signed the Debt Reduction Act coerced by the minority of right wing radicals who control the US Congress.
• NYT: Krugman: The (Romney)... (368) 0000-00-00 "Vote for Mitt Romney as President or Republicans will destroy the economy with their continuing Senate filibuster minority rule of the USA in the next four years if Obama has a second term." Obama won't be a "Lame Duck" president, the conventional label for a second term president. He will be a "Dead Duck" president. A zombie President. [That is my, JGW's, term.] Progressive economist Paul Krugman says in his Friday 12.11.02 column in the New York Times that this is the real message [the subliminal message] of the Romney campaign. Read Krugman's Op-Ed, think about it, and weep that the nation's choice of voting for the lesser of Two Party evil candidates has come to this: almost literally a gun pointed at the head of the 99%. This is yet another extraordinarily high hurdle for progressives to overcome, a new low in sordid political-social election practice to turn-around, if and when we ever field more candidates and gain more political leadership positions in US, state, and local government.
• NYT: US S&P Bond Rating... (574) 0000-00-00 Well the right wing radicals in Congress and on Wall Street did it. On 11.08.05, three days after Congress agreed to an increase in the US Debt Ceiling, a simple act intentionally delayed by the minority Tea Party Republicans for weeks, the Standards and Poor rating (S&P) agency lowered the USA's Long Term Bond Rating from AAA to AA+. Interestingly neither Moodys or Fitch rating agencies lowered their AAA ratings for the US. This is the first time in the US's 225+ year history this has happened. The US credit worthiness is now less than that of France, the UK, Germany, Japan, China... The USA is now officially a second-rate developed nation. However one can argue convincingly -- with ample evidence from the news -- that the S&P is a willing conspirator in the libertarian free-marketeering F500-funded effort to discredit and cripple the US government, privatize education and health care, even the military, and eliminate all entitlement programs.
• NYT: S&P Threatens US... (534) 0000-00-00 One day after the Standards and Poors stocks and bonds rating agency downgraded USA long term bond credit rating from AAA to AA+, and after receiving much criticism for doing so, the S&P threatened the US government with additional downgrades. In short: the S&P overestimated the federal debt by $2 trillion! Was this an opportunistic rush to judgement? NYT 11.08.06
• NYT: Krugman: US S&P Rating... (553) 0000-00-00 The only debt crisis is the one manufactured by the radical right in the Republican Party. So says Economist Dr. Paul Krugman in his 11.08.08 column in the New York Times. For those not good with the math, he graciously supplies the answers for us.
• NYT: Dow Plunges 600 points (542) 0000-00-00 On Monday 11.08.08 the Dow plunged 600 points after stock sell-offs had rippled through Asian and European Markets in the previous 18-24 hours (their Monday). This almost certainly signals the beginning of a double-dip recession. NYT 110808 In this poster's opinion, progressives need a much more compelling set of arguments for Keynesian Economics. The arguments must lead the 7th grade adult mind to the conclusion that more government initiated economic stimuli and a jobs programs are necessary. Otherwise the huge right-wing austerity police public relations wave in the US and EU that says massive cuts in government spending (not on the military) are the only way to recovery. And that policy will cripple both the US and EU for decades to come.
• PBS: Krugman et al: A Lesser... (625) 0000-00-00 Progressive Princeton University economist Dr. Paul Krugman spoke on the PBS News Hour program 11.08.08. He offered his opinion that we are in for a "Lesser Depression", something worse than The Great Recession the US and EU have had since 2008. The two other speakers in the segment were Harvard University's Ken Rogoff and Terry Belton of JPMorgan Chase. 12 minutes.
• NYT: As California Exits The... (500) 0000-00-00 The New York Times of Tuesday, 12.11.27, touted California Governor Jerry Brown and his winning Proposition 30 to raise taxes as one of several indicators that California is recovering from the Great Recession caused by Wall Street in 2007-08. And "as California goes, so goes the rest of the nation."
• NYT: Fitch Rating Service... (376) 0000-00-00 The three foremost financial rating agencies in the US are Standard and Poors (S&P), Fitch, and Moody's, each of whom had been coerced in the run-up to the 2008 Mortgage Meltdown and World Financial Crisis to give AA and AAA rating to corrupt derivative trading companies. S&P said in the first week of August 2011 that the US has dropped from AAA to AA+. But on 11.08.16, the Fitch Rating agency confirmed that in it's opinion the US is still a AAA nation financially. Who is right and why? NYT 110816
• NYT: US Eyes S&P Ratings of... (358) 0000-00-00 Better late than never... NYT 11.08.17
• DV: The Great Social... (373) 0000-00-00 On Sunday 12.16.12 DissidentVoice.org (DV) web-published this scathing progressive rebuttal to the radical right wing propaganda that would have Congress vote to destroy the Social Security system and have most of the US population believe that is the only way to save it! Please "take notes" how the right has re-framed the issues in their favor, as usual, and how we progressives need to do the reverse to be at least as effective as the right.
• NPR: The New Years 2013... (330) 0000-00-00 NPR.org (USA National Public Radio) reported January 2, 2013, (13.01.02) this continually updated summary of the Congressional efforts to agree to a solution to the end-of-2012 fiscal problems the GOP has labeled "The Fiscal Cliff."
• NYT: Krugman: Bernanke's... (389) 0000-00-00 As of Friday a.m. 11.08.26 U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was scheduled to give a speech at the Jackson Hole Wyoming meeting of many first-world financial leaders. Progressive economist Paul Krugman questions whether the political climate in the US (and EU) can possibly allow real improvements to the U.S. economy to happen. In fact later that day in his speech Bernanke confirmed the Fed would do next to nothing except perhaps quantitative easing round 3 (QE3) (US bond buy-backs instead of printing more money) in the months ahead.
• NYT: Krugman: The Obsession... (402) 0000-00-00 Economist Paul Krugman writes in his Monday 12.01.02 column that "nobody understand debt" in the current political climate in the USA and Europe. In short: Families owe debt to others, such as mortgages and car loans they should repay. Governments owe debt to the people, i.e. to themselves. There is no economic need to quickly or ever repay the debts a government owes to its own people. Keynesian economics 101. Britain has been an exceptional example of how this works for 170 years.
• Econ: Bernanke Passes the... (400) 0000-00-00 The Economist magazine of 11.08.26 compared Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke's remarks of 1 year ago (2010) in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to his remarks of August 2011.
• NYT: Krugman: Bain, Barack... (389) 0000-00-00 In the New York Times of Friday 12.01.06, economist Paul Krugman summarized the latest economic illusions he claims GOP candidate Mitt Romney would have the US electorate believe.
• BBC: EU criticises (US)... (379) 0000-00-00 The BBC reported Saturday 12.01.14 criticism from many EU countries regarding Standard and Poor's lowering of the sovereign credit ratings of several EU countries including France and the previously downgraded Portugal, Spain, and Italy. Nine (9) of the 17 euro-using EU countries received a credit downgrade from the S&P. The S&P is one of the big three stocks and bonds rating services of Wall Street which consistently grossly over-rated mortgage-based derivative stocks for years in the 2000s, the collapse of which market caused the world-wide financial crisis of 2008 to the present. Clearly rating agencies like the S&P and Wall Street continue to have more control over sovereign debt and how that debt will be remedied than do the governments holding that debt.
• NYT: S&P Downgrades Nine EU... (389) 0000-00-00 The New York Times reported Friday 12.01.13 the implications of the most recent downgrading of the international credit ratings of nine EU countries by the Standards and Poor's rating agency. The S&P's most recent downgrade includes France for the first time; downgraded from AAA to AA+. Germany retains its AAA rating.The S&P downgraded the USA months earlier from AAA to AA+.
• NYT: Krugman: How Fares the... (395) 0000-00-00 On Martin Luther King day, 2012, progressive economist Paul Krugman says: "Goodbye Jim Crow. Hello Class System." Since 1963 and advent of the civil rights movement, racism in the USA has subsided. There is diversity of color and ethnic origins at all income levels in 2012. However since 1980, the income differences between rich, upper-middle-class, middle-class and poor have become so extreme, the income class your parents were born into will be the income class you and your children will never get out of. A stalemated class war is the new normal.
• NYT: Foreclosure Auctions... (522) 0000-00-00 The New York Times of Monday 12.01.16, Martin Luther King day, reports that home foreclosure auctions demonstrate capitalism at its rawest. Not only do bidders win homes for less than half their original mortgage value, many of the bidders work for rich investors in Canada, China, and other countries. The middle-class is all but destroyed. America's most cherished long term investment for the middle-class, the family home, is increasingly for sale only to the wealthiest Americans. If not for sale, it will become rental property with the landlord most likely living overseas. We are indeed Planet Earth's newest largest third-world nation and we are not in the "developing nation" class.
• NYT: Soaring Poverty... (375) 0000-00-00 Who says the Financial Meltdown of 2007-2008, the casino gambling with investors' money on Wall Street and the "Lier Loans" mortgage catastrophe were not intentional? Who says former Treasury Secretary Paulson's demand for a trillion dollar bailout of the To-Big-To-Fail Banks and Financial Firms was not "part of the plan?" At least by their depraved indifference to the kinds of financial greed and fraud that would erupt in a deregulated "free for all" market place. Consider their mis-deeds, their profits today, the increased power of the global corporations in which they hold shares. Then consider the New York Times article of 11.09.14 reporting new poverty numbers for the USA. Was it "just" a Lost Decade under W. Bush or a planned economic collapse?
• Reuters: US Recovery at Risk... (350) 0000-00-00 Reuters new service reported 12.01.18 that Americans, half of whom are now poor, are raiding their savings and pensions to get through economic tough times. The reduction in savings kept in bank accounts reduces the bank's ability to make loans that might help improve economic recovery. Pension funds are also held in banks.
• NYT: Krugman: Ben Bernanke,... (328) 0000-00-00 In his Friday March 1, 2013 (13.03.01) column in the New York Times, progressive economist Paul Krugman praises his former colleague at Princeton, current U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke for, in effect, speaking truth to "media power," in particular speaking the truth about the big bad scary deficit to the cabal of "experts" who say the deficit is REALLY BIG, BAD, and SCARY... and are jumping to the false conclusion that we, the USA, need severe national and state austerity programs to hurt even more the majority of the 98% of Americans already facing home foreclosures, no job prospects, or 50% cuts in wages and salaries if they were recently laid off and managed to find another job!
• NYT: Krugman: Austerity,... (335) 0000-00-00 In his February 224, 2013 (13.02.25) column in the New York Times, progressive economist Paul Krugman summarized how austerity programs now mandated to be in effect in Italy are slowing Italy's recovery from financial hardship. He also points out how some of the same "austerity hawks" have done similar damage elsewhere in the EU.
• NYT: Krugman: Sequester of... (338) 0000-00-00 In his Friday February 22, 2013 (13.02.22) column in the New York Times, progressive economist Paul Krugman attacked the insanity of letting the (Great) Sequester take place on March 1. He gives some background of how the insanity developed in the last few years.
• NYT: Krugman: The Austerity... (350) 0000-00-00 In his Monday 12.01.30 column in the New York Times, progressive economist Dr. Paul Krugman summarized his warnings of the past three years (paraphasing his POV): The relentless push by know-nothing leaders in the USA and EU for austerity and their deficit paranoia propaganda this is supposed to get us out of The Great Recession hasn't worked and will not work. More of it now threatens to make it The Great Depression 2.0, especially if the struggling EU nations collapse, bringing down the entire EU and then the US economy.
• NYT: Krugman: Raise That... (328) 0000-00-00 In his Monday February 18, 2013 (13.02.18) column in the New York Times, progressive economist Paul Krugman promoted the many reasons to raise the minimum wage in the USA from $7.25/hour to $9/hour. ...Arguably still not a living wage in many U.S. cities for 40 hours per week workers receiving $9/hour, $360/week before taxes. For those non-economists interested in the minutia of "economic theory about a minimum wage," Dr. Krugman presents an easy reading overview of it and the caveat: "we're still working on that. But the evidence from states shows no bad effects."
• NYT: Krugman: SOTU, Marco... (395) 0000-00-00 Following President Obama's State of the Union (SOTU) address to the nation on Tuesday February 12, 2013, progressive economist Paul Krugman chose to comment on the "GOP Zombies" as he sees them (i.e. the living dead GOP leaders with the same old dead-end ideas), their new young latino spokesperson who followed Obama on television and radio, Marco Rubio, and Rubio's remarks. Krugman also summarized for us the review "how we got in this economic mess."
• NYT: Krugman: The Social... (383) 0000-00-00 Economist Paul Krugman in his Friday 11.09.23 column reminds us about the Social Contract the USA has honored with it's citizens since the 1930s. He also summarizes how the radical right have systematically destroyed in the last 30 years. See also the "Winner-Take-All Politics" book citation on this site.
• Bernie Sanders: How Did Wall... (364) 0000-00-00 Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders gave this speech on the Senate Floor April 9, 2013 (13.04.09). If you like to hear someone sweep away all the b.s. and "tell it like it is" about our global Great Recession, listen.
• NYT: Krugman: Money and Morals (388) 0000-00-00 Progress economist Paul Krugman writes in his Friday 12.02.10 column in the New York Times that lack of money and job opportunities are the primary cause of alleged "social decay," not a decline in morals as the GOP radicals would have us all believe. Then he cites a few examples of moral improvements since the 1990s and the economic impoverishment of less educated white men since then making those legions of white men now about as unemployed and "without prospects" as have been so many blacks for decades!
• NYT: A Tax System Against... (517) 0000-00-00 Progressive economist Joseph Stiglitz declared in a Sunday New York Times op-ed article that the U.S. Tax system is now stacked against the 99%.
• MO: Elizabeth Warren Quote... (401) 0000-00-00 MoveOn.org has this in-your-face super-rich shaming quote from Elizabeth Warren, founder of the new (2011) "Consumer Rights Commission(?)" that is now located in Washington, D.C. in the Federal Reserve's office building.
• NYT: A Geographic Analogy... (561) 0000-00-00 The New York Times "Opinionator" section presented this almost poetic essay 12.02.14 about political borders, those that are official, those that are not, and their psychological affect on us. I (JGW) was struck by the parallel issue of Economic Borders and Safe Havens from Economic Tyrants, an issue never discussed by "the establishment." My (JGW's) question is: Are we the 99% going to need to identify such economic borders, alternatives, and "safe havens," if The Great Recession continues or gets worse? Will our Corporate Masters define those economic borders for us making them as difficult to cross as possible?
• NYT: Krugman: GOP's Phoney... (545) 0000-00-00 Economist Paul Krugman writes in the Friday 11.09.30 New York Times that the GOP and it's political allies continue to propagandize "phoney fear factors" about jobs and the economy. I ask: who does that benefit again?
• NYT: Greeks Turn to Barter... (467) 0000-00-00 The New York Times of 11.10.01 report that in Greece, a country about to go into economic default and possibly weaken or destroy the Euro Zone, the Greeks themselves are turning to Barter Networks to keep daily community life going on reasonably normally.
• NYT: Krugman: The (Global)... (330) 0000-00-00 Economist Paul Krugman is a "Keynsian" economist who has said multiple times: stimulate-the-economy -- like with a jobs program -- and we'll have a quick recovery. In his Friday April 19, 2013 (13.04.19) New York Times column points out that "math errors" by so-called economic experts have helped justify, falsely, the global obsession to use austerity measures to recover from The Great Recession (don't call it a depression). In short: The developed world's governments are imposing austerity measures year after year because those in charge want austerity measures, and for no other reason.
• NYMag: 28 yo Econ Grad... (296) 0000-00-00 On Thursday April 18, 2013 (13.04.18) New York Magazine published this story about a 28 years old economics graduate student "did the math." The math he did completely "put the lie to" and destroyed the rationale for the global austerity programs that all too many nations, the IMF, World Bank and the EU have imposed on the financially worst struggling developed nations since the Global Recession of 2008.
• PBS: Why Krugman et al Know... (440) 0000-00-00 Part of the Friday April 19, 2013 (13.04.19) PBS Newshour program was this segment about the National Debt by their economics and business analyst, Paul Solmon. He interviewed progressive economist Paul Krugman and a few others who debunk the alarming, contagious, but utterly wrong theories of Economists Reinhart and Rogoff. The latter two have frightened the leaders of most of the world's developed nations since the crisis of 2008 to believe that when a nation's debt exceeds 90% of the nation's Gross Domestic Product, the nation is financially doomed! It just ain't so. And so austerity measures imposed on a nation's people to help reduce national debt are simply unnecessary, masochistic, and are "digging the financial hole" of the country deeper.
• NYT: Krugman: The Dollar vs... (439) 0000-00-00 Economist Paul Krugman writes in his Monday 11.10.03 New York Times column that the US should "be stronger" with China and devalue the US dollar somewhat more if we are to solve the US unemployment problem in less than 4-5 years.
• NYT: Krugman: Pain (in the... (440) 0000-00-00 In his Monday 12.02.20 column in the New York Times, progressive economist Paul Krugman writes: "Last week the European Commission confirmed what everyone suspected: the economies it surveys are shrinking, not growing. It€™s not an official recession yet, but the only real question is how deep the downturn will be." The EU countries are the USA's #1 international market. As the EU goes, so shall the USA economy.
• NYT: Krugman: Romney's... (350) 0000-00-00 Progressive Economist Paul Krugman's Friday 12.02.23 column in the New York Times is particularly candid about GOP Presidential nominee candidate Mitt Romney's recently revealed certainty that Keynesian economics is the solution to the US and global economy. But Krugman also points out what the GOP and the US mass media have been afraid to admit for a very long time: the Republican base is too stupid and too fond of being incited to riot and revolt, to care whether their candidates tell them the truth or not!
• NYT: Krugman: What Ails... (438) 0000-00-00 Progressive Economist Paul Krugman wrote in his Monday 12.02.28 column, in effect, that while some mis-led masochistic struggling states suffer from austerity programs, the "welfare states" are thriving.

Economic Watch Dogs (weblinks)

• Paul Krugman, Economist,... (568) 0000-00-00 Economist Paul Krugman's Friday 7/15/10 column in the New York Times. Krugman notes that the GOP (Republicans) now feel so confidant that they will take back the U.S. House or Senate in November 2010, that they no longer hide or disguise their "zombie tax cut" policy and the non-logic of their Reagan-esk "voodoo economics", also called relentless mind-numbing and misleading propaganda ploys.
• Our Fiscal Future: a new... (960) 0000-00-00 Progressive economist Dr. R Kuttner and others have setup a new web site as of Nov. 2010 called "Our Fiscal Future". The site presents the progressive economics points of view "pro" and "con" about the left and right wing proposals for the US and the world economic recovery. The organization is a coalition of several progressive think tanks including the "Dean Most" foundation, "The Economic Policies Institute", and "The Century Foundation".
• NHFA: Questions Feard Most... (611) 0000-00-00 As of Fall 2010, the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) in Washington, D.C., has a list of the "questions most feared by predatory lenders". Predatory lenders were part of the cause of Great Housing Bubble that burst in 2007-2008. With major US too-big-to-fail banks gambling in the "derivatives" market with depositors' money that led to the Great Recession of 2008 -- don't call it a Depression.
• Shadow Government Statistics (562) 0000-00-00 Activist John Williams, founder and chief contributor to the Shadow Government Statistics (SRS) web site, re-crunches the numbers in the published federal government statistics. SGS discovers, among other things, that real inflation in the USA as of mid 2011 may be 10% or more per year rather than less than 4% per year. Even if it is 4% a year, in 18 years, everyone will be paying twice as much for every good and service they purchase. Will wages and salaries be twice as high then?
• Nader.org Ralph Nader's web... (629) 0000-00-00 This is the USA's foremost consumer protection advocate Ralph Nader's web site.
• The Future Fast Forward web... (1128) 0000-00-00 The FutureFastForward.com web site features progressive articles and essays.
• The GlobalIntegrity.org web... (551) 0000-00-00 Global Integrity recommends several international reforms to "income" and in-country "taxes paid" reporting which would weaken and perhaps disable illegal money laundering, black markets, and secret tax havens. Global Integrity analyzes reports of the International Monetary Fund (and World Bank?) to discover if and how banks, global corporations, and corrupt governments or agencies in governments in developing countries are creating shell companies, hiding bribe money and taxes paid to the government in off-shore tax havens, and otherwise engaging in money laundering for wealthy private special interests in their countries. These practices deny governments of developing countries, their usually impoverished constituent populations, and struggling small businesses the greater social and economic benefits of tax revenues paid properly at the standard tax rates and turned-around in-full to properly fund government humanitarian and in-country economic development projects.

Election Information (weblinks)

• 2011, 2012 California... (1749) 0000-00-00 Jennifer Woodward

  The California State web site listing election dates, deadlines to submit candidacy papers, primary elections, general elections. See also the California State Government</a> web site at http://www.ca.gov.

Election Reform (weblinks)

• OpaVote Online Elections web... (530) 0000-00-00 Online election voting could be used as a check-and-balance on official elections held for local, county, state and federal offices. I.e. voters vote twice, once officially at a polling place (or by absentee ballot), the second time using an OpaVote (or other) online voting system setup to duplicate all the choices in the official election! The official and unofficial online vote results should be very similar, if the official vote is un-biased and was not manipulated. Online election voting to check-and-balance (i.e. to confirm or repudiate) official referenda or proposition ballot vote results is possible as well.
• CSPAN: Changing the... (618) 0000-00-00 CSPAN.org first cable-cast this 3 person panel discussion held live at Baruch College in New York City on April 27 and again on May 4, 2012. Kathy Stewart, chair-person of the 10 years-old Independence Party of New York County, was the host-moderator. Speakers were Aspen Institute VP and former moderate House Representative Mickey Edwards, then from Oklahoma, and Jackie Salit, President of IndependentVoting.org (a network in 40 states). The sub-sub-title of the talk was "Independent Parties and Open Primaries." However, a great many of the progressive complaints about the U.S. Two Party System came up during the discussion and were well described. 1 hour, 23 minutes running time. No transcript.
• The IndependentVoting.org... (495) 0000-00-00 40% of the U.S. electorate are registered as Independent voters as of Spring 2012, says progressive IndependentVoting organization founder Jackie Salit. See also her talk on CSPAN with Mickie Edwards in late April, 2012

Election Rigging (weblinks)

• WP: How (17) States are... (574) 0000-00-00 In the Washington Post of 11.06.19, columnist E.J. Dione Jr. comments on the trend in at least 17 conservative U.S. states to pass laws limiting who can vote.

Energy Alternatives (weblinks)

• Is Big Business Co-Opting... (399) 0000-00-00 "Most new residential solar PV projects in California program are not owned by homeowners, Source: EIA" (See the graph of a possible corporate co-opting trend on the target web page.)

Feminism: US, EU and Other Countries (weblinks)

• DN: Selma James: Housework... (761) 0000-00-00 Elderly feminist Selma James appeared on Democracy Now Monday 12.04.16 in part to give an overview of her new book: "Sex, Race, and Class." Her 11 minute interview presents a compilation of essays including her own from 1952 through 2011. If you are still a sexist Marxist, don't watch this video stream. Ms. James claims to be the inventor of the term "Unwaged Labor." She also points out that 80% of the food available in Africa is grown by unwaged African women.
• Changing Male and Female... (663) 0000-00-00 Changing Male and Female Roles in Sweden in 2010 -- after 4 decades of diligent, benign, anti-sexism social engineering and consciousness raising.
• The Feminist.com web site (524) 0000-00-00 Feminist.com, a site existing since the early 2000s, has "all-things-feminist" and information about many of the older and new feminist thought and activism leaders.
• The Official Gloria Steinem... (744) 0000-00-00 The official web site for elder Feminist leader, author and 40+ years-long activist, Ms. Gloria Steinem.
• NYT: The Disposable Woman... (516) 0000-00-00 In the New York Times of 11.03.04, writer Anna Holmes, creator of the Jezebel feminist web site, exposes the chronic sexism and misogyny of the infamous womanizer white multi-millionaire actor, Charlie Sheen and his remorseless think and act-alike supporters. To this 70s feminist, it's good reading; it is consciousness raising for some minority of youngsters; but it is still pretty tame criticism. It's kind of a watered-down but right-on: "Ain't it awful; but nothing's going to change soon, so let's go back to what we were doing" opinion piece. Real feminists can do better.
• BBC: Mexico advises workers... (622) 0000-00-00 BBC News of 11.03.23 reported that a Mexican feminist organization is distributing a manual to Mexican government offices advising administrators and staff members on what is sexist language and why such language should not be used or tolerated.
• LQ: Sexual Harrassment in... (633) 0000-00-00 Journalist, editor, and writer Lewis Lapham's "The Lapham Quarterly" (online and in-print) lists this 1828 article about sexual harrassment as an online reprint.
• NYT: Elite Women Put New... (483) 0000-00-00 The New York Times of Thursday 12.06.22 presented a front page article proposing that "elite women" (successful women of a mature age) are putting a "new spin" on (new point of view of) and old (1970s feminism) debate: What is the healthy balance of work life and family life for women in the second decade of the 21st Century?
• NYT: The War Behind the US... (568) 0000-00-00 In the New York Times of 11.04.13, commentator Gail Collins exposes more of the motives of the radical right wingers who oppose abortion... and it turns out, contraception as well.
• NYT: Corsets, Cleavage,... (791) 0000-00-00 And let us not forget the return of push-up bras, ankle busting high heels, multiple plastic surgeries, and the increased use of lots of makeup and moisturizers. (Fashion bondage and self-abuse adopted by insecure women who want to be a better sexy object to sexist men.) The New York Times' columnist, Maureen Dowd, observed 11.05.14 that the Fall 2011 US television lineup includes some of the most retro sexist role models for women ever. Stridently sexist, perpetually horney adolescent males of all ages take heart... Sex education curriculum designers please start over.
• CR: Gloria Steinem for 30... (984) 0000-00-00 Gloria Steinem, 76 in 2011 and a co-founder of the 1970s feminist "Second Wave", appeared on the Charlie Rose public television show 11.08.12. She spoke very succinctly for 30 minutes about how far, and not very far, the "women's movement" has advanced in the last 30-40 years. Read her books to catch up on the "Second Wave" issues and most articulate spokes women (and a few men) of that time.
• MSNBC: Iowa Court OKs Firing... (675) 0000-00-00 The MSNBC article declares that Iowa Court ruling sets a dangerous precedent.
• NYT: Don't Get Too Close to... (655) 0000-00-00 If you don't think there has been a cultures war in the USA for at least the last 30 years, you watch too much TV and you believe the B.S. you watch. The New York Times of Sunday 12.01.01 reports that three new television shows for Spring 2012 will feature macho men in their man's world and one and only one woman. The woman will try to compete with all the men. Conclusion: Corporate sponsored TV will continue to teach younger women about feminism like George W. Bush taught the Afghani and Iraqi women.
• ZN: Interview with Boy... (637) 0000-00-00 ZeeNews.india.com (ZN), cited in a New York Times article of the same date, published this interview with the boy friend of the Delhi rape victim who died of her wounds 12 days later, "multiple organ failure" (her vagina, uterus, bladder, much of her intestines, and probably her kidneys were destroyed by the rapist insertion of an iron bar). Among other injuries not mentioned, he suffered paralysis of his hands and voice for two weeks. The interview was published January 5, 2013.
• NYT: Delhi Rape Victim's... (609) 0000-00-00 The New York Times of Saturday January 5, 2013 (13.01.05) featured this article summarizing some of the details of the attack on a 23 years old Delhi female medical student on December 16. She died of her extensive wounds -- as well as delayed treatment and possibly poor medical care -- 12 days later on December 28, 2012. The male friend and companion of the young woman provided, who was also badly beaten, provided this information. See also the link to the "ZeeNews" report on this site which provides much more of his first hand account of the horrific event and aftermath.
• BBC: Does Bollywood... (547) 0000-00-00 The answer is: YES. But this is still news and an awakening for most Indians. It is also a "damage control" series of interviews for the Bollywood film industry. On Wednesday January 23, 2013 (13.01.23) BBC News published this story from India and the 7 minute video stream report about the possibly growing feminist backlash to the sexism in Bollywood movies that is occurring after the gang rape and beating of "Demini" and her boyfriend December 19. She was a 23 years old Medical student who died of her severe internal injuries on December 28, 2012. The boy friend recovered and stood for interviews about what had happened to them on a hijacked mini-bus populated with phony passengers and the rapists. A famous Bollywood actress "speaks up" for women, but possibly more to promote changes and more integrity for the film industry. A Pakistani woman is somewhat more strident. She may be the token feminist setup to be so by the BBC interview producer. But she more clearly mentions in general the essential feminist issues. A male Bollywood actor cautions against creating "crazy censorship," but apologizes for the sexist movies saying only that "they need to be" reflections of real life in India. In my opinion (JGW's) the interview producer intended to have two pro-Bollywood actors (M&F) but also one more clear headed very much less apologetic or mis-directing Pakistani actress as "the panel," the latter actress there to subliminally "play" on and remind Indian viewers of the endemic seemingly endless rivalry and occasional "minor" (yet deadly) military clashes in Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
• BM: State of US Abortion... (489) 0000-00-00 The BillMoyers.com (BM) show of Friday January 25, 2013 (13.01.25) presented as it's second feature story two young feminist pro-choice pro-abortion women who talk about USA abortion rights today. They may be as bad or worse than they were in 1973 when Roe vs. Wade became the law of the land, or as bad as they were years before that landmark legislation. In my opinion (JGW's) it's very interesting to hear these two post Second Wave feminists talk about these issues.
• PBS: Makers: Women Who Make... (301) 0000-00-00 50-60 Years of the Second Wave of The Women's Movement, aka Feminism, are chronicled in this three hours long documentary. This is Part 1: The Awakening, about 56 minutes, beginning in the very prosperous 1950s, after WW-II ended in 1945, and touching part of the 1960s.
• PBS: Makers: Women Who Make... (307) 0000-00-00 50-60 Years of the Second Wave of The Women's Movement, aka Feminism, are chronicled in this three hours long documentary. This is Part 2: Changing The World, about 56 minutes, beginning in the very prosperous 1950s, after WW-II ended in 1945, and touching part of the 1960s.
• PBS: Makers: Women Who Make... (297) 0000-00-00 50-60 Years of the Second Wave of The Women's Movement, aka Feminism, are chronicled in this three hours long documentary. This is Part 3: Charting a New Course, about 56 minutes, beginning in the very prosperous 1950s, after WW-II ended in 1945, and touching part of the 1960s.
• The Makers.com web site (284) 0000-00-00 This is the web site of the producers of the 3 hours long Feb. 2013 documentary "Makers: The Women Who Make America" first broadcast on USA Public Broadcasting System on February 26, 2013 (13.02.26). The site has the complete documentary in three parts as well as excerpted interviews with many of the interviewees in the film and interviews with a number of other feminist women of the last 50-60 years.
• "Makers" information at... (319) 0000-00-00 This is the "Makers" sub-site on the PBS.org web site. "Makers" stands for the Makers.com web site and the Feb. 3013 documentary "Makers: Women Who Make America" which "Makers people" produced.
• The Third Wave Foundation... (323) 0000-00-00 The Third Wave Foundation, established in the 1990s, provides grants primarily for women feminist activists aged 15-30. "Third Wave has given close to $2 million to over 1,000 individuals through scholarships and over 100 young women and transgender youth-led organizations, often as the first national funder. In 2009 we awarded grants to 23 organizations, to equal over $500,000. "At our founding in the early 1990’s, less than six percent of all philanthropic dollars were directed to programs serving women and girls. Recognizing that even fewer dollars were making it to the innovative programs that are led by third wave feminists, Third Wave was created to address the need to have a fund for young feminist activists. Our founders believed, as we believe today, that financial support must be given to those young leaders, so that they can achieve their goals in creating change in their lives and the lives of others. By providing grants and other types of support, we make these visions a reality."
• Wiki: Third-wave feminism (676) 0000-00-00 This is the WikiPedia collaborative definition of "Third-wave feminism." The first part says: "Third-wave feminism is a term identified with several diverse strains of feminist activity and study, whose exact boundaries in the historiography of feminism are a subject of debate, but are often marked as beginning in the early 1990s and continuing to the present. The movement arose as a response to the perceived failures of and backlash against initiatives and movements created by Second-wave feminism during the 1960s to 1980s, and the realization that women are of "many colors, ethnicities, nationalities, religions and cultural backgrounds".[1] The third wave embraces diversity and change.[1] In this wave, as in previous ones, there is no all-encompassing single feminist idea."
• NYT: What Should Feminists... (330) 0000-00-00 On February 18, 2013, (13.02..18) the New York Times Opinion pages published this short cover story with links to six (6) short opinions the first five (5) each by one already published female feminist author, the sixth (6th) by two (2) already published feminist men. The issue coverage is somewhat superficial, but hits on key talking points squarely. And these opinion pages indirectly forewarn the general public of the soon-to-come renewal of the Violence Against Women Act at the end of February. I.e. the radical GOP members in the House would have to along with what the Senate passed at the time of these opinions to avoid further political embarrassment and a larger desertion of conservative women from their supporters and voting lists because of their collective poor showing at the polls in November 2012.
• S&E: Women in Danger (1980,... (527) 0000-00-00 In 1980 the Siskel and Ebert movie review show on US public television stations broadcast this 22 minutes long, very pro-feminist commentary by the two hosts. They made insightful observations about and showed clips from "new" (1980) movies about women in which the self-assertive, but alone and over-powered woman, is the victim of horrible violence. They claim these movies were a cynical profit-making reaction to the empowerment of women in the 1970s that "threatened" so many men. 2011 reviewers Christy Lemire and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of the updated S&E PBS show, "Ebert Presents At the Movies", add their contemporary observations for 8 minutes in the remainder of the 30 minute show.
• S&E: Changing Sex Roles... (526) 0000-00-00 In 1980 the Siskel and Ebert movie review show on US public television stations broadcast this 22 minutes long commentary about changing sex roles in the movies. 2011 reviewers Christy Lemire and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of the updated S&E PBS show, "Ebert Presents At the Movies", add their contemporary observations for 8 minutes in the remainder of the 30 minute show.
• SFGate: Parents Sick of... (640) 0000-00-00 The San Francisco Chronicle online, SFGate.com, presented this report by writer Margot Magowan. She is also the founder of The ReelGirl Blog, cited elsewhere on this web site. In this contributor's opinion promotion of sexist attitudes and behaviors is another insidious way to disempower and "control the masses" as well as to divide and conquer them (us).
• The ReelGirl Blog (616) 0000-00-00 This is feminist writer Margot Magowan's blog site.

Food Pollutions and Addictions (weblinks)

• NYT: The Extraordinay... (398) 0000-00-00 The New York Times magazine section of Wednesday, February 20, 2013 (13.02.20) presented this long article about how giant processed food industries create addictions to their junk food.

Fund Raising Issues & Ideas (weblinks)

Fund Raising Rule Changes (weblinks)

• NYT: Lines Blur Between... (673) 0000-00-00 The Sunday New York Times of 11.08.28 presents an anecdote about a recent appearance by former MA Governor Romney. After Romney left the meeting, never asking for donations or contributions, the Romney for President PAC changed the meeting into a fund raising event.

GP News in the USA and Canada (weblinks)

• GP: A Green New Deal (590) 0000-00-00 One day after President Obama's "Jobs" speech to a joint session of Congress, the Green Party USA web site proposed a "Green New Deal" as the better way to stimulate the economy and create more jobs.
• BBC: Obama to Cut US Deficit... (476) 0000-00-00 The BBC News service said it plainly on Monday 11.09.19, but the New York Times headline buried the "new taxes" lead.

GP News Outside the USA and Canada (weblinks)

• DS: German GP May Win 2... (646) 0000-00-00 The German paper, Der Spiegel online, of 10.10.21 reports that the German Green Party is very likely to win two (2) German state premierships in 2011 elections.
• AlterInfoNet (french) (720) 0000-00-00 For a progressive view of French and EU politics, read this site -- if you can. It's in French. But here you have a their site "wrapped" in a way that it can be translated. Perhaps they will add a web page translation feature to their site soon.
• FR24: Merkel's conservatives... (992) 0000-00-00 In a Berlin regional election on Sunday 11.09.18, German PM Merkel's popularity continued to drop. The article author believes she will lose standing in the Euro Zone vote at the end of September, 2011. If her decline persists, Germans may see a "more left of center" new PM if not also a reversal in Germany's economic austerity policies (jgw: my speculation). Interestingly in this Berlin regional vote, the Pirate Party in Germany won an amazing 9% of the votes with a platform including the demand to revise German copyright laws.
• FR24: Candidates debate... (1087) 0000-00-00 France24 news service reported that in a presidential Socialists candidates debate on Thursday, September 15, 2011, the economy was the main topic. The left-wing candidates announced that if elected they would raise taxes on the rich in France. They also pledged to hold firm to international commitments to France's deficit.
• FR24: French Left (incl.... (673) 0000-00-00 In the French election on Sunday 11.09.25 the French left, including the Greens and the Socialist, won sufficient seats to dominate the French Senate. That is reported to be a new big problem for conservative French President Sarkozy.

GP Web Sites Around the World (weblinks)

• The GP UK web site (1) 2019-06-13 Jennifer Woodward

  The Green Party of the United Kingdom web site.

  Site visitors with a user account on this CAGI web site and with more knowledge of the GP UK web site and GP UK organization please add more information "to" this web link, perhaps as comments. Later, if useful, add more information as an update to the web link 'remarks' / 'explanation' text. Or add 1+ article(s) about this site and the organization and it's work in the UK.

• Green Federations around the... (454) 0000-00-00 Green Federations, also called the Global Greens, exist around the world. This GlobalGreens.org web site lists most of them.
• The Global Greens Charter (625) 0000-00-00 The Global Greens Charter is web-published on the GlobalGreens.org web site.
• The Green Party of British... (399) 0000-00-00
• Green Party of Canada (404) 0000-00-00
• The Green Party of Quebec... (469) 0000-00-00 The Green Party of Quebec prefers to be called Le Parti Vert de Quebec. This link goes to the English version of their English+French web site.
• The Green Party of Alberta,... (617) 0000-00-00
• The Green Party of... (482) 0000-00-00
• The Green Party of Nova Scotia (418) 0000-00-00
• The Yukon Greens, Canada (562) 0000-00-00
• Wikipedia: The Green Party... (483) 0000-00-00

GP Web Sites in California (weblinks)

• The CAGreens.org LIVE Web... (606) 0000-00-00 The California Green Party LIVE web site with the most up-to-date web pages, announcements, facts, figures, bylaws, platform info, working groups info, ...
• The SF Greens LIVE web site (774) 0000-00-00 The SF Green Party web site.

GP Web Sites in the USA (weblinks)

GPCA Information (weblinks)

• GPCA SGA Voting System (2) 2019-06-13 Jennifer Woodward

  The "GPCA SGA Voting System" is a PERL-based ranked choice voiting (RCV) system used by the GPCA since 2012(?)  SGA stands for "Standing General Assembly."  The SGA Voting System currently allows delegates who participated in the bi-annual state-wide General Assembly face-to-face meetings to vote on "many things" online between the bi-annual meetings. 

  Theoretically, and not yet realized in the current SGA Voting System, members of all the committees and working groups in the GPCA could vote online using RCV on propositions and bylaws and other "things" of interest. Indeed a much expanded (a.k.a. scaled-up) Voting System could allow all members of the GPCA activists working in the GPCA committees and working groups as well as non-active members do vote online.

  This writer's (JGW's) first choice is to have referenda votes on the 'passed' or 'failed' items of the SGA Voting System. The purpose of such membership votes would be to confirm or refute the degree of real consensus on those items by the GPCA membership-at-large, en-toto.  If "the membership" agreed, their representatives at GA meetings and who vote in the SGA Voting System are "good" representatives.  If "the membership" does not agree, their representative are "not so good" and may need to be replaced.

• The GPCA MediaWiki Site (6) 2019-06-12 Jennifer Woodward

History of California's Major Elections (weblinks)

• NYT 6/9/10 Analysis of Prop... (714) 0000-00-00 California's Proposition 14 passed in the June 08, 2010, state-wide primary elections. With similar propositions already law in some other states, or undergoing legal challenges, could this be another blow to multi-party elections in California and the USA? Will in future California elections only candidates from the Democrat and Republican parties, or even two candidates from just ONE of those parties be allowed to run for an office? Read this NYT analysis made on 6/10/10.
• California Proposition 187... (912) 0000-00-00 Republican Governor Pete Wilson, arguably one of the fathers of the war on public education and entitlements in California, won his 2nd term in 1994 based on the popularity of tricky Proposition 187, the "Save Our State" proposition putting the "government boot" on illegal immigrants and immigration. Read a lot about the proposition (and a little about the word playing and 'reframing' tricks) on this WikiPedia page.
• California Propositions:... (796) 0000-00-00 A list of California Propositions on the ballots from 2000 through 2009.
• California Proposition 8... (559) 0000-00-00 Proposition 8, the so-called (misleading, ultra-conservative, and tricky) "Defense of Marriage Act" and indirect amendment to the state constitution, passed in Nov. 2008. While grass-roots votes in the largest cities were against Prop 8, it passed state-wide after huge sums were spent on pro-Prop-8, anti-gay marriage advertising by anti-gay Mormons, other anti-gay religious groups, and LGBT-haters in general. At this writing the Federal 9th District Court in San Francisco is scheduled to rule sometime in July 2010 on a law suit to declare Prop. 8 unconstitutional. Read something about it all here.
• CNN: US Election Results:... (552) 0000-00-00 CNN's 2006 US States' Ballot Measures Election Results online, of which California's are listed. In short Cal Prop 85: (Requiring) Parental Notification (of parents by a pregnant teen). NO (by 54%) Cal Prop 87: Funds for Alternative Energy. NO (by 55%)
• California Primary Results,... (517) 0000-00-00 Official California 2010 June Primary Election Results.

History of Protest Movements (weblinks)

• TWN: The Third World... (714) 0000-00-00 The Third World Newsreel web site, www.twn.org, has audio and video archives of protest movement activities and organizer-speaker speeches from all over the world; both amateur and professional news recordings. Clips include many from the 1960s and 1970s civil rights movement, feminist movement, anti-war movement, and anti-establishment anti government oppression anti-government-secrecy marches in the USA. Arguably this was the last time the now elderly progressives still among us somewhat effectively confronted the oppressive, economic and politically enslaving "establishment" and the super-rich. Yet today those same issues oppress U.S. Society at large, "the 99%," threatening the health, well-being and prosperity of the youngest adults and remaining working adults for the rest of their lives! That more vicious backlash from the super-rich right economic en-slavers in turn challenges the Occupy Movement participants, mostly youth as of 4/2012, and other progressive protesters to both engage in actions that repair the damage done in the last 30-40 years and to create more lasting constructive progressive social and political change yet again, 50 years after the elders' previous "few significant successes"!
• DN: 1960s SDS co-founder Tom... (639) 0000-00-00 Veteran activist, former California State Senator, Tom Hayden appeared on Democracy Now 12.04.13 to compare and contrast 1960s-70s protests with the current Occupy Movement.

History of USA Major Elections (weblinks)

How and When to be a Whistle Blower (weblinks)

• DN: NSA's Largest Data... (641) 0000-00-00 March 21, 2012; Democracy Now. jgw 12.03.27
• DN: Part 1: NSA... (641) 0000-00-00 March 21, 2012; Democracy Now. jgw 12.03.27
• DN: Part 2: NSA... (590) 0000-00-00 March 26, 2012; Democracy Now. jgw 12.03.27
• CorpWatch.org (505) 0000-00-00 CorpWatch.org is a site which aspires to "hold corporations (more) accountable". Get some ideas about what kinds of "whistles" can be "blown", how and when to "blow them" -- with minimal pain and suffering for yourself and your family -- from their web site and post those ideas and techniques here.
• WhistleBlower.org (487) 0000-00-00 WhistleBlower.org is a site which aspires to "hold government and the military (more) accountable". Get some ideas about what kinds of "whistles" can be "blown", how and when to "blow them" -- with minimal pain and suffering for yourself and your family -- from their web site and post those ideas and techniques here.
• The GPCA "Beta"... (598) 0000-00-00 The GPCA's "still under construction" Whistle Blowers Shopping List (WBSL) "beta test" web site. WBSL is intended to be a portal site to "better" and to "best" progressive ways, means, and support systems and people that help would-be blowers of "a whistle" on their employers, commanding officers, and other authority figures who may be abusing their power and authority without any accountability.
• National Whistleblower Center (466) 0000-00-00

How to Have Sustained Non-Violent Protests (weblinks)

• NYT: Gene Sharp - "Author"... (490) 0000-00-00 The New York Times of 11.02.17, reported that the books of 83 y.o. Boston author, Gene Sharp, were "seeded" in Egypt several years before the 18 day revolution of 2011 and lists several of them. Mr. Sharp has written about non-violent protests and revolutions for many years. His ideas may have led to the downfall of the 30 years-long dictatorial regime of President Mubarak and his cronies, many hope, on February 11, 2011. The ouster of Egypt's and Tunisia's tyrants has led to similar protests in other nearby Arab countries.

Issues and Ideas (weblinks)

• Sean Michael Dodd's Blog (533) 0000-00-00
• FairVote: Fixing Democracy -... (360) 0000-00-00 This Info Graphic from FairVote.org presents practical steps for progressives to promote that could fix our broken Congress and national government. co GPCA member, Mike Feinstein.
• DN: The Left's 2012 Dilemma... (536) 0000-00-00 Democracy Now of Tuesday 12.05.08 featured a 38 minute interview between host Amy Goodman and former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. He pushed tentatively I, jgw, think for the need to mobilize and rally around President Obama so that he gets a second term in office. Goodman pointed out and Reich admitted the many big mistakes Obama has made, mistakes to some degree begun in the Clinton administration. The sub-text of the interview seemed to me to be: let's review the effects of the Great Right Wing Conspiracy of the last 30-35 years that have forced the Democrats more and more to the right.
• NYT: US Worker-Owners Unite (608) 0000-00-00 This op-ed from the New York Times of Thursday 11.12.15 claims there are 11,000 employee-owned businesses in the USA employing about 13 million people, roughly 1/5th of US workers. Coincidentally about 13 million people happen to be the known unemployed as well. These worker-owned businesses in turn serve about 130 million Americans, who apparently are also investors/share-holders/members, just under 50% of the population. Author, Gar Alperovitz, further describes the US worker-owner trend.
• Slate: Greenwald: Three... (575) 0000-00-00 Glenn Greenwald writes in Slate.com 11.12.16 that Obama's signing of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2011 in effect creates a more sure and certain police state in the USA, if there hasn't been one for some time already.
• AN: Nader on the 2012... (586) 0000-00-00 AlterNet.org published these remarks of Ralph Nader, twice a Green Party candidate for President, who summarized his views of the Dem-GOP election and Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein's potential to win "something good" in that November 2012.
• TO: 14 Propaganda Techniques... (572) 0000-00-00 As of 11.07.02 TruthOut.org (TO) has a description of 14 techniques FOX "News" uses to promote right wing propaganda.
• BM&C: Bernie Sanders: The... (543) 0000-00-00 The Democrat Convention ended Thursday just one day earlier with a chummy charming but lack-luster 40 minute speech to a national television audience and the DNC delegates from President Obama. Total cost: many millions of dollars. However, Friday night 12.09.07 independent progressive Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont got 29 minutes on national public television with progressive elder journalist Bill Moyers; total cost: possibly several thousand dollars, the usual cost to set up and broadcast an interview show. If you thought some of the Democratic National Convention speakers were a breath of fresh cleaner air compared to those over-eager, too widely smiling speakers of distortions and lies endlessly repeated at the Republican National Convention a week earlier, check out Senator Sander's 29 minutes. In his simple, intelligent, down-to-earth, straight talking way Sanders told Moyers just how bad politics, economics and the state of the country are, what we the people can do about it, and did all that without any of the hype or feel-good fluffy heroic political crusader fantasy talk.
• BM&C: Jill Stein and Cheri... (582) 0000-00-00 Following progressive Senator Bernie Sanders conversation with journalist Bill Moyer's on Moyer's Friday night 12.09.07 show on Public Television, came Green Party Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates Jill Stein and Cheri Honkola. In this observer's (JGW's) somewhat biased opinion, their 24 minute talk with Moyers presented a clear vision and many simple practical solutions to our on-going political, social and economic crisis all based on the hard facts and straight-forward solutions progressives could make if Green Party candidates win local, state, and national offices in the November 6, 2012, General Election. Like Senator Sanders, their "pitchs" were simple, intelligent, down-to-earth, straight talk; 95% substance, 5% across the kitchen table down-home style... if also presented with a poised urgency motivated by their status as the "seldom seen, seldom heard" 3rd party candidates for the highest office in the land.
• CSpan: Thomas Friedman:... (715) 0000-00-00 At the US National Governor's Association Annual Meeting in Utah, July 16-17, 2010, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman gave the closing keynote speech. The author of the problematic misleading futurist book "The World is Flat" spoke for one hour and 42 minutes. To this reviewer his remarks were the same ol' same ol' 7th grade level Friedman cheer leading for the New World Order status quo including downsized, outsourced business as usual now and for evermore. BUT HE COVERS ALL THE ISSUES, IF IN A VERY RIGHT-WING, NEO-LIBERAL BIASED WAY. In this reviewer's opinion, Friedman is the voice of "the enemies" of grass-roots democracy and progressive change who are saying "if you think you can change the new plutocratic world order, you are wrong and you will wither and die if you try to fight the system. Surrender to it, conform to it, and take your place compliantly among the billions of economically enslaved workers making more and earning less with the help of computers. On this inevitable ride into the future, led by global corporations more powerful than any government, there will be ample Internet-television entertainment.
• KQED-FM: The Politics of Me (549) 0000-00-00 On the "California Report" of 11.07.22, real estate broker, Paul Staley, presented his perspective about what the far right and the progressives have in common. The 2 minute monologue (and transcript) is well written, presents tasty morsels of food for thought, each of which deserve elaboration by those who do such thinking. "Persuading" an intractable unreasonable "enemy" (the fearful supporters of the radical right wing of the GOP) requires understanding their language, fears, and motivations.
• DN: Noam Chomsky: Who Owns... (467) 0000-00-00 Democracy Now of Friday October 26, 2012, featured 10 minutes of a speech by foremost progressive intellectual MIT Professor Noam Chomsky.
• THartmann: Spending vs.... (398) 0000-00-00 Progressive Thom Hartmann presented an exceptional editorial in his Internet radio and TV stream of Wednesday 12.11.14. This links goes to the video stream on his ThomHartmann.com web site. I (jgw) happened to catch most of his editorial while channel surfing Thursday 12.11.15 changing between EATV stations on SF's Comcast analog stations. Link TV is one such station. It turns out the Russia Today cable TV program ended their news program of 6:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday with Thom's editorial. Russia Today video streams are available at rt.com. In short: Thom "nailed" (was spot on about) the core economic issues before us, the American people and our public institutions. He was spot on about how the radical right has been "re-framing" these issues, systematically eliminating any mention of the phrases "private family investment," "public (government) investment." For the radical right EVERYTHING the government does is called spending. And that's simply maliciously wrong as well as grossly misleading.
• Grist: Markets and Climate... (894) 0000-00-00 The Grist.com web site published 11.12.20 this article by David Roberts. In the article he explores the degrees of self-defeating destructive insanity of the capitalists who embrace the cognitive dissonance that their activities impose on themselves, their customers, and anyone who believes that what they do "for society" is useful and good in the short and long run.
• NYTed: Keeping US College... (540) 0000-00-00 The New York Times editorial page of 11.12.27 featured this editorial about the likely latest way the GOP will reduce the number of intelligent voters in November 2012 -- college students.
• NYT: Obama's odd war doctrine (630) 0000-00-00 Establishment liberals and conservatives, perhaps opportunistically (i.e. to bolster their own biased points of view) disagree about why Obama goes to war. This New York Times opinion article of 11.08.26 clearly and succinctly shows the variety of those establishment opinions. Personally, I (jgw) think Obama has resurrected the 1960s liberal demand that the USA should be the world's police force. But he is getting other historically allied nations to come forward to share the responsibility. That may be a good thing for all the allies and better for the US in a corporate bad-actors-induced world recession. Otherwise the US and EU go back to the isolationism and protectionism of the late 1800s and early 1900s up through WW-II.
• NYT: The Internet is Not... (527) 0000-00-00 This op-ed article appeared in the Wednesday 12.01.04 New York Times.
• NYT: What the Left Does Not... (571) 0000-00-00 The Sunday New York Times magazine of 11.09.04 presented this essay by Johnathan Chait, senior editor of the New Republic magazine. The essay is in effect an apology and explanation for Obama's approach to "real world politics" and economics which the author says Obama has needed to try to master and control, once he assumed office as President, arguably not very effectively.
• NYT: Is Social Security a... (580) 0000-00-00 The New York Times of 11.09.09 offered this debate in short essays provided by two (2) writers and three (3) professors about Gov. Rick Perry's remark of 11.09.07. Perry presented this radical misleading view during the eight (8) GOP candidates' television debate of 09.07. During the debate he claimed that "Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme."
• UCTV: An Afternoon With Bill... (507) 0000-00-00 Bill Moyer's gave a speech at the University of California Santa Barbara in the Winter of 2011, January 23. UTCT.tv broadcast that speech on cable tv and as a video stream first in March 2011 and again in September 2011. 58 minutes.
• NYT: Krugman: Free to Die (622) 0000-00-00 Krugman commented in the Friday New York Times of 11.09.16 in effect that the Social Darwinism preached and sought by the radical right-wing free-marketeering libertarians controlling the GOP is now the law of the land. But no true majority of us ever voted for that in the last 31 years since Ronald Reagan!
• NYT: Krugman: In Support of... (569) 0000-00-00 Progressive economist Paul Krugman supported the "Occupy Wall Street" people and their budding protest movement in his Friday 11.10.07 New York Times column "Confronting the (Real) Malfactors." In other words in the 3 years to-date rarely are the real economic and political evil-doers in the USA and EU pointed out or confronted.

Issues and Ideas Web Sites (weblinks)

• The Wakeup-World.com web... (625) 0000-00-00
• The Rethinking Marxism web... (561) 0000-00-00
• The Grist.com web site (545) 0000-00-00
• The Green Papers web site (810) 0000-00-00 Examples: The Green New Deal - (meaningful) jobs for everyone. (FB 11.09.05)
• The Howie Hawkins web site (529) 0000-00-00 This is the web site of Howie Hawkins. He has been a progressive activist for decades and a "thought leader" for the Green Party for some time as well. He compiled and edited the "dirty politics inside the GP" book "Independent Politics: The Green Party Strategy Debate," 2006. It is a compilation of letters and articles of Greens of widely varying points of view before and after they came together at the 2004 GP convention where the "rules" were subverted letting some fall back on "same ol' same ol' dirty tricks" back room political scheming just so their minority faction could win the nomination. Opportunistic Faux Greens green-washing themselves and the Green Party. In short: Howie is a keen social-political observer and writer about us.

Issues, Ideas & Arguments (weblinks)

Known GP Sites Outside the USA (weblinks)

• Wiki: Alliance 90/The Greens... (2008) 0000-00-00 WikiPedia.org describes the Alliance 90/The Greens party in Germany which is part of the Bundestag (German parliament).
• DE: Alliance 90/The Greens:... (638) 0000-00-00 The Green Party (der Gruene) in the German Parliament.

Known GP Web Sites Across the USA (weblinks)

• Green Party USA Web Site:... (829) 0000-00-00 USA National Candidates for Office, and their web-sites, that are listed on the Green Party USA Web Site.
• The Green Party USA Web Site (493) 0000-00-00 The Web Site for the Green Party of the United States of America. GO GREEN !!!

Known GPCA County, City Web Sites (weblinks)

Learning Drupal (Better) (weblinks)

• BADCamp 2012: Sessions... (3776) 0000-00-00 This is the sortable, filterable session schedule for the 4 days long 2012 Bay Area Drupal Camp, a.k.a. BADCamp, held on the University of California Berkeley campus Nov. 1-4. Drupal 7 and alpha version 8 due to be released in late 2013 were discussed and explained by expert site owners, stakeholders, end-users and developers. The schedule is important to Drupal IT people who want to explore what subjects they want to study in more depth about the existing CAGreens.org Drupal 7 web site and to prepare for the technical changes that will appear in the upcoming Drupal 8 major release due Fall 2013.
• DrupalCon Munich 2012:... (8204) 0000-00-00 Spring 2012 DrupalCon (conference and seminars about Drupal) were held in Munich, Germany. This is a sortable, filterable schedule of those meetings and discussions.
• DrupalCon Denver 2012:... (3077) 0000-00-00 This is the "sessions" page of the Spring 2012 DrupalCon meeting in Denver, Colorado, March 19-23; five days at the Colorado Convention Center. Speakers and participants talked a lot about using the Drupal 7 content management system (CMS). The last days, the sessions were usually 45-50 minutes, like single meeting classes. The first days, the sessions might run 1/2 to all day. Some if not all speakers' slides and a few ad-hoc audio recordings of their presentations were web-published on the conference web site after the conference.
• BADCamp 2011: Sessions... (1154) 0000-00-00 This is the session schedule for the 4 days long 2011 Bay Area Drupal Camp, a.k.a. BADCamp, held on the University of California Berkeley campus October xx-xx. Drupal 6 and 7 were discussed and explained by expert users and developers. The schedule is important to Drupal IT people who want to explore what subjects they want to study in more depth about the existing CAGreens.org Drupal 7 web site and what technical changes will appear in the upcoming Drupal 8 major release due Fall 2013.
• DrupalCamp Montreal, Fall... (595) 0000-00-00 The sessions and video recordings of many of them are online at the DrupalCamp Montreal official web site.

Legal Improvements, Repeals and Repairs (weblinks)

• You Have Choices Besides Dem... (520) 0000-00-00 Expand your imagination of who is worth voting for! Get out of the rut of believing you can only make a difference by voting for the "lesser of two evil" candidates and their policies offered by the monopoly super-rich-controlled Democrat and Republican parties. Find and support the "party" and "candidate" of your dreams in this list of US Political Parties maintained by Wikipedia and vote for those you really like and for policies you really want! Yes Real Democracy is this ugly and complicated, and compromises will and must be made between coalitions of like-minded "third" parties as more people flock to them. But this is so much better than the alternative... which is surrendering to the enslaving impoverishing lesser evils offered us by the super-minority super-rich dictatorship (Plutocracy) we've got now.
• SFGate: New California Laws... (498) 0000-00-00 In mid 2012, third term progressive governor Jerry Brown Jr. signed these progressive bills into law. They became part of the law of California on January 1, 2013. Some of these new laws have been enacted in a very few other US states in 2012.

Legal Tricks and Traps (weblinks)

• NYT: For Consumers, an 'Open... (336) 0000-00-00 In the New York Times of Saturday May 25, 2013 (13.05.25) writer Natasha Singer offered the observation that the "Open Data" Society in which corporations collect all sorts of persona shopping and movement data on consumers, sell and share it with each other, does not make that information available to the consumers who in effect should own it. However as of May 2013 there is no state or federal law stating that corporations which collect this information must make it available to the consumers who generate it. The implication is that limiting consumer access to all the information they generate, if not also to the analyses the corporations make from it, somehow enfeebles and disempowers the consumers. In fact, I (JGW) believe this deliberate withholding of information tends to pacify consumers, makes them (us) less thoughtful (out of site, out of mind), and promotes more thoughtless impulse buying. Therefore compelling advertising about products and services is more likely to promote more impulse buying. In this way we, a less thoughtful or observant yet increasing majority of society at large, are more inclined en-mass to be "better consumers" from the point of view of profit-hungry retailers and service providers.
• Wiki: Monopoly Rent-Seeking (342) 0000-00-00 Prompted by Progressive economist Paul Krugman's Friday June 21, 2013, column in the New York Times, this is the wikipedia definition of "monopoly rent-seeking." Krugman claims this is a large part of what the US financial sector has been doing since the 2008 global financial crises they caused to increase personal and corporate profits at the great expense of the rest of the US economy and the 98% of the people.
• NYT: Krugman: Profits... (339) 0000-00-00 In his Friday June 21, 2013 (13.06.21) column in the New York Times, progressive economist Paul Krugman describes how the US financial sector has been using "monopoly rent" (or rent seeking) to continue to "game the system" and increase personal and corporate profits for themselves at the expense of the rest of the US economy and the well-being of 98% of the US people.
• NYT: Supreme Court Guts the... (416) 0000-00-00 The New York Times of Tuesday June 25, 2013 (13.06.25), in my opinion Black Tuesday politically, announced that section 4 of the US Voter Rights Act of 1965 is now UNCONSTITUTIONAL! This frees conservative state with existing anti-voter laws, i.e. with punitive voter ID laws, to immediately enact and enforce those laws. Those states contemplating enacting repressive voter ID laws now face no obstacles from the US Supreme Court. The US Congress could pass 1+ explicit anti-voter-id laws. But that is highly unlikely by 2014 or by 2016 or for many more years to come!
• NPR: Voting Rights Ruling to... (419) 0000-00-00 This is a transcript of National Public Radios news report of Tuesday afternoon June 25, 2013 (13.06.25) presenting an analysis of the legal and social implications of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling of this Tuesday morning in effect gutting the Voter Rights Act of 1965, and empowering states and counties with or planning to pass repressive Voter ID and other voting restricting laws to resume those practices unimpeded.
• NYT: Krugman: Lobbyists...... (459) 0000-00-00 Progressive economist Paul Krugman "went political" in his Monday 12.03.26 column in the New York Times. He attributes the killing of black youth Trayvon Martin a week ago apparently by a self-appointed over-weight white vigilante, the "stand your ground" right-to-kill laws in Florida and 25 other states to the nefarious subversive legal activities of ALEC, the American Legal Exchange Council. ALEC is funded by the Koch brothers, Exxon Mobile and other super-rich far-right conservatives.
• NYT: Interactive Map of... (586) 0000-00-00 This is the link to the New York Times map, published later Tuesday June 25, 2013 (113.0625). The map shows which US states and counties, as of June 25, will be affected by the Supreme Court's ruling this day to all but destroy the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965. These US states and a few counties in some mid-west and western states, SO FAR, will be able to pass repressive Voter ID laws and other restrictions on voting. Those formerly illegal restrictions on voting now can only be challenged legally after damage to voting or to voters has been done and proved in state or local courts! This map also shows states and counties with "low turnout now" which the rules in the now unconstitutional VRA section 4 would have required the U.S. Justice Dept. to investigate from 1965 until today June 25, 2013, and if violations of the VRA were deemed the cause, allow "Justice" to force that state or county to correct the problem immediately.
• Nation: Ari Berman: What the... (571) 0000-00-00 Nation columnist Ari Berman wrote this article the same day, Tuesday June 25,2013 (13.06.25) after the Supreme Court announced their decision at 10 a.m. to in effect "gut" the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the law of the land and a major impetus for desegration in the US southern states until this Tuesday. Affirmative action laws were another 1960s law that pushed southern states to reform.
• NYT: Workers Now Paid by... (318) 0000-00-00 The New York Times reported Sunday June 30, 2013 (13.06.30) that "workers paid by pre-paid credit card" (not by check) "get (a service) fee deducted" and that fee is large! Clearly if an employer's pay-card given to an employee has a fee, an auto-deposited pay check might have a service fee attached as well. If anyone is old enough to remember the "Sixteen Tons" song sung by the late Tennessee Ernie Ford, remember that it's hook line was "I owe my soul to the company store."
• DN: The Backlash to ALEC (496) 0000-00-00 Democracy Now reported Wednesday 12.04.18 how protesters have managed to cause the exodus of major corporate supporters of ALEC and caused ALEC to drop their multi-state push for Voter ID (prove you can vote) and Stand Your Ground (kill at will) legislation. 35 minutes video stream and transcript.
• NYT: ALEC Is A Stealth... (458) 0000-00-00 Reporter Mark McIntire wrote in the Saturday New York Time of 12.04.21 that the conservative non-profit organization ALEC (the American Legislative Executive Council) is in effect a stealth (secret, clandestine and subversive) lobbyist for free marketeer big businesses.
• WP: WalMart Aided Lobbying... (445) 0000-00-00 The Washington Post reported Wednesday 12.04.25 that WalMart took part in the lobbying campaign to amend a long-standing U.S. anti-bribery law.
• NYT: ABA Rates Women Judges... (506) 0000-00-00 This wasn't one of the "legal tricks and traps" I was thinking about when I created this web link category in 2010. The New York Times of Tuesday 11.11.22 reported that the American Bar Association (ABA) secretly has rated Obama's judicial nominees as "not qualified." Most of the 14 "not qualified" nominees are "women or a member of a minority group." The ABA "passed" the other 171 nominees which the White House has presented to them to date. Not having all 185 nominees passed further delays into Obama's fourth year his ability to fill open Federal Judgeship positions, further weakening his effectiveness as President.
• The DebatingTaboos.org web... (607) 0000-00-00
• DN: FCC Mandates Pol Ad... (455) 0000-00-00 Democracy Now of Thursday 12.05.03 broadcast this story from ProPublica.com. The FCC passed new regulations mandating that radio, television, cable and Internet news providers must web-publish the donors, funders of political ads which appear on their news channels. The only problem will be: THE DONOR-FUNDER LISTS WILL NOT BE SEARCHABLE, i.e. neither Google or Bing or other search engines will be able to find, index, and provide these lists if and when a web user searches for them! You have to know what you want and where the information is located on the Internet before you get it, read it, and cite it in your own news. This also means a researcher cannot perform an Internet search for all political ads funded by, say, the Koch brothers.
• CMD: ALEC's 2014 Attacks on... (449) 0000-00-00 The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) site, prwatch.org, revealed April 23, 2014, 14.04.23, that they obtained a spreadsheet from the American Legal Exchange Council (ALEC), one of the network of legally subversive organizations funded and controlled by the Oil Baron Koch Brothers. This was a "project tracking spreadsheet" listing all the legal attacks ALEC has had in-action nationwide in 2014 which, if passed into law, would further destroy the environment. So this leaked spreadsheet begs the question: where are the spread-sheets from ALEC for the previous 30-35 years of their attacks on liberal legislation and democracy nation-wide? And how about leaking similar spreadsheets from the several dozen other organizations in the formerly secret "Koch Political Influence Network?"
• NYT: Redistricting Alarms... (632) 0000-00-00 The Saturday New York Times, 11.12.03, reported that many City mayors are complaining that (I assume) GOP controlled redistricting is dis-empowering them and their citizens by forcing new small segments of a city to "work with" distant rural regions, not with adjacent segments of the city or the city at-large.
• BA: Calif. Law Banning 3rd... (419) 0000-00-00 Ballot-Action.org reported 12.05.22 that the California State Supreme Court ruled 5/22 that the California law banning 3rd parties having candidate-lines on ballots, such as in the June 5, 2012, Primary and the Nov. 6, 2012 General Election, is UNCONSTITUTIONAL!
• SFGate: 9th Circuit: Prisons... (682) 0000-00-00 Liberals who believe that prisons are for rehabilitation and the forced opportunity to seek penitence within, get over it. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday 11.12.05 that "prisons are for "retribution, deterrence and incapacitation." SFGate 11.12.06
• CBC: US-CA Border to Track... (597) 0000-00-00 The CBC reported 11.12.06 that there is a new agreement between the US and Canada regarding people who exit each country to enter the other. It is already the case with entry into either country, that the entering US or CA citizen show a passport and give reasons for their visit. Now detailed "exit information" will be gathered at the border as well. This entry and exit information will be shared with the neighboring country. So picture this: In the USA AT&T and other wired and wireless phone conversation and data carriers track everything that travels over their fiber optic lines giving a copy to the US National Security Agency (NSA). Your mobile phone likely contains a Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) locator chip "for your convenience" and to assist "give me directions" map display software on the phone. Unknown, undocumented software in your phone could be turning on that "locator" signal and broadcasting your phone's location when you do not know or want it to be on. Already secret software is broadcasting to a tracking station what you "text" (IM) to another phone, which phone(s) you sent it to, and when you sent it. In late 2011 someone discovered their smart phone was taking pictures of themselves without their knowledge and sending the pictures elsewhere. 100s of secret police people cannot keep track of all of these conversations, web site looks, web pages read, copies of this phone's pictures, and the constant locations of phones-on-people who are moving here and there. COMPUTERS CAN. Facial recognition software has been analyzing crowd pictures since the 1990s to find and track movements of "persons of interest" in that crowd. Even in your own home, what is private and secret now?
• FairContracts.org (678) 0000-00-00 Cited by longtime consumer protection advocate Ralph Nader in his essay of 11.05.31 on his own web site, the Fair Contracts web site gives many examples of non-coercive contracts, how they can be created and responsibly agreed to.
• BM&C: The United States of... (451) 0000-00-00 Democracy Now of Thursday 12.09.27 "premiered" about 30 minutes of the new documentary film: "The United States of ALEC." The film was produced by the production company behind the PBS Television independent (progressive) journalism show "Bill Moyers and Company." See also JGW's "Issues..." article about ALEC and her thoughts of what the antidotes to ALEC's 35+ years of anti-democratic, anti-government efforts must be.
• GPs of US, CA, AU., NZ... (501) 0000-00-00 "The Green Party of the United States has joined Green Parties of Australia, Canada, and New Zealand in a "Joint Statement on Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement" that strongly criticizes the proposed international trade pact." Link and caption c/o Starlene Rankin, Sacramento, CA Green Party. 12.10.01
• LinkTV: The United States of... (373) 0000-00-00 LinkTV.org, home to very many progressive documentaries and non-mainstream news reporting from around the world, in November 2012 began rebroadcasting the 33 minute film "The United States of ALEC." This site contains both a replayable video stream and the cable, Direct-TV and DISH Network replay schedules for the film. "The United States of ALEC" film was produced by the Bill Moyers and Company investigative journalism group and originally aired on US public television (PBS) stations nationwide on September 27, 2012. The film is must-see news that clearly reveals one of the several major 35-38 years long efforts of the "Great Right Wing Conspiracy" primarily funded by a small number of conservative billionaires that has reshaped the US government, the governments of the 50 US states and now controls US politics and what can and cannot be said about those politics in the established main-stream media.
• NYT: Free Speech Over The... (742) 0000-00-00 In the New York Times Op-Ed section of 11.08.24, veteran legal writer Linda Greenhouse reviews how the 1978 "First National Bank of Boston vs. Bellotti" case led to the infamous 2010 "Citizens United" decision by the arguably "activist" conservative members of the U.S. Supreme Court. The "Citizens United" decision re-emphasized corporations' right to be treated legally as equal to individual people who have free speech rights. The decision thereby allowed the conservative and super-rich corporations to dominate the free speech that appears on the U.S. national news media (TV, cable TV, increasingly the Internet video streams of TV). Their content is also well produced, sparing no expense, but also cleverly framed (i.e. propagandistic). This now legally sanctioned corporate domination of the national mass media with what are often coercive deceitful messages in turn threatens to marginalize or silence those with less money and with inadequate or deficient "speech production" resources. So "free speech" no longer includes "the equal opportunity to speak and to be heard."
• NYT: A Victory for Google vs... (351) 0000-00-00 This article in the Friday January 4, 2013 (13.01.04) New York Times may indicate a new level of legal power enabling Google to dominate the Internet in the second decades of the 21st Century.
• NYT: How Google Swayed the... (333) 0000-00-00 The New York Times of Friday, January 4, 2013 (13.01.04) featured this article explaining how Google lawyers worked "behind the scenes" to persuade the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to rule in Google's favor. The FTC had charged Google with manipulating its search algorithms so that its Google-owned companies came up first after a search for, save, "travel services" and non-Google companies offering similar services came up later or last.
• WH: Obama's Judicial... (579) 0000-00-00 The White House (wh.gov) as of Sept. 2011 has published the Obama administration's judicial appointment record in his first 3 years in office. He is much less successful than were W. Bush or Clinton (surprise?).
• NYT: Fed Court Rejected... (363) 0000-00-00 The New York Times reported Friday, January 24, 2013 (13.01.24) that a Federal Court ruled today that Obama's recess appointments in winter 2012 to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) are unconstitutional. The activities of the NLRB or about legislation which affects its actions are seldom reported in the establishment (main-stream) US news. However, this repeal in early 2012 set up more and stronger attacks on "labor" and labor unions in the USA, what are left of unionized workers and unions for them, and on labor rights including the right of workers to form unions and bargin for pay and working conditions with "corporate management." To name a few effects, his repeal returns the appointments to the U.S. Senate to approve them, removes the appointees from their positions, delays re-seating the appointees, undermines and disrupts the activities of the departments they were managing, and pushes the Fed Court judgement to the U.S. Supreme Court.
• BM: Amgen Got "Sweetheart... (337) 0000-00-00 BillMoyers.com (BM) opened their Friday January 25, 2013 (13.01.25) hour long show with a 23 minutes interview with Representative Peter Welch (D-VT). He talked about how he and some other congress men were only made aware in the week just ended of the back room deal 2 corrupt senators (xxx and xxx) and one member of the House (xxx) made in the last day before the "Fiscal Cliff" emergency legislation was passed into law. If ever there was a top 10 example of Crony Capitalism in action in the U.S. Congress this 500 million wind-fall for the pharmaceutical company, Amgen, is surely near the top of the list... at least with respect to the last few years of continued "entitlements" amendments which corrupt Congress people add to bills put before the Congress.
• NYT: Krugman: The GOP are... (396) 0000-00-00 In his Monday February 4, 2013 (13.02.04) column in the New York Times, Princeton progressive economist and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman shows more signs he intends to "pull (soften) less (verbal) punches in 2013." This column berates the GOP (U.S. Conservative party) for being "Friends of Fraud." This is clearly a useful verbal attack for Greens to pickup, perhaps reframe or otherwise intensify, in 2013 through 2016 elections.
• PBS: Justice Department OKs... (411) 0000-00-00 The W. Bush era continues, at least within the U.S. Justice Department. The PBS News Hour of Tuesday February 5, 2013 (13.02.05) summarizes the recent history of drone killings of U.S. citizens abroad and of the new-found Justice Department "white paper" which authorizes these killings.
• BBC: Who Supports the... (536) 0000-00-00 Over the weekend of January 14-15 Wikipedia raised the alarm about two new anti-piracy laws moving through Congress, SOPA and PIPA. Both would severely limit the sharing of files over the Internet and enable the government to shut down small and large web sites for violating the copyright laws of the land. Small web sites will not have the resources to defend themselves in court. The BBC of Wednesday 12.01.18 reported on the people (the 1%) who are behind and are pushing for the passage of these laws.
• BBC: Wikipedia Takes its... (453) 0000-00-00 The BBC reported Wednesday 12.01.18 that the 5th most popular web site world-wide, Wikipedia, has taken the English version of its web site off-line for one day, 24 hours, this Wednesday. Google and Yahoo have done the same. These very large, very popular web sites are denying their free services and the wealth of information those services provide to their site users to raise public awareness about two new anti-piracy bills under debate in the US Congress, SOPA and PIPA. SOPA stands for Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PIPA stands for the Protect Intellectual Property Act. The laws are so broadly written, the protesting Internet site founders claim, that they enable the US government to censor the Internet. I (jgw) add that they also let the richest "monetizers" of intellectual property, buy-up, own, control and sell access to as much of the now free Internet content as the new owner-controllers' "free market profiteering schemes" will allow.
• BBC: SOPA and PIPA... (654) 0000-00-00 The BBC of Wednesday 12.01.18 offered this excellent explanation of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) currently in debate in the US Congress. Both laws, if passed, threaten to enable the US government to censor Internet content and Internet information exchange, and limit access to Internet published knowledge and information. In other words Internet content, including the digitized content of the world's libraries, will become more easily owned and controlled by those with the most money to own things.
• NYT: Whitehouse opposes... (535) 0000-00-00 The New York Times reported Saturday 12.01.14 that President Obama opposes parts of the new SOPA and PIPA laws now in debate in Congress. The press release stated: €œWe will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet.€
• NYT: Web Wide Protest Over... (487) 0000-00-00 The New York Times reported Wednesday 12.01.18 the protests of several very large web sites, e.g. Wikipedia, Reddit, and BoinBoing went "dark" all Wednesday. Google, Yahoo and others blacked-out their web site logos or had other "we're protesting" indicators on their sites all day. They were restricting access to their site's content for a brief 24 hour period to raise awareness of the threat of government censorship of Internet content if either the SOPA or PIPA laws pass in Congress. In the current state of nearly-global Plutocracy that government censorship, when in place, would highly favor the richest biggest private national and global corporations.
• NYT: Taping of Farm Cruelty... (323) 0000-00-00 On Sunday, April 7, 2013 (13.04.07) the New York Time presented this story reporting that some states are making it a crime to tape, audio or video record, the cruelty to animals that occurs on some farms. In other words, the cruelty to animals, whatever it may be, is to be ignored. The attempt to incriminate farm owners and managers for committing such cruelty is to be considered a crime.
• BBC: US Animal Activist Law... (423) 0000-00-00 The BBC reported Friday April 12, 2013 (13.04.12) a followup story to the New York Time's story of 13.04.07. The BBC explains how the new USA anti-animal-activist laws or Ag-Gag laws recently passed in a dozen states may lead to a global trend to banish animal activists from industrial animal farms and slaughter houses. That would officially and legally put the cruelty done to animals used for human food out of sight and out of mind and make a certainty that animal rights whistle blowers would suffer jail time, oppressive fines if not also the confiscation or destruction of their recording equipment!
• NPR: How Congress Quietly... (345) 0000-00-00 The U.S. National Public Radio (NPR.org) evening program (All Things Considered) of Tuesday April 16, 2013 (13.04.16) presented this in an almost 4 minutes long report. In short: how can the public file a Freedom of Information Request (FIR) for records of corrupt dealings of their congress members if they don't know the names of the documents or what might be on file? With much "fan fair" (publicity) Congress created, passed and President Obama signed into law on April 4, 2012, the STOCK act. The STOCK act in part required full public disclosure of which congress members make what Wall Street trades, when they make them, with whom on Wall Street they make them, and if and when they are also proposing or proposed or are voting or voted for laws which would cause stock prices (or bond prices) to increase before the general public has a chance to make stock trades. If so, that would be insider trading to maximize the congress person's personal profit, and it would be illegal. The congress person would have to resign from office! Yet Congress members have engaged in exactly these kinds of insider trading acts for decades! Only the Financial Collapse of 2008 to-date has brought the practice to the public's attention. The NPR reporter describes how in the year since the STOCK act became law, some Congress members made sure no one would ever find the new, more revealing and detailed stock trading and vote making records that the law requires to be created. They are kept in either or both in an impossible to index or search database or in paper files in a basement storage area in Washington, D.C.
• PBS: The Income Tax in 1913:... (380) 0000-00-00 Yes, in 1913, the U.S. Income tax was a progressive income tax and it "soaked the rich" to help the poor. And that wasn't the only time in the last 100 years the U.S. income tax has been so progressive. Yet we've come a long ways backwards, baby! So says Paul Salmon, economics commentator for the PBS Newshour program in his Monday, tax day, April 15, 2013 segment on the program.

LGBT Issues: US and Other Countries (weblinks)

• S&E: Changing Attitudes... (450) 0000-00-00 In 1982 the Siskel and Ebert movie review show on US public television stations broadcast this 22 minutes long commentary about changing attitudes towards homosexuality in the movies, from 1969 Staircase and 1970 Boys in the Band to the then new movie Victor-Victoria. Bisexual, TG and TS issues were not mentioned. 2011 reviewers Christy Lemire and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of the updated S&E PBS show, "Ebert Presents At the Movies", add their contemporary observations for 8 minutes in the remainder of the 30 minute show. See also the 2011 TS-abuse movie: "Gun Hill Road."

Making a Campaign Web Site with Drupal (weblinks)

Medicare for All / Single Payer USA (weblinks)

• NYT: Krugman: The Geezers... (429) 0000-00-00 Without mentioning "Medicare for All," progressive Economist Paul Krugman wrote in his Monday June 3, 2013 New York Times column that "The Geezers Are (and will be) OK." In his context he believes Obama's Affordable Care Act contains many helpful improvements to health care and to controlling health care costs, some in effect now, more to be in effect in 2014 and later years. At least "the Geezers" (seniors and some of the disabled) are most certain to benefit somewhat in coming years. Is that enough change for you, dear reader?
• DWTV: Obama Care Divides... (460) 0000-00-00 Deutche Welle TV (www.dw.de) which mostly covers the EU, also has more insightful stories about USA politics than almost all US media outlets, sometimes even Democracy Now. This is one. In short: "Obama Care" has already been successfully undermined in 26 of the 50 US states just as the registration period has begun Oct. 1, 2013."
• NYT: Millions of Poor Are... (407) 0000-00-00 The New York Time of October 2, 2013, (13.10.03), just one day after the pre-registration period for the Affordable Care Act (Obama Care) began, showed that several million poor people in the USA will not receive ANY health care coverage when the ACA goes into effect Jan. 1, 2014. This "flaw in Obama care," while over-hyped by conservatives without explanation as they use any excuse to try to kill the ACA (and the people who will benefit somewhat from it), is an excellent fact to cite for progressives when we call-out again for Medicare for All from now through the 2014 and 2016 elections.
• NYT: Interactive Map: Where... (510) 0000-00-00 The New York Time of October 2, 2013, (13.10.03), just one day after the pre-registration period for the Affordable Care Act (Obama Care) began, published an interactive map, this map, that shows where the several million poor people live in the USA who will not receive ANY health care coverage from the ACA when it goes into effect Jan. 1, 2014.
• PBS: Poor Punished in States... (494) 0000-00-00 The PBS Newshour program of October 7, 2013, (13.10.07) broadcast this story about the side-effects on the poor of the US States which opt-opt of the Affordable Care Act's (Obama Care's) Medicaid Expansion provisions. Watch the conservatives interviewed lie and deceive on-camera.
• DN: Is Obama Care Enough... (500) 0000-00-00 Democracy Now progressive news program of 8 a.m. EDT (NYC) Monday October 7, 2013 (13.10.07) presented two ardent supporters of Single Payer / Medicare For All. They commented on many more of the progressive issues related to the pre-registration of "Obama Care" which began on October 1, 2013... in a rather hap-hazard and flawed way.
• NYT: Krugman: The 2012... (540) 0000-00-00 In his Monday October 29, 2012 column (12.10.29) in the New York Times, progressive economist Paul Krugman explained how the fate of the Medicaid program and of all Medicaid recipients in the USA is very much a major issue of the 2012 General Election. Paraphrasing Krugman: "Who wins the US Presidency on Nov. 6, 2012, will determine the quality, availability, and costs of your health care in the USA for several decades to come." Too bad Krugman missed the part where "who controls Congress and how" will also determine your health care.
• CR: The Affordable Care Act... (1039) 0000-00-00 The Consumer Reports (CR) web site has at least two downloadable PDF pamphlets for "consumers" (sic) of health care to read about how the rules for access to health care have changed because of the Affordable Health Care Act of 2009, a.k.a. ObamaCare.
• Wikipedia: Patient... (534) 0000-00-00 Wikipedia.org has had since late Fall 2012 or earlier this overview and explanation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009, a.k.a. ObamaCare, which President Obama signed into law on March 23, 2010.
• NYT: GOP Governors Give In... (373) 0000-00-00 The New York Times of Thursday February, 21, 2013 (13.02.21) reported the GOP Governors who are reversing their adamant contempt for "Obama Care" at least by accepting the government funded expansions to Medicaid programs in their state. These expansions are provided in the "Affordable Care Act" and should be "in-place" (available to citizens) in 2014.

Miscellaneous Progressive Resources (weblinks)

• PBS: Overview: Code for... (420) 0000-00-00 The PBS Newshour program of Monday May 20, 2013 (13.05.20) presented this 9:25 minutes report summarizing how the new non-profit start-up "Code for America" in downtown San Francisco is providing it's web site creation and web application services not only to other non-profits but also to government entities starting the SF Bay Area.
• The Code for America web site (349) 0000-00-00 The Code for America non-profit start-up company based in San Francisco was the topic of a 9 minutes long story in the PBS Newshour of May 20, 2013 (13.05.20). Their home page announces: "Code for America helps governments work better for everyone with the people and the power of the web. Through our Fellowship, Accelerator, and Brigade [programs], we're building a network of cities, citizens, community groups, and startups, all equally committed to reimagining government for the 21st century." CFA may be useful to the GPCA if not also to the GP USA and GP Canada. To determine that, Greens will need to explore CFA's web software development and deployment services, their fees if any, and their staff's and management's degree of affection if any for progressive causes and third parties. However, being based in SF suggests they are at least a bit left of liberal. They also may have more technical expertise, to be determined, than does Radical Design also based in SF which advertises that it's services are primarily for progressive groups.
• SalsaLabs.com for DIA... (571) 0000-00-00 Need help building your liberal or progressive web site? Need help planning your "democracy in action" (DIA) type non-profit organization or campaign, including the "information technologies" to use and your web site? Check-out Salsa Labs for help.

Multimedia Web Content Production Tools (weblinks)

• The SnappyTV Service (478) 0000-00-00 SnappyTV.com let's TV watchers capture "special moments" of TV shows, news shows, or political speeches on TV. PBS used it to capture sound-and-video bites of Obama's "Jobs Program" speech of 11.09.08. What if GPCA people captured, say, GOP liberal bashing and Obama bashing speech sound bites and their fact-free views of the world? What if expert digital multimedia editors in the Green Party collected and archived those "bites," made transcripts, or made Internet "ads" including those "bites" which show the Green Party is more sanely, soberly, and practically progressive than have been the Democrats?

News (weblinks)

News and Commentary for Progressives (weblinks)

• The Real News Network web site (417) 0000-00-00
• PBS: Money, Power and Wall... (547) 0000-00-00 The four part series "Money, Power and Wall Street" debuted on U.S. Public Television stations (PBS) on Tuesday 12.04.24. The series seems to be an update of The Great Recession, if not also a rehabilitation of the reputations of key figures in the Economic Collapse of 2007-2008, the $700,000,000,000 (700 billion dollar) TARP bailout of late 2008, and what "recovery" may have occurred thereafter in the Obama administration's first term in office. Many of the key figures at the time the crisis began have been in the Obama administration's first term and are interviewed in effect in the last G.W. Bush year, 2008, and in 2009 - early 2012. This appears to be an intelligent 7th-9th grade level over-simplification of the crisis and its aftermath, but a good one.
• RawStory: Brain Structure... (605) 0000-00-00 The Raw Story web site published in early April, 2011, their summary of a recent study of the brains of Liberals and Conservatives. If liberals are to ever educate and raise consciousness in die-hard conservatives, we've got a lot of work ahead of us.
• Market Place Radio (434) 0000-00-00 Market Place radio, carried on Public Radio International (PRI), may not be progressive, may be too conservative for the tastes of most Greens, but it sometimes does have some interesting news of use to Greens. Interesting if one wants to re-frame a story or produce and provide a progressively re-framed follow-up story to a Market Place story.
• TruthDig: Drilling Beneath... (451) 0000-00-00 Progressive spokesperson, journalist and writer Chris Hedges, former New York Times writer for 15 years, writes for Truth Dig.
• Michael Moore's web site (474) 0000-00-00 Progressive filmmaker Michael Moore's web site.
• Noam Chomsky vs. Bill... (648) 0000-00-00 YouTube video stream of a 1969 television debate.
• DemocracyNow news and archives (450) 0000-00-00

Occupy Our Homes (OOH) (weblinks)

Occupy Wall Street Protests (weblinks)

• The OccupyStream.com web site (378) 0000-00-00 Monitor all the Occupy Wall Street protests world wide on this web site, created Oct. 16, 2011.
• NYT: Krugman: Wall Street... (445) 0000-00-00
• Economist: Global Occupy... (516) 0000-00-00 The Economist magazine, based in London, published this very short article 11.10.17 summarizing the global Occupy Wall Street protests of 11.10.15. The "each country focused on..." remarks and the numbers by country might be interesting.
• The BOPSecrets.org web site (410) 0000-00-00 The aging communist-socialist activist and would-be (hopefully non-violent, least-violence) revolutionary, Ken Knabb, founder and content author of the Bureau Of Public Secrets web site, offers an excellent analysis of the global "Occupy Protests" of Sept. 17 - Oct. 15, 2011. His site also makes available a long list of further-left 1960s and contemporary articles that exist online for anyone to read and study.
• The YES Magazine web site (379) 0000-00-00 YES! Magazine is a (progressive) non-profit, ad-free magazine that covers topics of social justice, environmental sustainability, alternative economics, and peace. Founder, spokesperson Sarah van Gelder, Seattle, has published opinions on the Global Occupy Wall Street protests of Oct. 15, 2011.
• BBC: Is Occupy... Getting... (418) 0000-00-00 Occupy Wall Street protests are generating so much general assembly news (news from daily protester meetings) that the news may be getting lost online. The BBC of 11.10.18, 3 days after the 100+ Global OWS protests, published this video report. UPDATE: The BADCamp (Bay Area Drupal web-site Developers gathering) at U.C. Berkeley, Oct. 21-23, had a break-out meeting in which many Drupalers decided to begin building a Drupal-powered web site that will collect and present the news from all the general assembly meetings world wide. If successful, the site probably will also offer summaries of that site-specific news as well, and online voting to attempt to reach consensus on opinions and actions "the protesting people" most favor for their regions, in a state (or province), in multiple states (or provinces) and across countries.
• SFGate: Occupy Oakland Camp... (429) 0000-00-00 The San Francisco Chronicle reported Tuesday 11.10.25 that the Oakland police removed the Occupy Oakland camp and arrested 85 protesters at about 5 a.m. Tuesday for public health and safety reasons.
• Lede: Occupy Oakland,... (668) 0000-00-00 The Lede reported Wednesday 11.10.26 in detail with videos that police shutdown Occupy Oakland and Atlanta possibly with excessive force and planted agitators on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively.
• SFGate: Tents, Protesters... (413) 0000-00-00
• SFGate: Occupy Oakland... (508) 0000-00-00 The San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate.com, published this report of a disagreement remaining among the Occupy Oakland protesters. After the 100 or so "Black Bloc" violent provocateurs damaged property during the General Strike of Wednesday 11.10.3 and again in the early hours of Thursday, the non-violent protesters of Occupy Oakland have not reached a "consensus" agreement about how to deal with provocateurs of even if they should.
• SFGate: UC Berkeley Students... (481) 0000-00-00 The SF Chronicle reported Thursday 11.11.10 that on Wednesday several 100 U.C. Berkeley students and a few faculty members attempted twice to create an Occupy tent camp outside Sproul Hall, the campus administration building. Campus and Alameda County police in riot gear violently broke up the camp site both times, early afternoon and at dusk, viciously battering the campers with their batons and tearing down their tents. About 40 were arrested. U.C. Santa Cruz attempted something similar Wednesday, still to be reported. Some U.C. Berkeley students vowed to return Thursday and Friday nights to reestablish a tent city -- and face riot police again. As of 7 a.m. 11.11.10 some 30 or so students were milling around in front of Sproul Hall at UC Berkeley, several tents were set up there as well while police watched the small crowd passively. 100 at 10 a.m.
• SFGate: Man Shot to Death at... (462) 0000-00-00 The SF Bay Area television news services and the SF Chronicle reported late Thursday evening 11.11.10 that a young man was shot to death at the Oakland Occupy movement tent city by Oakland City Hall. Early reports say he was involved in a drug deal that "went bad." Apparently there were no Oakland police on-site to stop this violence or detect the illegal drug deal. Oakland Mayor Quan has flip-flopped again to demand that Occupy Oakland vacate their camp-in at City Hall immediately, in effect blaming the non-violent protesters for the shooting, for the opportunity for drug dealers to hide among the protesters, and for not providing sufficient police protection and surveillance of the camp-site.
• SFGate: Occupy Oakland Camp... (381) 0000-00-00 The SF Chronicle, KRON-TV (kron.com), and other SF Bay Area television and radio news stations reported the complete destruction of the Occupy Oakland camp site at 14th/Broadway in front of Oakland City Hall this Monday morning 11.11.14. After handing out "arrest warning" flyers over the weekend and issuing loud speaker announcements in the early hours of Monday, about 6:15 a.m. Alameda County and possibly other sheriff department police in riot gear ripped down all the tents in Frank Ogawa plaza in about 20-25 minutes. About 30 protesters were arrested, only one person was found in the tent area when police moved in. Whether and how the protesters will retrieve their camping property remains to be determined.
• MSNBC: Portland, Denver,... (349) 0000-00-00 MSNBC reported Monday 11.11.14 that in addition to the Occupy Oakland, over the weekend Occupy camp sites in Portland, Denver, and Salt Lake City were shutdown by police in riot gear. Welcome to how Corporate Owned AmeriKa operates to maintain business as usual and minimize real debate or pervasive social change outside various marginalized counter-cultural ghettos.
• NYT: Occupy Wall Street Camp... (415) 0000-00-00 The New York Times reported Tuesday 11.11.15 that the New York City police broke up the two month old OWS camp site in Zuccotti park early Tuesday morning arresting many. Police removed all the tents and protesters, possibly taking tents and personal property to either a dump site or storage service. Police allegedly using excessive force arrested 200 protesters including 50-60 bystanders most for disorderly conduct. The park area had been power washed and was ready for business as stores and offices in the area opened. As noon approached about 50 protesters had returned to the park but not with camping equipment. A New York City judge ruled early Tuesday that the police acted illegally. A NY State appellate judge upheld the legal justifications for the NYC city police action by Tuesday afternoon.
• SFGate: Police Tear Down... (400) 0000-00-00 The SF Chronicle, SFGate.com, reported Thursday 11.11.16 that in the early hours of Thursday police tore down 15 tents that had "spilled over" from the "accepted" 1-2 months old camp sites at Justin Herman Plaza and the entrance to the Federal Reserve Building. Both camp site locations are on Market Street near the Embarcadero and the SF Bay.
• TP: Karl Rove to America:... (418) 0000-00-00 ThinkProgress.org (TP) reported Thursday 11.11.17 that Karl Rove told a Baltimore audience Wednesday night: "Who gave you the right to Occupy America?" Apparently he resents being left out of that decision making process.
• SFGate: Police Break Up... (398) 0000-00-00 The San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate.com, of Thursday 11.11.17 reported that U.C. Berkeley (UCB a.k.a. "Cal") police aided by police officers from several SF Bay Area Sheriff departments broke up the latest Occupy Cal tent encampment early Thursday a.m. The resurrected camp site in front of UCB administration building Sproul Hall, was only two (2) days old. But over 1000 people attended a rally at that location Wednesday afternoon. Former Secretary of Labor, Professor Robert Riech, who is in solidarity with the Occupy Movement addressed the crowd during the rally.
• SFGate: 28 Pixs of Worldwide... (295) 0000-00-00
• BBC: Occupy Protest Police... (314) 0000-00-00
• DN: 84 yr. old Dorli Ramey... (319) 0000-00-00 Democracy Now video interview and transcript. 27 minutes.
• DN: Paramilitary Policing of... (296) 0000-00-00 Democracy Now video discussion and transcript. 22 minutes.
• SFGate: Occupy Oakland camp... (277) 0000-00-00 The San Francisco Chronicle online, SFGate.com reported Friday 11.11.18 that the Occupy Oakland protesters plan to relocate their tent-city campsite 5 blocks north of the Oakland City Hall after a march to the site on Saturday. Some of their new neighbors support the move and the Occupy movement, others object. Oakland police say the new camp site is also illegal.
• BBC: Occupy London occupies... (341) 0000-00-00 The BBC reports that on Friday 11.11.18 some Occupy London protesters took over, squatted in, a large vacant Swiss UBS bank building in the Hackney district of east London. In fact the building takes up a complete city block, has many offices, underground parking and a large meeting hall!
• SFGate: Police Raid New... (270) 0000-00-00 Sunday early morning SF Police raided the SF Occupy camp site removing all the tents setup outside the Federal Reserve Bank. Sunday afternoon, Oakland Police raided and removed the Occupy Oakland camp site created Saturday evening on a vacant lot at 19th/Broadway, the "Uptown" district of Oakland.
• NYT: Krugman: "We Are the... (282) 0000-00-00 Economist Paul Krugman in his Friday 11.11.25 column in the New York Times says the slogan "We Are the 99%" is great but "aims too low." He says it could be better like "We Are the 99.9%."
• NYT: Gandhi vs OWS (291) 0000-00-00 Dr. Ian Desai, newly appointed professor at Wesley College and expert on Mohandas K. Gandhi, opines in the New York Times of 11.11.30 "What Would Gandhi Do" to improve the Occupy Wall Street movement?
• SFGate: SFSU Students Debate... (272) 0000-00-00 The San Francisco Chronicle online, SFGate.com, reported late Thursday afternoon 11.12.01 that SFSU Students started their own Occupy Camp Site on-campus. One unexpected result was that University President Robert Corrigan engaged them in a public debate for at least an hour.
• MSNBC: Occupiers Prevent... (274) 0000-00-00 On the MSNBC Rachel Maddow show of Thursday 11.12.01, Rachel reported how Occupiers in Cleveland, OH, occupied the back yard of the home of woman facing an eviction order. As of this report the bank demanding eviction postponed that eviction for 30 days. Rachel also prefaces this report with an excellent summary of the "Hoover Ville" slums of the 1930s and the mass protests that took place then to prevent evictions. 8:25 minutes
• The OccupyOurHomes web site (282) 0000-00-00 A new branch of the Occupy Wall Street movement has formed. Called "Occupy Our Homes" and reported on the Rachel Maddow Show of 11.12.01, OOH organizers seek to move ardent Occupiers to the property of householders who's homes are being foreclosed. In this way OOH protesters raise awareness of the pain and suffering of the evicted or soon to be evicted home owners, and the scheming intractability of the mortgage holding banks involved.
• SFGate: Occupy SF Regroups... (336) 0000-00-00 SF Police raid Occupy SF camp site about 1 a.m. in the early morning hours of Wednesday 11.12.07, removing all tents and belongings to an open-to-the-weather storage area 1.5 miles away. Protesters get access to their sometimes torn or broken belongs 12 hours later. Protesters regroup in the evening at the Justin Herman Plaza camp site -- but without tents. SF's Union Square, Embarcadero district, and Financial district once again "open for holiday business as usual" plus a few scruffy protesters and the usual homeless, if they don't block sidewalks. Mayor Lee steps up his Crowd Control chops a notch. SFGate 11.12.08
• NYT: Police Evict Occupy... (387) 0000-00-00
• CCXRoads: LAPD Destroys... (373) 0000-00-00 The Culver City Crossroads online news from Culver City California, LA County, featured this editorial by one of the middle class Occupy protesters arrested Wednesday 11.12.07.
• CD: Occupy Economics... (278) 0000-00-00 Just when I thought CommonDreams.org (CD) could only spit naive immature Obama bashing slogans into the wind, the group came up with an Occupy protest, actually a class walk out, at Harvard that occurred 11.11.02. Apparently it has taken CD 6 weeks to report the story. However, this report, an insightful contextual overview of the walk-out, names some very interesting "alternative liberal economics" textbooks, one particular very pro plutocrats conservative economics textbook and the two professors who have taught from the latter textbook at Harvard over the years. The Harvard students of the class using that biased textbook finally said "enough propaganda", enough of getting little to no real practical liberal, or at least more "open minded" economics instruction and left the class. That kind of walk-out has not happened since the 1960s.
• Occupy Portland Outsmarts... (444) 0000-00-00 News from the Occupy Portland web site, Friday 11.12.16.
• NYT: Occupy monitored by FBI... (286) 0000-00-00 The New York Times reported Christmas eve, 2012 (12.12.24) that the FBI infiltrated and monitored the activities of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City. The FBI considered OWS people to be "domestic terrorists." What other Occupy gatherings in 2011 to-date were infiltrated and surveilled by what other government local, state, and/or federal organizations?
• NYT: Occupy Protests Leave... (282) 0000-00-00 The New York Time reported Saturday 12.02.04 that the recent violent Occupy Oakland protests have "left Oakland undefended, leaving parts of Oakland underserved." Does "underserved" mean "insecure?" Is "better police security required for Oakland?"

Occupy Web Sites (weblinks)

• The Occupy Together web site... (279) 0000-00-00 Care of Kendra Gonzales and Occupy Oxnard, California: In early December 2011, Occupy Together combined data sets with WeAllOccupy and the Federated General Assembly to create the most comprehensive listing of Occupations on the planet. The Occupy Directory features an interactive map with instant access to physical addresses, Facebook, emails, websites, LiveStreams, Meetups and more. The data below is a recent download of the dataset. From Albania to Yemen, 1400 Occupations across the globe. View an interactive map, find your Occupation, add a new listing or register to comment. Point your browser to directory.occupy.net or go to Occupy Together (www.occupytogether.org) -> Actions & Directory. www.occupytogether.org
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• The CA-US Tar Sands... (377) 0000-00-00 The Democracy Now broadcast of Monday 12.10.15 (see democracynow.org) featured a segment about protesters in Texas that are trying to delay or halt Keystone XL's pipeline construction activities. Despite nationwide objections in both countries, Keystone XL of Canada is creating the "last 250-500 miles" of their trans-continental north-south oil pipeline that they plan to run from the Tar Sands excavation project in southern Alberta, Canada, south though mid-western states and Texas to Louisiana and refineries near the Gulf of Mexico. USA national protesters in 2011 claimed that the project and future leaks from the very high pressure pipeline would destroy huge centuries-old aquifers under several mid-west states. Their protests managed to persuade President Obama to veto legislation that would have approved the entire project and provided some government funds for it. Instead he called for further studies of the environmental impacts and of alternative routes. However some months later, Obama approved the construction of the "last leg" of the project from Oklahoma through Texas and possible then into Louisiana. The Tar Sands Blockade Coalition, existing since early 2012, is attempting to coordinate these protests and the work-halting blockade activities in Texas and other states. In addition to protesting the likely extraordinary environmental damage, the protesters also protest how the construction has taken place in Texas. The law of imminent domain has been used repeatedly and possibly illegal on behalf of Keystone XL and used coercively by XL to extort and seize private land rights. XL has seized OK and TX lands at very low price or by government fiat. Scorched-earth style land clearing and pipeline construction is underway. jgw 12.10.15

Occupy Wireless Communications (weblinks)

Oil Dependencies, Oil Drilling, Oil Spills (weblinks)

• NYT 6.3.10 article on latest... (542) 0000-00-00 On June 3, 2010, the New York Times published in print and online this article explaining British Petroleum's (renee: Beyond Petroleum) failure to stop the oil gusher from the broken well-head of the mile-deep "New Horizon" off-shore drilling rig. This article explains why BP's previous efforts to stop the flow at the well head, mainly inserting mud and hard objects, may have cause their last attempt to cut-off the well-head pipe to dull the robot-controlled saw blades! FYI this means BP will "come back" to the US government and world-wide public in coming months of 2010 and in the years that follow to claim that they learned from their mistakes and they can do better with multi-mile deep well blow-outs "the next time"! FTR the drill rig exploded and sank to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico in early May 2010. The oil from the well has been spewing into the Gulf of Mexico ever since.
• 12 Mediocre Ways to Cleanup... (554) 0000-00-00 In a New York Times Op-Ed of Sunday 10.06.06, three authors explain that 12 mediocre ways are the best oil producers can do to clean up a spill like the April 2010 "New Horizons" oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. QUESTION: How can Greens do better?
• SFGate: Sen Feinstein + GOP... (480) 0000-00-00 The San Francisco Chronicle, (www.sfgate.com) reported 11.05.07 that California Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein has joined with GOP Tea Party supporter, Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, to oppose any further federal tax subsidies for the producers of Ethanol additives to gasoline. Ethanol is made from corn. The late 2000 increased popularity of ethanol, long a farm tractor fuel, and the subsequent increase in ethanol production for US cars and trucks is a major cause of the world wide increase in the price of food, generally. The new 2011 stronger opposition to ethanol production from corn and to the ethanol tax subsidies also confronts the very powerful US corn lobby.
• UCTV: Oil and Money with Gov... (513) 0000-00-00 On 11.05.05 liberal former Florida Governor and 18 year Senator Bob Graham spoke at the Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. His topic was "Oil and Money: The Twin Crises of 2010." The sub-sub-title is "...and how public policy can protect our vital interests." He was Co-Chair of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. 59 minutes video stream.
• SA: Understanding... (494) 0000-00-00 The SustainableAttorney.com web site posted this article 11.08.22 explaining with some "legal-ese" language how the currently proposed TransCanada XL tar-sands oil pipeline project is supposed to work. The site also discusses the opinions of the proponents for and opponents to the building of this huge pipeline. If built, it would carry Alberta, CA tar-sand crude oil south through Alberta, then through the mid-west states to Texas oil refineries. The refined oil would then be shipped throughout the USA and elsewhere via existing pipelines, but also by rail, trucks, and ships on the Gulf of Mexico. The possibility (or risk) for devastating oil spills along the pipeline route would increase dramatically. However the supply would make the USA (and Canada) almost completely oil-independent on mid-east oil suppliers.

Opinions (weblinks)

Organizing, Organizers (weblinks)

• BM&C: Convicted Protestor... (522) 0000-00-00 There are many "short and sweet" and 100% on-point progressive remarks in this the second segment of the Bill Moyers and Company (BM&C) PBS progressive commentary show of Friday May 24, 2013 (13.05.24). The segment is 34 minutes long; the last 15 minutes seem especially compelling and the last one minute in which Tim DeChristopher addresses a crowd outside a court house is perhaps the most compelling for civil disobedience activists. This segment of BM&C featured Tim DeChristopher who was recently released from prison after having served his 2 year sentence for the felony conviction of disrupting a Utah oil and mineral rights bidding auction in 2008 in the last year of the W. Bush administration. The auction, like so many before it across the USA, was designed in part to sell to private companies and individuals the rights to drill for oil on public lands in the state of Utah. In 2008 DeChristopher, a recent college graduate, attended this auction, took a bidding card only because it was offered to him, and then decided to bid on land parcels and make a farce of the auction. As a result he made many winning bids for which he could not pay and that was a federal crime. His unique protest created a national sensation especially among environmental rights and climate change activists. The previous 5 years of preparing for and enduring a somewhat fixed and predetermined jury trial, as Tim describes it, and then his 2 year prison sentence have produced a more intelligent and compassionate activist leader. As of May 2013 he identifies himself as a "Climate Activist," has founded the "Peaceful Uprising" political action group and is headed for Harvard Divinity School in the Fall of 2013 where he will study to be a Unitarian minister... and no doubt to be a very spiritual, inter-faith respecting, and more compelling community organizer than he already appears to be in this BM&C interview.
• The RiseUp.net web site (494) 0000-00-00 RiseUp.net provides "online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change. We are a project to create democratic alternatives and practice self-determination by controlling our own secure means of communications."

Other Off-Site Progressive Opinions (weblinks)

• The Old Enemies:... (550) 0000-00-00 Progressive economist Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist and blogger, summarizes the malicious motives of the leaders of the largest corporations, who as aging journalist Bill Moyer's has said on his now-defunct Bill Moyer's Journal PBS television show, "own Washington D.C." In this link-poster's opinion they are the leaders and funders of the ultra conservative (fascist?) "shadow government" that are really in charge of what happens and does not happen in Washington, D.C., and what does and does not happen in the USA, with the national and international economy, and are the ultimate "deciders" of what the US Military does at home and abroad.
• AlterNet: Progressive's Case... (673) 0000-00-00 Less than a month before the November 2010 mid-term national elections in the USA, "green ferret" wrote this article for the AlterNet blog site. It summarizes the widely held progressive motivations that sustain the US Green Party and Greens globally. The article was put back into focus 11.02.20 on Facebook by Kendra Gonzalez, coordinator of the campaigns and candidates committee for the California Green Party.
• GPUS: Iraq Troops Come Home (488) 0000-00-00 In a new web site article, 11.12.19, the Green Party, US Hq. says it "welcomes news of troop withdrawal from Iraq, urges further steps for peace."
• The WinningProgressive.org... (751) 0000-00-00
• The Russia Today web site (433) 0000-00-00 The Russia Today (RT.com) web site features progressive -- if also possibly overtly or covertly communistic or socialist -- news stories primarily about Russia but also international news notably about Europe and the USA. RT also presents progressive editorials of varying "worth" to non-violent progressives.
• The Dissident Voice web site (423) 0000-00-00 The Dissident Voice web site, dissidentvoice.org, declares itself to be "a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice."

Other Resources (weblinks)

• The USA Data.gov web site (450) 0000-00-00 When President Obama assumed office in 2009, one of the first things he did was mandate that all government agencies web-publish their non-classified information on a new government web site, Data.gov. You do not need to submit a "Freedom of Information" request to access THIS public government information! ...But that doesn't mean the data you want will be that easy to find.

Other Watchdog Organizations (weblinks)

• The Alternative Radio web site (429) 0000-00-00 Alternative Radio in Boulder, Colorado, keeps an archive of interviews with progressives like Noam Chomsky, Bill Moyers, and many others.
• FB: Left Wing Radio Stations... (331) 0000-00-00 This is link is from the 13.06.11 Occupy Greens Facebook group's main page.
• The ColorOfChange.org web site (279) 0000-00-00 Representatives of the progressive Color Of Change organization appeared on Democracy Now Wednesday 12.04.18 "talking back" and increasing the backlash to the predatory capitalist goals of the ALEC organization. ALEC has suffered the loss of several large corporate sponsors of the organization in the first half of 2012 since "progressive" and "establishment" media exposed their decade-long secretive tactic of creating work-alike pro-free-market, anti-union legislation which many U.S. states have adopted.
• The CAGreening Blogspot web... (510) 0000-00-00
• The FreeSpeechForPeople.org... (418) 0000-00-00
• The PolitiFact.org web site (290) 0000-00-00
• The WarIsACrime.org web site (421) 0000-00-00
• The FactCheck.org web site (298) 0000-00-00
• Human Rights Watch (507) 0000-00-00 Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world, standing with victims and activists to bring offenders to justice.
• Amnesty International USA (514) 0000-00-00 Amnesty International is dedicated to protecting human rights worldwide, stopping torture, defending women's rights, abolishing the death penalty and defending the rights of individuals everywhere.
• DN+TheNation: Voting Rights... (273) 0000-00-00 The Nation Magazine supports the Voting Rights Watch 2012 operation. This link and organization within "The Nation" operation is care of Democracy Now, their Tuesday 12.08.28 program from the Republican Convention in Tampa, Florida.
• DN: Judicial Watch (305) 0000-00-00 Judical Watch is watchdog over the US government, it's legal, and judicial systems. The site posts a summary of the court cases they are pursuing along with related news stories. This link and organization comes from the Tuesday 12.08.28 program of Democracy Now from the Republican Convention in Tampa, Florida.
• ALECexposed.org (572) 0000-00-00 ALECexposed.org is a web site founded by Lisa Graves. She and others monitor and report the activities of the ALEC organization. The American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC, has existed since the 1970s to fund and organize extreme right wing think tanks and political action committees. ALEC has evolved into an organization which has drafted over 800 state laws. The laws support free unregulated non-unionized markets and other ultra conservative / libertarian ideals. Like minded management of conservative large corporations revise, extend and agree by majority vote on the content of a final version of the legislation. Right wing "fellow traveler" legislators in various right-leaning U.S. states then accept this corporate-written legislation, attempt to get it passed and signed into law in their respective states.
• PRWatch.org (508) 0000-00-00 PRWatch.org is a web site published by the progressive Center for Media and Democracy.
• The Free and Equal Elections... (268) 0000-00-00 The Free and Equal Foundation sponsored the cable TV and Internet based "Third Party Presidential Debate" of October 23, 2012. The debate was held in a Hilton hotel in Chicago. Presidential candidates were: Jill Stein (Green Party), Rocky Anderson (Justice Party), Gary Johnson (former New Mexico governor and Libertarian Party candidate), and Virgil Goode (Constitution Party, a more right leaning group of libertarians). This debate can be found as a link in the "2012 Election" web links section of this web site and on the CSPAN.org web site.
• The Food and Water Watch web... (469) 0000-00-00 The Food and Water Watch web site attempts to bring "accurate and important information to people spreading the word about issues that only a few of us used to be aware of."
• The Global Trade Watch web... (480) 0000-00-00 The TradeWatch.org web site is part of the Global Public Citizen (citizen.org) collection of web sites. Among other things, GTW watches the World Trade Organization (WTO) and it's rulings. The WTO, located in Geneva Switzerland, consists of unelected members of treaty-member countries, none of whom are directly accountable to the general public.
• The Deep Green Resistence... (495) 0000-00-00 c/o KPFA-Fm (kpfa.org), 11.12.23, progressive radio for the SF Bay Area.
• The On The Media monitoring... (287) 0000-00-00 On The Media (.org) monitors the US media operations and reports, breaking many seldom reported (or late reported) stories of interest to progressives.
• The KPFA.org web site (459) 0000-00-00
• The CounterPunch.org web site (428) 0000-00-00 "Tell the Facts; Name the Names" is their slogan. Very progressive site; many reporters contributing to its content.
• The Truth Dig web site (472) 0000-00-00 TruthDig.com presents essays by progressive activists and articles by progressive fact-finding reporters who put the lie to biased, perhaps propagandistic, establishment news media reporting.
• The ConsumerWatchDog.org web... (443) 0000-00-00
• The GreenPartyWatch web site (500) 0000-00-00
• The OpEdNews.com web site (430) 0000-00-00
• The GasLand web site (409) 0000-00-00 The movie, Gas Land, debuted in 2011. as of January 2012, director Josh Fox is producing a sequel to it. This is the web site for the movies and the their reports of the dangers of fracking shale rock to release natural gas.
• The Green Tech Media web site (435) 0000-00-00
• The WagingNonViolence.org... (270) 0000-00-00 Given that Occupy Oakland was one of the first Occupy efforts after New York City's to create tent cities, given that some Occupy Oakland protests and marches were infiltrated by violent youths intent on breaking windows and glass doors, destroying news stands, and provoking the police, and given that 100s more of them did the same the weekend of Jan. 28-29, 2012, the WagingNonViolence.org web site is a very welcome "watch dog" and beacon for how "the revolution will be won."
• The ClimateCrock.com web site (561) 0000-00-00 The example web page at the end of this link demonstrates some huffy head-butting bad boys with half-way Green good ideas trying to beat down the climate criticizers. But their observations and examples of the Information Fascists and their anti-green tactics seem valid.
• The FlackCheck.org web site (281) 0000-00-00 The Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania started the Flack Check non-partisan, online political information service in late 2011 or early 2012. Flack Check takes off-the-air political attack ads, makes its own analysis of them, compares their analysis to the research done on the radio, TV, and Internet truth-checking sites like FactCheck.org and points out on the FlackCheck.org site how political attack ads distort the truth. It is way past time to have this service, these services, online.
• The Republican Dirty Tricks... (1034) 0000-00-00

Over Simplifiying Debates (a bad thing) (weblinks)

Perils of Privatization (weblinks)

• NYT: Krugman: Prisons,... (446) 0000-00-00 Progressive economist, Dr. Paul Krugman, wrote in his New York Times opinion column of Thursday 12.06.22 about the degradation of prison life for prisoners and guards due to privatization worst cases in New Jersey, and the degradation of the meager rehabilitation services those prisons provide. He reasonably extends the recent negative findings of the NYT investigative reports of New Jersey's privatized prison system to all US states that use privatized prisons. My (jgw's) short conclusion is: when did we the people elect to have such destructive privatization of such public "services" so essential to society's general well being?
• OTM: The Privatization of... (481) 0000-00-00 The On The Media public radio show of December 28, 2012, featured this story that is, in effect, a story about the continued privatization of mass media in the USA. The 12.12.28 show most importantly discuses how television programming has moved from less and less free over-the-air TV to increasingly expensive cable TV and lately more so to expensive (and audience member isolating) Internet streamed versions of films and TV programs. This roughly 30 minutes English audio show is an updated version of a program that OTM originally broadcast in May, 2012. The show topics include how the television industry is coping with changing consumer habits and by implication (not otherwise pointed out) of the effects of the increasing privatization and monetization of television programs delivered via digital cable tv providers, and over the Internet as low-HD and high-HD tv streams from for-a-fee providers like NetFlix and Hulu. The show also considers the future of the communal viewing experience which is nearly nill as of the end of 2012 except for live sports events carried on ESPN cable tv, and reality TV's problem with faking the "reality" it presents. Progressive issues: (1) can progressives "take back" and re-cast as free programming public interest television programs (like news and commentary, educational programming) now co-opted and monetized by cable TV and Internet stream providers? (2) Can progressives take back "quality programs" that used to be rare on over-the-air TV, have them be more widely accessible via the "new media" of cable and the Internet, but also have them available such that more and more of that "quality programming" becomes available "to the masses, especially the poor" for free or at a very very low-cost? The USA legal system as-it-is is against us...

Potential N.Am GP Celeb Donors (weblinks)

• Shape: 25 Sexiest Vegan &... (1010) 0000-00-00 Shape.com web published this list about June or July 2013. If the celebs identified are vegan or vegetarian, perhaps there are other of the Green Party Ten Key Values they support and they would make a donation to the Green Party US or GPCA. Shape gives short 1 paragraph summaries of each celeb including if available when they became vegi and why.
• HuffPost: PETA's Sexiest... (578) 0000-00-00 The Huffington Post web published this list from the PETA web site June 27, 2013. If the celebs identified are vegan or vegetarian, perhaps there are other of the Green Party Ten Key Values they support and they would make a donation to the Green Party US or GPCA.
• HuffPost: Celebrity Vegans... (477) 0000-00-00 Use these to confirm who is or was began or vegetarian in 2012 and 2013+.
• HuffPost: Celebrity... (475) 0000-00-00 Use these to confirm who is or was vegetarian in 2012 and 2013+.

Poverty In America (weblinks)

• DN: S&W: 150 Million Now In... (733) 0000-00-00 PBS Talks show host Tavis Smiley and Progressive writer-professor Cornel West (S&W) appeared on Democracy Now Thursday 12.04.19. They discussed the much overlooked and under-reported status of "Poverty in America 2012" "Poverty in America" was the title of a once famous TV show aired on CBS in the early 1960s and a title not much used or referred to since Lyndon Johnson's all too brief "War on Poverty" Johnson started in the mid 60s but was soon "picked almost to death" by conservatives over subsequent decades. S&W give many of the essential "progressive talking points" about poverty, who cares and who does not care, and present a few of the "12 actions" they recommend as a new war on poverty in the last chapter of their new co-authored book "The Rich and the Rest of US." 30 minutes video stream plus transcript

Prison Watch Dogs (weblinks)

• The Solitary Watch web site (540) 0000-00-00 SolitaryWatch.com is a small operation with a web site. The founders monitor and report the conditions of prisoners in the USA who are in or have been in solitary confinement.

Privacy and Surveillance (weblinks)

• NYT: Increase in Govt... (409) 0000-00-00 The New York Times Sunday 12.07.09 edition reported a first-of-its-kind study that government police agencies have increased their requests for cell phone messages and location information to improve their surveillance efforts.
• RT: Obama gives himself... (433) 0000-00-00 Russia Today, RT.com, reported 12.07.06, that U.S. President Obama signed an Executive Order on that day giving himself and the US Government extraordinary rights to monitor all US communications. Like the USA's Voice of America tends to say about Russia, Iran, and other "foreign" countries with interests opposed to those of the USA, what Russia Today tends to say about the USA and the President needs to be taken "with many grains of salt." Much critical thinking needs to be applied to the statements of either source of "news." However, the accusation needs to be reality-checked, verified, if that is possible, and made part of the common public discourse.
• DN: Stanford Study Shows... (667) 0000-00-00 The Democracy Now broadcast of Wednesday 12.09.26 featured two law professors who talked about their recently published study conducted in Pakistan: "Living Under Drones: Death, Injury, and Trauma to Civilians from US Drone Practices in Pakistan." The study and the reasonably objective analysis of the study authors puts the lie to the notion, stated recently by President Obama, that Drone strikes are carefully managed, "kept on a short leash," and target only "known terrorists" who cannot be captured. Comparing the analysis to Obama's recent remarks also demonstrates that Obama's job is to appease, pacify and keep calm the general public while having the most limited control of the US Air Forces which conduct these surveillance missions and attacks. Further, the verbal contrast makes TRANSPARENT that the USA has never declared war on Pakistan, which is more than the civilian administration including Obama or the US military are willing to publicly acknowledge or discuss. And by implication that means the mad dogs of war from the George W. Bush administration are still in charge of US Wars abroad and war propaganda making "at home" in spite of Obama being the Commander in Chief.

Progressive Actions News (weblinks)

• MI: Howard Dean May Switch... (485) 0000-00-00 Media-ite (www.mediaite.com) reported Monday April 15, 2013 (13.04.15), Boston Marathon Bombing Day, that former Vermont governor and former candidate for the U.S. presidency, Howard Dean, may desert the Democrat party to become a Green if President Obama refuses to cut U.S. Dept. of Defense spending.
• LAP: Green Shadow Cabinet... (427) 0000-00-00 LAP, the LA Progressive online magazine (www.laprogressive.com) featured this article on Earth Day April 24, 2013 (13.04.24). David Cobb, at one time a candidate for the U.S. Presidency from the Green Party U.S., speaks eloquently and briefly on the core issues that describe our current anti-democratic, tyrannical, wage enslaving USA Plutocracy. It was not what "the U.S. Founding Fathers" and the original 13 States intended.

Progressive Books and Magazine Articles (weblinks)

• NYT: Krugman: John Galt,... (506) 0000-00-00 In his Friday 12.08.24 column in the New York Times, progressive economist Paul Krugman turned his expertise to an analysis of GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan and to the GOP's dependence on philosopher Ayn Rand's atheistic "Objectivism" secular religion to guide them to victory in the Nov. 6, 2012, General Election.
• Winner Take All Politics... (1084) 0000-00-00 This book is as critically important for the 2012 election as George Lakoff's "Don't Think of an Elephant" (mind tricks used to reframe political speech) was to the 2008 election. Amazon.com has the Kindle (or Kindle for PC/Mac) edition of "Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class." The book is by political scientists Paul Pierson (U.C. Berkeley professors) and Jacob S. Hacker (Yale), published Sept. 14, 2010. Progressive journalist 80-something Bill Moyer's recommended it as in effect a summary of Hillary Clinton's so-called "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" theory. The professors tell who started and how that conspiracy started in 1980, if not also in the 1970s, and has continued to this day resulting today, September 2011, in the greatest poverty and the greatest class differences in the USA since 1928. 1928 was one year before the stock market crash that began the Great Depression. The Great Depression lasted with only marginal economic improvements until World War II began in 1939. Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it, or let it repeat.
• AM: The Rise of the New... (468) 0000-00-00 The Atlantic Monthly magazine of January-February 2011 featured this article by Chrystia Freeland titled "The Rise of the New Global Elite." The caption for the article is "F. Scott Fitzgerald was right when he declared the rich different from you and me. But today€™s super-rich are also different from yesterday€™s: more hardworking and meritocratic, but less connected to the nations that granted them opportunity€”and the countrymen they are leaving ever further behind."
• NYT: Education Gap Grows... (487) 0000-00-00 In the Education section of the New York Times of Thursday, 12.02.09, reporter Sabrina Tavernise describes the growing gap in the USA between education access and quality for the rich and for the poor.

Progressive Issues (weblinks)

• NYT: Krugman: Healthcare's... (410) 0000-00-00 Economist Paul Krugman wrote in his Friday 12.06.29 column in the New York Times that the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling 6.28 in favor of "Obamacare," as the GOP derisively likes to call the Health Care Act of 2009, is a big win for more than the poorest of the poor in the USA.

Progressive Issues: Adapting to Climate Change (weblinks)

• KQED-TV: Thousands of... (793) 0000-00-00 KQED-TV, World digital tv channel (9.3 in San Francisco) aired Saturday 14.06.07 this 2012 program from the U. of Arizona titled: "Thousand Invisible Cords: Connecting Genes to Ecosystems." It is an excellent introduction in easily understood lay-person's language to this complex and profound new (20+ years old) line of research into a single organism's genetic influences on surrounding organisms and entire ecosystems, what more predictable land management issues and choices may be, and into discoveries of what genetic modifications may be necessary to ensure the survival of the "greater diversity of all life on Planet Earth" as Climate Change rapidly upsets "normal slower-motion evolution," creates more rapid extinction of species, and weakens the chances of survival of the fitter species including human beings and all the life we depend upon.
• The Thousand Invisible Cords... (748) 0000-00-00 The Thousand Invisible Cords web site features the 56 minute television, "Thousand Invisible Cords: Connecting Genes to Ecosystems," when and where it is being (or was) broadcast in the USA (mostly on public television as of mid 2014), what portions of the program are now available as video streams, and more information and educational resources related to the program's content.

Progressive Issues: Class Warfare (weblinks)

• NYT: The Angry (Entitled) Rich (587) 0000-00-00 Were you wondering what became of the vast right wing conspiracy (Hillary Clinton's term from the 1990s)? Economist Paul Krugman in his 10.09.20 column in the New York Times observes how the super rich are now much less shy since the global economic collapse of 2008 about boasting of their entitlement to be rich.
• NYT: Raise, Don't Save... (528) 0000-00-00 In the Op-Ed section of the 11.06.20 New York Times, pension attorney Thomas Geoghegan reviews the simple numbers. They say: raising social security, and a few taxes, is far wiser than is trying to "save" it as some radical right wingers claim they want to do. Mr. Geoghean is the author of the book: "Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be for Labor When It€™s Flat on Its Back."
• Michael Moore: August 5... (559) 0000-00-00 On 11.08.05 filmmaker Michael Moore posted this article on Facebook and on his personal web site. He believes the US Middle Class died (or began to die) on August 5, 1981. On that day 30 years ago, President Ronald Reagan declared the Air Traffic Controllers union illegal on day three of their nation wide strike and fired all the air traffic controllers.
• NYT: Krugman: US' Unlevel... (493) 0000-00-00 In his column in the Monday New York Times of 12.01.09 progressive economist Paul Krugman points out how the USA is the most class conscious and class biased developed country in the world.

Progressive Issues: Corrupt Journalism (weblinks)

• George Monbiot: The Media is... (402) 0000-00-00 On July 11, 2011, UK Guardian newspaper published journalist George Monbiot's succinct and profound criticism of his profession. These remarks were largely in response to the discovery that people working for international media mogul Rupert Murdoch allegedly hacked the cell phones of celebrities and government officials in the UK in order to gather sensational news for his papers. Monbiot's very interesting recommendation is to establish a (universal) Hippocratic oath for journalists such as exists for physicians. See the link to his first draft of that oath on this web site.
• MN: George Monbiot's... (832) 0000-00-00 MatadorNetwork.com has this summary of the Hippocratic oath for journalists proposed by UK journalist George Monbiot 11.07.11. As of 11.08.05 the actual complete hippocratic oath text does not exist. Monbiot's web site, www.monbiot.com has his very rough first drafted of an oath. He requests interested others to improve upon it.
• George Manbiot's Ideas for a... (538) 0000-00-00 On 11.07.11 journalist George Monbiot wrote this short essay calling for a (universal) Hippocratic Oath for Journalists. It was first published in the UK's Guardian newspaper. The second half of the essay contains his very rough first draft of an oath. He concludes by requesting interested others to improve upon it.

Progressive Issues: Corrupting Corporations (weblinks)

• NYT: Facebook is Using You (471) 0000-00-00 In the Saturday New York Times, 12.01.04, writer Lori Andrews describes how Facebook is using us all to make money, potentially billions of dollars. The only thing Facebook has to sell is our personal data, our interests and ideas, and advertising. All our information we give them for free. All their targeted ads we are forced to watch on their web pages. We have no opt-in or opt-out option regarding which ads will be on which Facebook web pages we chose to use.

Progressive Issues: Equitable Economics (weblinks)

• NYT: Dearth of Prosecutions... (633) 0000-00-00 The New York Times of 11.04.14 reports that since the financial crisis of 2008 there have been very few prosecutions of the criminals who made the crisis happen.
• NYT: America Needs Higher... (494) 0000-00-00 In the New York Times of 11.04.13, commentator Nicholas Kristof insists America needs higher taxes.
• WH.gov: Pres. Obama about... (506) 0000-00-00 Not one for taking a stand 2009 through March 2011, President Obama may be finally drawing a "line in the sand" about the 2011-2012 budget and how we as a nation ought to deal with the huge national deficit. Let's face it, if the US returned to Clinton-era tax rates, the super-rich would be paying about $32 billion per year in new taxes!
• DN: Obama vs. GOP's Paul Ryan (469) 0000-00-00 Democracy Now of 11.04.14 featured several discussions about US President Obama's speech on Wed. 11.04.13. The 43 minutes speech available at www.whitehouse.gov was in response to the speech 04.13 of the GOP's Paul Ryan, the lead representative in the House who is promoting more tax cuts to reduce the national deficit. In short: Obama called Paul Ryan a lier. And for the record: the national deficit indisputably was created primarily by Republicans in the last 30 years generally and more dramatically so during the W. Bush years, 2000-2008.
• DN: Roundtable on Obama vs.... (490) 0000-00-00 On the Democracy Now program of 11.04.14, DN hosts held a round table discussion between progressives writer Thomas Frank, activist-writer Dr. Grace Lee Boggs and conservative evangelist and writer, federal safety net proponent, Rev. Jim Wallis. Interestingly Rev. Wallis calls GOP spokesperson Representative Paul Ryan a bully and explains why. In short: the 30 years long, GOP-generated, smoke and mirrors word-twisting propaganda game to deceive and confuse, trick and trap the American public and many less intelligent legislators may be crumbling.
• WikiPedia: Neoliberalism (524) 0000-00-00 The WikiPedia article cited here defines and explains "Neoliberalism", an increasingly popular if still obscure progressive anti-free-market term. It is an excellent place to start reading about the forces and emerging counter-forces existing at the highest level of global developed countries which influence all our lives. Reading just this article might take a few minutes up to, say, 30 minutes. But it is more informative to follow (click on) some of the links within the article to other closely related other WikiPedia articles. Follow similar links in the other articles to their linked-to articles as well. Reading and well understanding all of the material related to this article could take 1-2 days! But the writing is at the high school senior or early college level, and is a probably fairly easy read. The resulting "tree" of articles seems to give a very good better educated lay person's picture (i.e. explanations without many technical terms) to what is going on today politically and economically and how we got to this state nationally and internationally since the 1980s.
• Progressive Economist... (436) 0000-00-00 Progressive Economist Dr. Michael Hudson, professor at U. Missouri in Kansas City, cuts through the common place mis-perceptions and mis-leading propaganda about contemporary US economic issues.
• NYT: Krugman: Gov. Rick... (505) 0000-00-00 Texas governor Rick Perry, a fundamentalist, announced on Saturday 11.08.13 that he will run for the GOP Presidential Nomination in 2012. Princeton Economics professor and New York Times columnist wrote 11.08.15 that Perry and the Texas economy have little to be proud of.

Progressive Issues: Finance Reform (weblinks)

• NYT: Need for Finance Reform... (562) 0000-00-00 NYT 10.04.16: Four (4) short expert opinions about Finance Reform.

Progressive Issues: Introduced in Media (weblinks)

• Video: How Much Is Your Dead... (483) 0000-00-00 The BBC/Horizon documentary available as a video stream from www.ivi.co.za (IVI New Zealand). BBC Horizon produced this remarkable documentary about the corruption taking place in harvesting body parts from the deceased... with no compensation given to the estate or survivors of the deceased. Yet if all possible body parts were harvested from a dead body, they would sell for $250,000 within the world-wide medical body parts market place.
• Video: How Much is your Dead... (561) 0000-00-00 The BBC/Horizon documentary available as a video stream from FreeFilmsOnline.WordPress.com. BBC Horizon produced this remarkable documentary about the corruption taking place in harvesting body parts from the deceased... with no compensation given to the estate or survivors of the deceased. Yet if all possible body parts were harvested from a dead body, they would sell for $250,000 within the world-wide medical body parts market place.

Progressive Issues: Military-Education Complex (weblinks)

• PBS: Rice & Klein: "Better"... (687) 0000-00-00 In a 9:41 minutes interview -- with transcript -- aired on the PBS Newshour program of Tuesday 12.03.20, reporter Jeffrey Brown interviews former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rica and former New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein about their new report that links public education and national security. The scary part of the interview and their report (for me, JGW) is that they would have public schools become more like military schools and academies, with all the increased mandatory personal discipline, rigid obedience and greater conformity (and perhaps reduced creativity) of the students and faculty that implies. Yet the radical right wing Republicans of which Rice is certainly one, have in effect all but completely destroyed public education in the USA in the last 30 years. But now these two spokespersons for that radical right wing, Rice smiling broadly and talking "sweetly," want to "save" public education with their "national security enhancing" changes to a privatized public education system increasingly available only to the richest students.
• BM&C: What it is like to go... (2436) 0000-00-00 The "Bill Moyers and Company" Friday 12.07.27 broadcast on the USA Public Broadcasting System (PBS) featured Karl Marlantes, veteran of the Viet Nam war who has been struggling with post traumatic stress disorder ever since he survived that war. He needs to take psychiatric medications regularly so he doesn't "freak out" at home or among "civilians" in public and try to damage other people or things before his "right mind" returns to dominate his behavior. He's written several books about going to war. His interview with Bill Moyers possibly provides the most poignant and raw insight there has been on US television in decades into the mind of a former warrior, killer of 20+ men, who still can't quite put the killer animal "back in the box" and who knows that no "civilians" will ever understand. If you are "anti-war," this interview will tell you why most former warriors are as well and why you can't talk with most of them. If you want an insight into how "the military" trains mostly very young men to be killers, and how society supports the war machine decade after decade, you will not "like" this interview, but you will learn a great deal.

Progressive Issues: Military-Entertainment Complex (weblinks)

Progressive Issues: Military-Industrial Complex (weblinks)

• WP: New Counterterrorism... (406) 0000-00-00 The Washington Post reported Thursday 12.03.22 that the Obama administration has authorized national security agencies, a.k.a. counter-terrorism officials, to keep information they have gathered on U.S. citizens up to five years even if there is no probably cause or suspicious behavior justifying their doing so.
• Wired: NSA's Biggest Data... (399) 0000-00-00 Wired Magazine of 12.03.15 published James Bamford's article "The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)." The copied and stored email, phone, audio and video from the USA and the rest of the world will be stored in the Bluffdale, Utah, data center outside Salt Lake City and processed there to reveal "patterns" and trends that suggest "suspicious" activities that "might threaten US (government) interests."
• The Defense Industry... (515) 0000-00-00
• The Defense International... (710) 0000-00-00
• Wikipedia: The Arms Industry... (431) 0000-00-00
• WP: Obama's NDAA Signing... (500) 0000-00-00 When Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act on 11.12.31, he also issued a "Signing Statement" explaining his actions. The Washington Post has this PDF copy of his NDAA Signing Statement.
• Reuters: Obama Announces... (448) 0000-00-00 Reuters new service reported late Wednesday 12.01.04 that President Obama will announce cuts of tens of thousands of military ground troops on Thursday 12.01.05. However the use of and improvements to missiles, aircraft including drones and ships at sea will continue. Apparently he will say nothing about the use of discharged military who work as independent contractors for private security firms hired by the various US military services and top government agencies at costs higher than those for deploying active duty military personnel.
• NYT: Admiral Wants Freer... (419) 0000-00-00 The lead story in the Monday 12.02.13 New York Times is this one about Admiral McRaven, who leads the Special Forces Command. He wants "a freer hand" to deploy his Special Forces anywhere in the world, apparently with much less WhiteHouse or direct Presidential orders to do so. If Obama has been acting like the lap dog of the Military vis-a-vie Iraq and Afghanistan, the 700+ US military bases world-wide, the Big Corporations, the super-rich and their legions of lobbyists, perhaps the Admiral is a member of the pack of military leaders who somehow force Obama to do so. Perhaps the military pack are too used to having a President who is a rubber stamp for their plans. If that is true, then "civilian rule" of the military is a Constitutional thing of the past, and we the people have more than a slow motion economic coup d'etat on our hands.

Progressive Issues: National+State Health Care (weblinks)

• NYT: Krugman: Hurray for... (451) 0000-00-00 Progressive economist Paul Krugman writes in his Monday 12.03.19 column in the New York Times that "Obama Health Care" reform is a very good thing, if also a thing still to be very slow in coming to those who need it most. He outlines how he thinks the 2012 GOP-Dem campaign battles about public-private health care will likely develop.
• Robert Reich on HCR 10.03.21 (430) 0000-00-00 Dr. Robert Reich, former Sec. of Labor in the Clinton administration, offers passifying comments in support of the Health Care Reform (HCR) bill passed by Congress in March 2010. He is one of 15 expert commentators (3+ progressives) in the NYT 10.03.21 article on the Health Care Reform.
• Jesse Jackson on HCR 10.03.21 (418) 0000-00-00 Rev Jesse Jackson offers his short comments pro and con about the Health Care Reform (HCR) bill passed by Congress in March 2010. He is one of 15 expert commentators (3+ progressives) in the NYT 10.03.21 article on the Health Care Reform.
• Ralph Nader on HCR 10.03.21 (449) 0000-00-00 Ralph Nader, attorney and long-time consumer advocate, offers his short, very critical comments about the Health Care Reform (HCR) bill passed by Congress in March 2010. He is one of 15 expert commentators (3+ progressives) in the NYT 10.03.21 article on the Health Care Reform.
• State Single-Payer News (828) 0000-00-00 The Physicians for a National Health Program web site, www.pnhp.org, has a "State Single-Payer News" section which monitors US States which have adopted or are adopting their own single payer health plans to give higher quality affordable health care to all state citizens.
• The California Endowment (413) 0000-00-00 In the last year of GOP Arnold Schwarznegger's governorship, California passed a new health care law and the governor signed it into law. The California Endowment, who's spokesperson is TV personality and MD, Dr. Mehmet Oz, has more information about the new California law and its implications. With 3rd term Governor Jerry Brown, California soon may legislate and put in place Single Payer Health Care for all. See also Physicians for a National Health Plan (www.pnhp.org).
• NYT: Huge Profits of Private... (446) 0000-00-00 The New York Times of 11.05.14 reported that the private health care insurance industry has been making huge profits in recent months as more people avoid getting the health care they need.
• NYT: The Value of MediCaid... (439) 0000-00-00 The New York Times opinion pages of 11.07.18 had this column about the clear advantages of providing MediCaid health care benefits to the poor in Oregon.
• Reuters: Phantom Firms Bilk... (560) 0000-00-00 Reuters news service reported Wednesday 11.12.28 their latest study confirming that phantom (non existent) firms are sending phoney medical bills to Medicare and Medicare has been paying them.
• PBS: 2010-2011 Increase in... (409) 0000-00-00 The PBS News Hour program of Tuesday 11.09.27 presented this segment reporting that US employer-paid private health insurance premiums have increased 9% in the last year. The segment discusses why that has happened and some of the implications. To this reader-viewer their analysis seems superficial. The "gist" of the story boils down to the mass media cliche, "Ain't It Awful", with no mention of possible action statements. Isn't that reinforcing learned helplessness?
• NYT: Private Health Insurers... (403) 0000-00-00 The New York Times of Wednesday 11.09.28 reported in some detail and political context the recent Kaiser report that found private insurance companies raised employer-paid insurance premiums by 9% in the last year, and they want more. The insurers blame their higher premium prices on skyrocketing (run-away?) costs of medicine, tests, treatments, medical equipment, etc. Do those insurers own any of those medical suppliers?

Progressive Issues: Religion + Politics (weblinks)

• Religion Dispatches web site (417) 0000-00-00 The Religion Dispatches web site is a progressive watch dog of religious influences in politics world-wide.
• DN: Sarah Posner analyzes... (504) 0000-00-00 In the first interview of the 11.08.15 Democracy Now news broadcast, Sarah Posner, senior editor of the "Religion Displatches" web site, analyzed GOP Presidential Primary Candidate Michele Bachmann's win in the Iowa Straw Poll of 11.08.13. Bachmann is a graduate of Oral Roberts University (now a part of Pat Robertson's multi-campus Regent University).
• Network of Spiritual... (385) 0000-00-00 Many atheist, agnostic, eclectic and semi-religious progressives may want to ignore the religious right in the USA and ignore their very well funded attempts to make the US a Christian Theocracy. However, some religious (and just very thoughtful, moral) progressives have been offering their counter-arguments to the very conservative interpretations of the religious right's exclusively biblical proclamations. The NSP, founded by Rabbi Michael Lerner in the last 1990s, attempts to collect and present the sum of the inter-faith (and progressively moral a-religious) points of view.

Progressive Issues: Renewable Energy (weblinks)

• Video: Discovery Channel:... (664) 0000-00-00 The Discovery Channel (USA cable TV) presented their new science documentary, "Powering the Future" in their premiere of Monday 07/19/10. Here it is a 40+ minute video stream with commercials. The documentary is lay person's language just barely outlining the science involved Ths show features Discovery's few selected scientists and their projects which reflect the "better brave new world" of genetic and biological engineering where the science is focused on renewable energy creation of-a-kind so that we human beings can have and continue to consume all the energy we want, and all our transportation and information toys, in the US and EU and afew Asean countries' life-styles to which we have become accustomed. But seriously folks, in some cases they want to create existing similar energy sources more directly from the sun without the pesky energy losses of going through a food chain and waiting for geologic time to make new fossil fuels. See also 'lectures on renewable energy' on www.uctv.tv which has a bit more science but not necessarily "the hard stuff".
• SFGate: Study: Alt-energy... (502) 0000-00-00 The online San Francisco Chronicle newspaper of 10.11.11 (SFGate.com), reports a new study which reveals that several types of sustainable alternative energy firms could be competitive on price with non-sustainable energy producing firms in just a few more years.
• BBC: Obama's New Energy Policy (518) 0000-00-00 President Obama made a speech about his new (or revised) energy policy at Georgetown University on Wednesday, 11.03.30. An issue framing device he used was that: "We cannot keep going from shock to trance on the issue of energy security, rushing to propose action when gas prices rise, then hitting the snooze button when they fall again." Going from Shock to Trance, back and forth. This could be a good metaphor with which Greens can present more progressive Green ideas to our members and to the general public. And it might get more of us off the "Obama bashing kick" we've been on and move him and the Democrats further to the left while we gain more supporters for Green policies, politics and candidates.
• NYT: Atomic Forensics (520) 0000-00-00 The New York Times of 11.04.02 reports not well publicized industry studies that better predict the results of meltdowns at nuclear power plants like those in Fukusihma, Japan.
• NYT: Natural Gas Wells Leak... (465) 0000-00-00 Since about 2009 would-be natural gas producers have touted the apparently unlimited of natural gas in the ground under the United States. Not so much talked about is the fact that it takes more natural gas to get the same power and mileage for an internal combustion engine. Now there is another proven big problem. The New York Times of 11.04.11 reports that natural gas wells can leak very environmentally damaging methane gas. Methane gas remains in the high atmosphere destroying ozone 20 or more times longer than does CO2. The NYT describes an example problem well in Colorado.
• Planet Forward: promoting... (451) 0000-00-00 Planet Forward has had at least since April 2011 weekly reports on the 30 minutes long Public Television Program "Market Place". They also produced an hour long documentary aired on San Francisco's KQED public television 11.04.12. (See program #201: Energy Innovations on the PF web site or the separate link on this web site to the program on the PBS.org site.) The documentary (or infomercial, if you prefer) summarizes a number of "promising" sustainable energy research projects and business development activities. This information is pro-business, pro-investment, and pro-feel-good news for the general public. Positive and negative commentary and criticism needs to be created or found and added to this and other sites concerned about everything Planet Forward promotes comparing these and other projects to what can be more progressive sustainable energy projects.
• PF: Fossil Fuels & Beyond (466) 0000-00-00 This link is to the Plant Forward one hour program "Fossil Fuels and Beyond". The somewhat sensationalistic 7th grade level panel discussion has some useful information.
• PF: Energy Innovations (465) 0000-00-00 This link is to the Plant Forward one hour program #201: "Energy Innovations". The program aired on San Francisco's KQED-TV public television station "channel 9" on 11.04.12 from 11-12 p.m. The documentary (or infomercial, if you prefer) summarizes a number of "promising" sustainable energy research projects and business development activities. This information is pro-business, pro-investment, and pro-feel-good news for the general public. Positive and negative commentary and criticism needs to be created or found and added to this and other sites concerned about everything Planet Forward promotes comparing these and other projects to what can be more progressive sustainable energy projects.

Progressive Thought Leaders (weblinks)

• Ralph Nader Interview... (415) 0000-00-00 You are going to love this 18 minutes 30 seconds interview taped in 2009 with Ralph Nader at Westfield State University in Connecticut. No big shot national media reporter is asking the questions. Rather the college president and former "Nader Raider" asks all the right ones. The program starts with Nader talking about his career, but quickly changes to summarizing our dire conditions in 2009 that apply equally well to our years up to and through 2013. And Nader provides many general solutions. Please remember while watching that Barack Obama got elected President in Nov. 2008, sworn into office in January 2009 and shortly thereafter approved the W. Bush mandated nearly one trillion dollar bailout of Wall Street and the Banks To Big To Fail in 2009. Also please ask yourself how far have we come since 2009 and why? What actions mentioned in Nader's remarks could we have done better or be doing better?
• AR: Revoking Corporate... (466) 0000-00-00 Alternative Radio (AR): Revoking Corporate Charters. Speaker: Richard Grossman Richard Grossman, co-founder of the Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy, is an independent researcher and writer focusing on governance, law, corporations, and organizing strategies. AR Program #GROR002. Recorded in Boulder, CO on February 13, 1997. Corporations, Corporations. From Exxon Mobil to Wal-Mart they dominate society and politics. Over the last 100 years corporations have accrued enormous economic power and legal standing. A corporation is licensed to do business. These licenses are called charters. In theory, when a corporation violates its charter, it can be revoked. That used to happen but not any more. And now corporate power has gotten a big boost. On Jan. 21, 2010, the Supreme Court, in Citizen's United v. Federal Election Commission, ruled that there are no limitations on campaign contributions by both domestic and foreign corporations. Noam Chomsky calls the decision "a dark day in the history of U.S. democracy, and its decline." The ruling, "The New York Times," says "strikes at the heart of democracy" by having "paved the way for corporations to use their vast treasuries to overwhelm elections."
• Wiki: Christopher Lynn Hedges (406) 0000-00-00 Journalist, author, writer, public speaker. A "journalist, author, and war correspondent, specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies.[1] His most recent book is The World As It Is (2011)" Progressive revolutionary and probably a liberation theologian. BA English, Colgate Univ., M.Div Harvard Divinity School. DOB: Sept. 18, 1956.
• Wiki: Noam Chomsky (435) 0000-00-00 Prolific progressive author, 'devout' anarchist and libertarian socialist who for decades has lucidly and repeatedly shone a bright light on the collusion of the Democrat-Republican 'duopoly' that controls the USA and it's policies. He is possibly the foremost progressive intellectual in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He is a "(US) American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years. Chomsky has been described as the 'father of modern linguistics' and a major figure of analytic philosophy. His (academic) work has influenced fields such as computer science, mathematics, and psychology." DOB: Dec. 7, 1928
• Wiki: Cornel West (503) 0000-00-00 Cornel West is a "(US) American philosopher, author, critic, actor, civil rights activist and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America. West is the Class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton University, where he teaches in the Center for African American Studies and in the Department of Religion. West is known for his combination of political and moral insight and criticism and his contribution to the post-1960s civil rights movement. The bulk of his work focuses on the role of race, gender, and class in American society and the means by which people act and react to their "radical conditionedness." West draws intellectual contributions from such diverse traditions as the African American Baptist Church, pragmatism and transcendentalism." DOB: June 2, 1953.
• CSPAN: Ralph Nader on... (661) 0000-00-00 Ralph Nader was interviewed and answered call-in questions on CSPAN's Washington Journal Sunday morning show 12.01.08. Nader has been a long-time successful progressive consumer activist, 3 time independent candidate for U.S. President, and 1 time official Green Party candidate for President.
• WP: Ralph Nader calls for... (624) 0000-00-00 In the Washington Post of Saturday 11.09.17, long-time consumer advocate Ralph Nader calls for progressive candidates to come forward and join the "liberal-progressive" run for the Democratic nomination of for President in 2012. Progressive activist professor Cornel West agrees. In principle they ought to be included in any nationally televised Democratic candidates debates until the Democratic convention.

Project Planning and Management (weblinks)

• Project Management for... (581) 0000-00-00 Amazon.com's table of contents for the "Project Management for Dummies, 3rd edition" paperback and Kindle digital book. Author: Stanley E. Portney, May 3, 2010, Wiley Publishing, Inc.
• Software Project Management... (542) 0000-00-00 Amazon.com's table of contents for the "Software Project Management for Dummies" paperback and Kindle digital book. Authors: Teresa Lucky and Joseph Phillips, 2009, Dummies.com Publishing.
• Communicating Design:... (516) 0000-00-00 Creating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning (2nd edition), Dan Brown, 2011, New Riders publishing, Berkeley. Paperback and Kindle eBook.
• Understanding CiviCRM (541) 0000-00-00 Amazon.com's "Understanding CiviCRM", Joseph Murry and Brian P. Shaughnessy, 2011 Packt Publishing. Caption 1: "Community Experience Distilled." Caption 2: "Develop and Implement a Fully Functional, Systematic Contact & Constituents Relationships Management (CRM) Plan for Your Organization Using the CiviCRM (web system)." View the table of contents and selected content in the book online at this site. The book is available in paperback and Kindle formats.

Prop 14-Will GPCA Exist After 2014? (weblinks)

Protest Information (weblinks)

• The Occupy Wall Street web... (581) 0000-00-00 Why focus only on Wall Street, NYC or San Francisco's Pacific Stock Exchange? Surely there are casino-running Banks and Hedge Funds Headquarters that need reminding of their mis-deeds. What about the worst of the Lier Loan operators and the Mortgage No-Refinancing operators.
• The MoveOn.org web site (484) 0000-00-00
• The ActUp.org web site (520) 0000-00-00
• The FoodNotBombs.org web site (441) 0000-00-00

Real Respectful Debates Replayed (weblinks)

• The Intelligence Squared US... (392) 0000-00-00 This site provides downloadable IQ2 US pod casts that are 1 hour edited versions of the longer programs. The longer unedited audio programs are available on the NPR.org site, the IQ2 US section of the site. Intelligence Squared US, or IQ2 US, is a spin-off of the original Intelligence Squared radio and TV program available in the United Kingdom where the program was first created. IQ2 US presents "Oxford style" debates. Those debates are well-formed, disciplined and rely on mutual respect to be displayed by all participants at all times. The results are much less emotional or emotionally provocative and often much easier to understand by those not educated or experienced with the issues under debate! Oxford is one of the two most famous universities in the the Britain, also known as the United Kingdom (UK), the second being Cambridge. Both are several centuries old. Outside of France both may have been the best universities at which to study for centuries for the children of the well-to-do in the western countries of Europe and Scandinavia, the British Isles, and for the children of the rich in the more recently founded USA.
• The Intelligence Squared AU... (387) 0000-00-00 This site provides links to video streams of recorded live debates conducted in English in Australia on topics of most interest to Australians. No English transcripts are provided on the site. Intelligence Squared AU (Australia), or IQ2 AU (IQ2oz.com), is one of the spin-off programs from the original Intelligence Squared radio program created and broadcast in The United Kingdom (UK). The UK is the founding country of the British Commonwealth of nations which the UK created several centuries ago. IQ2 AU is a British Commonwealth nation and is included on this web site as another instance of English language debates that may be of interest to the Green Party US and the US state Green Parties. Canada apparently does not yet have an IQ2 program for Canadians, possibly because any debate would have to be in both English and French. Oxford is one of the two most famous universities in Britain, also known as the United Kingdom (UK), the second being Cambridge. Both are several centuries old. Both may have been the best universities at which to study for centuries for the children of the well-to-do in the western countries of Europe and Scandinavia, the British Isles, and for the children of the rich in Australia and the same in the more recently founded USA.
• NPR: Intelligence Squared US... (572) 0000-00-00 This link goes to the IQ2 section of the NPR.org site. That section of the NPR site provides unedited audio programs of 1 to 1.5 hours long IQ2 US debate programs, all of which are conducted in English. See the separate IQ2 US site web link to download 1 hour long English pod casts of the edited programs. There are English text short biographies of the debate participants for each audio program. But NPR does NOT provide an English transcripts of the IQ2 US audio programs available from their web site. Intelligence Squared US, or IQ2 US, is a spin-off of the original Intelligence Squared radio program created and broadcast in the United Kingdom (UK or Britain). IQ2 UK and the newer IQ2 US present "Oxford style" debates. Those debates are well-formed, disciplined and reply on mutual respect to be displayed at all times. The results are much less emotional or emotionally provocative and often much easier to understand by those not educated or experienced with the issues under debate! Oxford is one of the two most famous universities in the UK, the second being Cambridge. Both are several centuries old. Both may have been the best universities at which to study for centuries for the children of the well-to-do in the western countries of Europe and Scandinavia, the British Isles, and for the children of the rich in the new-founded USA.
• The Intelligence Squared UK... (370) 0000-00-00 The IntelligenceSquared.com web site is the original site in the United Kingdom (UK) for the IQ2 debate program broadcast on the UK's public radio and TV network. The site features links to all the "spun-off" IQ2 programs that now exist in five (5) countries of the world: the UK, the USA (US), Australia (AU), the Ukraine, and Greece. The IQ2 debates are called "Oxford style" debates. Those debates are well-formed, disciplined and rely on mutual respect to be displayed by all participants at all times. The results are much less emotional or emotionally provocative and often much easier to understand by those not educated or experienced with the issues under debate! Oxford is one of the two most famous universities in the UK, the second being Cambridge. Both are several centuries old. Both may have been the best universities at which to study for centuries for the children of the well-to-do in the western countries of Europe and Scandinavia, the British Isles, and for the children of the rich in Australia and the same class in the more recently founded USA. IQ2 debates are called "Oxford style" debates.

Reflections on Establishment News Coverage (weblinks)

• The NYT Reflects on Occupy... (428) 0000-00-00 The New York Times of Monday 11.11.21 presented much over due reflection of the news coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Reframing (weblinks)

Reframing Issues and Arguments (weblinks)

• AB: Who is a Progressive,... (706) 0000-00-00 AmericaBlog.com (AB) published this insightful article in December 2013 comparing "liberalism" to "progressivism," labels the US news media mis-uses consistently. Greens ought to at least be able to correct others when they do the same!
• Joint Reframing in... (438) 0000-00-00
• Reframing and NLP Simply... (2344) 0000-00-00 This seems to be a cheery apolitical, improve your life, definition of reframing and neural linguistic (self) programming, but useful to reinforce the principles used in both overlapping techniques.
• NYT: Krugman: All the GOP's... (478) 0000-00-00 In his Friday 11.12.09 column in the New York Times, economist Paul Krugman shares his observations of the current public relations hypocrisies of the GOP and Wall Street job killer fat cats in general, but also of candidate Mitt Romney in particular.
• NYT: The Ways of Silencing... (485) 0000-00-00 In the "Stone" philosophy section of the New York Times of 11.06.25, writer Jason Stanley summarizes the ways malicious debaters -- intent on dominating debates -- silence an opposing party's political speech.
• MSNBC-RM: GOP shameless,... (434) 0000-00-00 On MSNBC's Rachael Maddow show of Monday 11.06.27, the opening segment threw so many factual contradictions about the GOP's policy positions of recent weeks, months and that last two years, it is surprising GOP leaders will still stand in front of a camera and spew the same ol' same ol' nonsense. But they do...
• ESRA: the Environmental and... (463) 0000-00-00 The Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP), at spiritualprogressives.org, founded by reform Rabbi Michael Lerner of Berkeley, proposed in 2010 a progressive amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It is called the Environmental and Social Responsibility amendment or ESRA. In this writer's opinion, the years of effort required to pass an ESRA could be a great waste of time and money, detracting from the energies needed to make successful more short-term progressive goals. However in the current 2011-2012 political climate dominated by zealous ideological, radical right wing, free marketeer libertarians who trumpet the need for a Balanced Budget amendment to the constitution (and the news media that love them), the ESRA provides progressives at least with compelling talking points and an alternative amendment to throw back in the strident conservatives' faces, so over-eager to amend the U.S. constitution. I.e. talking about ESRA if/when a Balanced Budget amendment comes up in a pubic discussion, could move that discussion (1) dramatically from the ridiculous to the compassionate and (2) firmly from the deceptive rhetoric of the right to crystal clear, humanistic rhetoric of the left. Point and better counter-points. Mentioning the ESRA could be a way for progressive debaters in any forum to gently but firmly take control of debates that unethical right wingers try manipulate with linguistic tricks to favor irrational, destructive, and insidiously re-framed right wing concepts that seem oddly attractive and undebatable.
• DN: Ex Evangelical Calls... (473) 0000-00-00 Ex conservative evangelical, Frank Schaffer, appearing on Democracy Now 11.08.17 denounced GOP candidate for the Presidential Nomination, Michelle Bachmann, and described how Conservative Reconstructionism ("bring back the good old bible-thumping days") is really anti-American. He also says such efforts by Bachmann and others try to hide a subversive desire to make the USA into a theocracy like Iran became after the radical Islamist Ayatollah Khomeini and his followers took over that country over a decade ago.

Reframing: Centrist Rhetoric for Progressives to Reframe (weblinks)

• MJ: Democrat Platform... (510) 0000-00-00 Mother Jones magazine of Tuesday 12.09.04, Democrat National Convention day one, web published this comparison of how the Democrats in-charge have retreated greatly in their 2012 platform from what they so heartily endorsed in 2008.
• WH: Obama's Remarks at... (760) 0000-00-00 President Obama made these remarks before an audience of (probably mostly white) employees and management at Johnson Controls, Holland, Michigan on 11.08.11.
• Obama's 11.08.12 web page... (638) 0000-00-00 The Obama campaign for the 2012 election seems to think that what the GOP candidates say in their debates and news interviews is what most or all Americans think now and will still be thinking by November 2012 election day.
• NYT: Warren Buffett: Tax the... (592) 0000-00-00 Billionaire Warren Buffett wrote in the Sunday New York Times of 11.08.14 that the US should no long "coddle the super-rich" but tax them more.
• CR: Warren Buffett: Tax the... (525) 0000-00-00 Billionaire Warren Buffett appeared on the 11.08.15 Charlie Rose public television show and presented his liberal views about taxing the super-rich. 60 minutes.
• PBS: Paul Solman: Europe's... (988) 0000-00-00 On the PBS News Hour program of Monday 11.08.15, economics reporter Paul Solman interviewed former IMF chief Dr. Simon Johnson at the MIT Peterson Institute. They talked about the inability of the Euro-based Economic Union to manage the financial "mis-deeds" of it's member nations to create a more robust and consistent recovery. Some in Europe propose the creation of a new "financial committee" to regulate all financial matters within the EU. EU member states might supply experts to the committee who would serve for a 2.5 year term. The committee would have greater authority and power than does the EU Parliament.
• PBS: Inequality in America:... (570) 0000-00-00 Transcript of Paul Solman's PBS segment for the PBS News Hour program of Wednesday 11.08.17, the 2nd in a series of 4 segments on Inequality in America.
• PBS: Inequality in America:... (558) 0000-00-00 PBS Economics reporter Paul Solman produced this 10 minute video for the Wednesday 11.08.17 PBS News Hour program, the 2nd in a series of 4 segments on Inequality in America.
• PBS: Inequality in America:... (553) 0000-00-00 PBS Economics reporter Paul Solman produced this 12 minute video for the PBS New Hours program of Tuesday 11.08.16, the 1st in a series of 4 reports on Inequality in America.
• PBS: Inequality in America:... (1045) 0000-00-00 This is the transcript from 10 minute video for the Thursday 11.08.18 PBS News Hour program, the 3rd in a series of 4 segments on Inequality in America, produced by PBS Economist reporter Paul Solmon.
• PBS: Inequality in America:... (582) 0000-00-00 On the PBS New Hour show of Thursday 11.08.18, host Judy Woodruff interviewed Patrick McCarthy, President of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. They discuss the new Casey Foundation report showing an 18% rise in the level of poverty among U.S. children from 2000 through 2009. This is the 4th in a series of 4 segments on Inequality in America.
• NYT: Krugman: (Social)... (412) 0000-00-00 Economist Paul Krugman shares his opinion in his Monday April 8, 2013 column in the New York Times that President Obama is playing rhetorical games with the Congress, his Democratic base, the Republicans, and us Progressives as well about what he will and will not support for changes in Social Security.

Reframing: Conservative Rhetoric for Progressives to Reframe (weblinks)

• NYT: Krugman: The Gullible... (498) 0000-00-00 In his Monday 12.04.09 column in the New York Times, progressive economist Paul Krugman focuses very critically on the highly deceptive reframing of public discourse about budget issues evident in the GOP rhetoric supporting the recently released 10 year budget from the GOP-dominated House Budget Committee. The budget's lead author, Congressman Paul Ryan, has produced an otherwise typically horrific, enrich-the-richest, punish-the-poor-more, extreme right budget proposal for 2013 through 2023. Meanwhile the extreme right supporters of this budget cry out in alarm at President Obama's more genuinely centrist and humanitarian objections to this budget.
• NYT: J.Burns: Ayn Rand Would... (613) 0000-00-00 In her New York Times Op-Ed essay published 12.08.15, Stanford professor Jennifer Burns points out the many ways Ayn Rand herself would not have approved of GOP VP Candidate Paul Ryan's advocacy of a 'perverse' version of Rand's severe libertarian self-righteous to-hell-with-others capitalism and utopian society of complete selfishness. Ayn Rand wrote "The Fountainhead" (also a movie) and "Atlas Shrugged," both popular reading on many 1960s-1980s college campuses. In the remainder of the 2012 election campaign, GOP candidates Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney will use Ayn Rand's arrogant "let them die" philosophy to rally more support from the radical right wing Tea Party and other poorly educated, closet white supremicists, proto-facsists, and cowardly racists who are not smart enough to realize they are voting against their own best interests. If Ayn Rand and her very extreme philosophy become the core of the GOP-vs-Dem Presidential debate, this will turn off so very many more progressive liberals and independents. And if more of them do not vote Nov. 6, 2012, that will hugely benefit the GOP who have won election after election with only a 24%-26% turnout of primarily their most radical right (white) supporters at the polls. Progressives in 2012 need to make the last 30 years of the right wing's deliberate systematic destruction of "the public welfare" and well-being the core issues. We need to make community building, group cooperation and the "general welfare" the major issues of the 2012 election.
• Slate: Why is there no... (983) 0000-00-00 Yale professor Beverly Gage published this article in "Slate" online magazine Monday 12.08.13. In effect she puts-down liberals in general for loosing (or ignoring) their 60s-70s more strident humanitarian liberal values, yielding modern-day social-political and economic stridency and "extremism" to the radical right wing zealots now parading in the US national media. Surely progressives can do better in 2012.
• Wikipedia: Ayn Rand (503) 0000-00-00 Wikipedia's current long article about controversial anti-communist, possibly proto-fascist Ayn Rand, author of "Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged," books that are part of modern day (2012) Republican "canon" of motivational literature.
• NYT: Editorial: Paul Ryan's... (536) 0000-00-00 The Monday 12.08.27 New York Times editorial page featured this strong criticism of GOP Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan's Social Extremism and what it means to the radical right and Republican moderates.
• NYT: Editorial: Republican... (528) 0000-00-00 This New York Times editorial of Tuesday 12.08.28 was especially critical of the propaganda, truth-twisting and blatant lies a parade of speakers offered the Republican 2012 Convention attendees in Tampa, Florida, and the hopefully few television watchers of it across the USA.
• The ConnectTheDotsUSA web site (507) 0000-00-00
• NYT: Krugman: Panic of the... (496) 0000-00-00 Progressive economist Paul Krugman in his Monday 11.10.10 New York Times column points out how the now 3+ weeks old Occupy Wall Street protest movement has reduced the justifications of the pundits and apologists for the "economic royalists" (i.e. the super-rich) to nonsense. I.e. the non-violent protests of a few 100 or 1000 youth and supportive laborers has exposed the fraud of the super-rich who have gamed the US and world economic systems for 3+ decades just for their personal benefit, crippling the economy for everyone else.

Reversing 30+ Years of Legal Tricks + Traps (weblinks)

• DN: the ALEC Exposed report... (623) 0000-00-00 Democracy Now of 11.07.15 interviewed Lisa Graves, the founder of ALEC Exposed dot org. The web site recently exposed information that the ultra conservative ALEC organization has brought together conservative corporations and legislators since the 1970s who have drafted over 800 state laws, many of which have become law in conservative states.

Social Engineering (weblinks)

• Wiki: Human Population Control (952) 0000-00-00 Think Globally, Act Locally. The US government and some giant corporations did social engineering through the 1800s, 1900s, and arguably more biased towards extreme capitalist right-wing values from the late 1980s through the first decade of the 2000s. Will we-the-people, especially the progressive-liberal people, have input to and control over such social engineering? If so, how? Like climate change may now be, is the social engineered damage irreversible?

Strikes, Striking, Strikers (weblinks)

• FR24: Who's on strike in... (841) 0000-00-00 A very interesting report in France 24 (online French news in English and French), 10.10.21. The report summarized the major strategy of a plurality of strikers protesting French President Sarkozy's attempt to ram through French parliament a law raising the retirement age from 62 to 67, lowering retiree's pension incomes, and making other "austerity" cuts to Frances long time very comfortable pension system. The strategies to achieve "disruption of commerce" and "transportation" nation-wide (what would be 2 adjacent states of California in the USA) by a relative few 100s or 1000s of determined people is worth studying and contemplating.

Sustainable Agriculture (weblinks)

• VSAT: Vets for Sustainable... (463) 0000-00-00

Term 2 Obama and Crew Speak Out More Boldly (weblinks)

The Good Works of GP Members in Office (weblinks)

• Blueprint America: Dubuque... (1085) 0000-00-00 Roy Buol, retired from John Deer, became a Green Party member in Iowa. He then became the mayor of Dubuque, Iowa, where he's been doing many "green things" for the city that Dubuque-ians strongly support. This is a PBS News Hour report of 6/17/10 on his work.

The Health and Care of Animals Used for Food (weblinks)

• Cows on Drugs (629) 0000-00-00 Cows used for dairy milk, cows and steers taken to slaughter to make "beef" and so many other slaughter-house by-products ALL TAKE DRUGS. Is that "good" or "bad" and why?
• The Power of Social... (500) 0000-00-00 Social Networking in often oppressive Indonesia is making some difference. (But it's not doing much in China yet...)

The Power and Best Uses of Social Networking (weblinks)

Tips and Tutorials (weblinks)

• Flow Diagram: Joomla... (443) 0000-00-00 There is a link to the flow-chart on this page. The page walks you through the flow-chart verbally. This is a good reference for debugging when your Joomla site's "front end" pages have warning or error messages BEFORE even the header of your request web site's page is rendered on your browser.
• Social Media: Using Facebook... (555) 0000-00-00 Edy Alvarez of the California Green Party produced a Facebook "note page" entitled: "Employing Facebook Groups In Order To Build Critical Mass for The Green Party From The Comfort Of Your Couch (How-to Guide)." Any U.S. state's Green Party can benefit from adopting this social media tactic.
• Social Media: Tools to help... (610) 0000-00-00
• Shareaholic Browser and Web... (521) 0000-00-00 To facilitate easier cross-posting of information to web sites, Shareaholic.com has a free "browser plugin." People can download and auto-magically install the plugin in their web browser program in less than a minute. Web sites, e.g. CAGreenIDEAS.org and CAGreens.org, can download and install a similar Shareaholic web site tool which distributes user posts to the target web site also to 1+ additional web sites, perhaps with "similar user demographics" and interests. As of 11.12.09, I (jgw) have not yet user-tested either cross-posting tool.
• NYT: Gary Hart: Behind the... (679) 0000-00-00 Former California Senator, disgraced candidate for President, now Dr. Gary Hart, wrote this lesson about the real politique of party coalition building in the Friday 11.12.16 New York Times.
• The Campaigns and Elections... (612) 0000-00-00 I (jgw) don't yet know where the Campaigns and Elections magazine comes down politically. However, I think it is a magazine for political consultants to the Duopoly Party. In that case it is trying to be a "thought leader" to their status quo thinking and their decades-old standard operating procedures those consultants recommend for the campaigns they consult. Lao Tsu's "Tao of War" says (paraphrasing): "Know your enemy." As in: anticipate their moves before they do. Gandhi would then have us "weaken the enemy's resolve to attack and defeat us" by pointing out with compassion our common goals and dreams.
• The Winning Campaigns web site (511) 0000-00-00 The Winning Campaigns web site heading says they are about presenting the "Winning strategies, services and products for political campaign management, (political) advocacy, and (successful) governmental and public affairs." Words in parentheses () are mine, jgw.
• Joomla 1.5 Tutorials (649) 0000-00-00
• JA: The Pros and Cons of... (758) 0000-00-00 As of April 2013, the JoomlaArts.com web site has had this article comparing the technical differences of the several existing Template Framework Systems with which state-of-the-art template designer-builders are creating more amazing, powerful and flexible templates for Joomla web sites. Interestingly for the future of CMS web site design and building, the emergence of template frameworks beginning about 2005 promises to make possible transporting templates or themes between very different types of Content Management Systems.

Tips, Tricks, Tutorials & Classes (weblinks)

Tips: Negotiating Compromise (weblinks)

• DC: 12 Tips for Negotiating... (869) 0000-00-00 The Dale Carnegie (DC) site, who's founder's nation-wide influence on sales, selling and politics begins in the 1950s or 1940s, has these "plain vanilla" 12 tips on negotiating compromise with un-willing people. Please take these ideas and couple them with article and web links on this web site about "reframing" devious right-wing propaganda to create some very persuasive progressive 12 or more tips on negotiating compromise! ...Then submit them to this web site a.s.a.p! jgw140607

Tips+Tutorials: Drupal (weblinks)

• Drupal: ModulesUnraveled.com... (911) 0000-00-00 The ModulesUnraveled.com web site lets the casual web site visitor, a new or experienced Drupal web site builder, view 2-3 video tutorials before requiring the visitor register for an account on the web site, no doubt to track which users use which videos how often. But all of the material about the many most popularly used Drupal modules, whether you register or not, is free to access anytime as many times as you like. He talks fast and moves his mouse pointer quickly; repetition is required especially if you are unfamiliar with the Drupal technical jargon and site buildling.
• Drupal: BuildAModule.com... (465) 0000-00-00 The BuildAModule.com web site was recommended by 2013 GPCA ITWG member and at-large CC member, Sasha Karlik, of Los Angeles. The tutorials on the site deal with how to program, install, test, and deploy an add-on Module for the Drupal CMS. A few of them are free, but the "meat" of any series of videos will cost you $29/mo. to view them. Sasha or I will say more about the contents of the site and quality of the videos in 1+ series once we have viewed some of the video tutorials. jgw130414
• Drupal: Lullabot.com ($35/mo.) (426) 0000-00-00 After the first 2 or so videos, the site wants you to register for an account, give your credit card and then it will charge you $35/month to view the remainder of a tutorial video series. The LullaBot.com web site was recommended by 2013 GPCA ITWG member and at-large CC member, Sasha Karlik, of Los Angeles. He or I will say more about the contents of the site once we have viewed some of the video tutorials. jgw130414
• DrupalCamp Montreal, Fall... (399) 0000-00-00 The keynote talk at DrupalCamp Montreal, Sept. or Oct. 2012, was by Amitai Burnstein, a self-described Drupal and Organic Groups (OG) "geek." This keynote talk about OG is 43 minutes long.

Track Records of GP Elected Officials (weblinks)

Trends Going Into the November 2010 Elections (weblinks)

• NYT: The US Congressional Ad... (806) 0000-00-00 Graphics and explanations of major national issues for the USA November 2010 Elections as of Sept. 2010, ...with the usual bias of only talking about Democrats and Republicans.
• NYT: Republican-Democrat Ad... (482) 0000-00-00 The USA Republican-Democrat media advertising war as of September 2010.

Trends Going Into the November 2012 Elections (weblinks)

• NYT: Retirements Threaten... (389) 0000-00-00 If the Green Party US, California, and in other key states were very well organized, motivated and funded, I (jgw) would say this news presents a huge opportunity to replace those retiring House Democrats with Greens after the Nov. 2012 general election.
• GPUS: Greens Show Solidarity... (384) 0000-00-00 The GPUS web site, www.gp.org, "Green Pages" section published this article about Green-Occupy solidarity building 12.04.18.
• PEW: There Are More Liberal... (486) 0000-00-00 Andrew reported on the Facebook Occupy Green group 12.04.25 that results of the PEW Research organization's recent survey of "who are independent voters in 2012 and how many of them are there?" They call the independents: "The Party of Non-Voters." How much trouble will it be for Greens to get a significant number of these "non-voters" to vote for Green Party Candidates? Should we bother to try?
• BM&C: K.H. Jamieson:... (530) 0000-00-00 The Bill Moyers and Company PBS news commentary and analysis show of Friday 12.05.11 opened with a 28 minute interview with Kathleen Hall Jamieson. She runs the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, which work products include analysis of US mass media content and tactics and maintaining the FactCheck.org and FlackCheck.org web sites. A transcript is available at the BM&C web site's web page.
• NYT: Jill Stein to Accept GP... (403) 0000-00-00 The New York Time of 12.07.12 reported that Jill Stein will accept the nomination of the Green Party today to run for the office of President of the United States. The Times speculates that the GP is struggling to be heard now that Ralph Nader is not the candidate or spokesperson for the party.
• GP: Pres. Candidate Jill... (442) 0000-00-00 As of 12.08.02 1330 PDT, the New York Time, Washington Post, and Reuters news services have so far failed to report this. On Aug. 1st, 12.08.01, Green Party U.S. Presidential Candidate Jill Stein and her VP running mate Cheri Honkala were arrested in a Philadelphia, PA, bank for participating in a sit-in protest and ill-fated "negotiation" to oppose home mortgage foreclosures the bank and Fannie Mae brought against two poor customers.
• DBeast: Jill Stein arrested... (490) 0000-00-00 While major (establishment) news outlets like the New York Time, Washington Post, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, etc. failed to report this incident, the DailyBeast.com reported Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein's arrest with her running mate Cheri Honkala at a Philadelphia bank August 3, 2012. Stein, Honkala and a dozen or more others created a sit-in inside the bank which has some control over mortgage giant Fannie Mae's mortgages and whether or not to pursue foreclosures against Philadelphia home owners who can no longer afford to pay.
• YT: Rant Against... (457) 0000-00-00 A righteous rant on YouTube against home foreclosures in California with a July 2012 foreclosures map. 5 minutes.
• NYT: Krugman: Paul Ryan, the... (294) 0000-00-00 Progressive economist, Paul Krugman, blows away GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan's "smoke screen" Ryanomics facade in Krugman's Monday 12.08.20 column in the New York Times. Krugman's opinions list the Ryanomics numbers that simply don't add up right and which are, therefore, deceptive and confusing to the less educated in the US electorate who will decide which party wins the 2012 General Election.
• BM&C: The US Founding... (482) 0000-00-00 In his Friday 12.08.17 broadcast, elderly progressive journalist Bill Moyers interviewed Khalil Muhammed, author of "The Condemnation of Blackness" and director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. The show is titled "Facing our Racial Past." The strong implication of the interview is "this racially divided past," the documented factual origins of the USA, with legally sanctioned mass slavery, is what the radical right that controls the GOP and the election debate so far in 2012 want this country to return to. In this way: "The South of the 1700s and 1800s will rise again!" New slavery for the 21st century is likely to be not only slavery -- including sexual slavery -- by ownership, indentured servitude that somehow lasts a life-time or wage slavery until-you-die in a corrupt predatory Capitalist Economy, perhaps in perpetual financial "crisis," that deliberately creates "no escape" from that viciously coercive and exploitive system.
• PEW: The Likely Non-Voters... (331) 0000-00-00 This is old October 2010 news from the PEW Research Center. But the trend vividly described in the 2010 report probably has not changed that much in two years as of summer 2012. THE LATEST STATISTICS NEED TO BE FOUND AND REPORTED HERE AND ELSEWHERE A.S.A.P. In Fall 2010, PEW researchers found that non voters in the USA were less republicans, i.e. possibly more formerly democrat or independent voters, and they were younger, i.e. those recently reaching voting age and in their early 20s. They also were less educated and more financially stressed. As of summer 2012, 4-5 years into the Great Recession, what are they odds they can afford to get a GED or return to community colleges that have raised their fees by 50% to 100%? In the most vicious "buyers market" in 50+ years, what are the odds they still are jobless and/or that financially stressed from being forced to work at a lower wage job than they might have had 2 or 4+ years earlier? What are the odds recent college graduates and first-time students still in college are more financially stressed? Then there is the question of "Which major party benefits the most from there being an increase in the numbers of non-voters?" Quick answer: The GOP. And the low intelligence level and deceptive pitches in their political ads prove the point and reveal their strategy... keep them dumb and dumber and still listening to you as if you're the last great white hope.
• NYT: House GOP wants war on... (494) 0000-00-00 In an editorial, the New York Times of 11.05.17 offered the opinion that the House GOP (Republican) majority wants to put into law the right of any future US President to wage unilateral war without end on terrorism, without any overt act of provocation. They would allow the President to do so anywhere in the world (including within the USA) with few to no restrictions on when, where, with what intensity, and for how long that war may continue.
• NYT: Gingrich Upset at... (413) 0000-00-00 The New York Times reported 11.12.25 that GOP Candidate Newt Gingrich issued a critical statement of the Virginia Republican Party. The Virginia GOP denied Gingrich and 4 other GOP candidates permission to be listed on the Virginia Primary election ballot. GOP candidates Mitt Romney and Ron Paul were accepted.
• BBC: Gingrich says Virginia... (392) 0000-00-00 On Saturday 11.12.24 the Virginia GOP denied 5 GOP Presidential candidates permission to be listed on the Virgina Primary ballot. The Virginia GOP accepted only Mitt Romney and Ron Paul for the ballot. Newt Gingrich objected angrily. The BBC of 11.12.25 reported the Gingrich campaign's claim that "The Virginia GOP is very disorganized," perhaps a "nice" way of saying they were incompetent or prejudicial in their choice.
• NYT: Nebraska Senator 7th... (382) 0000-00-00 The New York Times of 11.12.27 reported that 2 term Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson will not run for office again. He joins 6 other Democratic Caucus Senators who have bowed out of the 2012 race for reelection to Congress including: "Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota, Herb Kohl of Wisconsin and Jim Webb of Virginia [who] are in swing states where they were likely to have encountered strong [GOP] challenges in 2012."
• NYT: Obama to Nominate 2... (476) 0000-00-00 The New York Times reported 11.12.27 that President Obama will nominate two Democrats with exceptional expertise in Financial Markets to the Federal Reserve Board.
• Reuters: GE Gets into Banking (409) 0000-00-00 Reuters reported 11.12.27 that GE is buying MetLife in order to get into retail / consumer banking.
• Reuters: Youth vote... (529) 0000-00-00 Reuters news service reported Wednesday 11.12.28 that a new study from American University predicts the youth vote will be less in November 2012 than it was in 2008 (and in 2010?).
• WP: Obama signs NDAA into law (664) 0000-00-00 The Washington Post reported Saturday 11.12.31 that President Obama, vacationing in Hawaii, signed into law today the National Defense Authorization Act. He previously had threatened to veto the bill unless Congress revised the parts which allow the US military to indefinitely detain US civilians suspected of involvement in terrorism. See his explanation for signing the slightly revised bill on this web site.
• Reuters: Jerry Brown's... (611) 0000-00-00 In a special report, Reuters news service summarized the implications of 3rd term California Governor Jerry Brown's decision to stop talking to Republican legislators and put a tax increase on the November 2012 ballot for all the people of California to decide.
• OpEd: Dem can no longer... (446) 0000-00-00 OpEdNews.com published this article by a Democrat who can no longer register voters as Democrats. He may desert the party.
• NYT: "We The People" Loses... (398) 0000-00-00 The New York Times reported Tuesday 12.02.07 that the phrase "We The People," so important in the U.S. Constitution and so much the pride of the American people for 2 centuries, has lost its appeal world-wide. CAUTION: the article author writes in ways that can be interpreted as a not so subtle appeal to have a Constitutional Convention that would re-write the US Constitution.
• NYT: Krugman: Moochers... (590) 0000-00-00 Progressive economist Paul Krugman may be getting less timid to call a conservative spade a spade (i.e. a deep hole digger). In his Friday 12.02.15 column Krugman points out that today's ultra conservative in power are the most conservative since 1879!

Trends Going Into the November 2014 Elections (weblinks)

• Politico: Senate Passes... (343) 0000-00-00 Politico.com of Thursday June 27, 2013 (13.06.27) reported some of the details of the Immigration Reform Bill of 2013, just passed by the U.S. Senate this day, 68-32.
• NYT: Senate Passes... (358) 0000-00-00 The New York Times reported Thursday June 27,2013 (13.06.27) that the U.S. Senate passed the "Immigration Reform Bill" of 2013, 68-32, and gives some details about the Senate version of the bill. The article speculates on the chances that this bill or an amended version will pass the U.S. House in coming weeks or if the House-dominating Republicans will push their vote into 2014.
• PEW+HuffPost: 18-29 More... (443) 0000-00-00 The Huffington Post of July 11, 2013 (13.07.11) reported the results of a PEW Study which was released this same day. Young people 18-29 are more in disfavor of capitalism and more in favor of socialism. So no more New Republicans will be sprouting for a while, right?
• YT+GP: Chris Hedges... (692) 0000-00-00 Posted on YouTube, this is Chris Hedges' speech to the Green Party (GP) of New Jersey Convention in March, 2013. He calls on more planning for supporting longer-lasting on-sites progressive protests of civil-disobedience and for rebuilding historically pivotal mass movements for the 2nd decade of the 21st century. And we still work to maintain GP ballot status in states where we have it, expand that status where we still do not have it, and improve our abilities to run effective campaigns at the local, state, and soon national levels!
• DKA: Run A Green American... (337) 0000-00-00 "After six terms, Montana Bluest of the Blue Dog Democrats, Sen. Max Baucus is retiring and his Senate seat will be up for grabs in November 2014. Greens in Montana! Lobby current Montana governor Brian Schweitzer or a better American Indian candidate to run for Max Bacus' Senate seat as a Green! Greens across the USA (and Canada?) support him -- or her -- like you've never supported another candidate. This announcement endorsing the Montana governor run as a Democrat is care of Edward Cherlin on Facebook and the "Daily Kos Action" (dailykos.com) web site.

Trends in Elections and the Electorate (weblinks)

• FR24: Angry Greeks Oust... (459) 0000-00-00 Austerity "hawks" who have made the Great Recession so much worse for the Greeks since 2008 were ousted from the Greek government in the elections held Sunday 12.05.06. Source: France 24
• FR24: Socialist Hollande The... (929) 0000-00-00 As of 8 p.m. French time (11 a.m. PDT) Sunday 12.05.06, the French people may have given the Presidency of France to Francoise Hollande. Socialist challenger Hollande had 51.9% of the votes as polls closed, conservative incumbent President Sarkozy had 48.1% and abstaining voters were 21%.
• NYT: The American Thought... (445) 0000-00-00 Economist Paul Krugman gives an vivid example in his 11.03.27 column in the New York Times of how the G.O.P. has become the new American Thought Police. For some this is 3+ decades old news, but still a useful reminder.

Uncategorised (weblinks)

United States Green Party web sites (weblinks)

US & UK Culture vs. the EU (weblinks)

• S&E: Movies that Changed the... (423) 0000-00-00 In the EU, particularly France and Germany, movies are made for their art, their thoughtfulness, their often painful candor and truthfulness. Not so in the US and UK where, like TV, movies are pacifiers and sex-gender and societal role reinforcement. In 1979 the Siskel and Ebert movie review show on US public television stations broadcast this 22 minutes long commentary "The Movies that Changed the Movies." 2011 reviewers Christy Lemire and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of the updated S&E PBS show, "Ebert Presents At the Movies", add their contemporary observations for a few minutes in the remainder of the 30 minute show.

Videos of Interest to Progressives (weblinks)

• CSPAN2-BookTV: Told You So,... (391) 0000-00-00 Ralph Nader, previous Green Party candidate for President, appeared on CSPAN2 BookTV Saturday May 30, 2013 (13.05.30). He spoke for 1 hour and 9 minutes about his new book: "Told You So: The Big Book of (his) Weekly Columns," 2013, Seven Stories Press. In the first 10 minutes he summarizes the progressive issues and obstacles we have before us. He then reads some of the columns he wrote that are in his book.
• A Perspective on The Green... (416) 0000-00-00 Adelphia.com and xxxx TV Los Angeles broadcast this panel discussion in 2003 as part of their Southern California Public Affairs series. Since then YouTube has had a copy of it which you can view as a video stream at will. Bill Rosendhal was the host and master of ceremonies (MC). OTHER GREEN PARTY PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEWS and Discussions that were recorded in the 2000s will be listed in the border of your YouTube page. jgw 13.01.02
• Bill Moyers & Company -... (477) 0000-00-00 Progressive journalist and very elder citizen Bill Moyers began his latest series of weekily one hour investigative journalism and expert commentary shows, Bill Moyers and Company, on January 13, 2012. The video streams and the transcripts of the video segments are available on the web site.
• DN: Iraq Torture and Gen.... (348) 0000-00-00 The Friday 22, 2013 (13.03.22) Democracy Now program featured excepts from the new documentary "James Steele: America's mystery man in Irag." The commentator about the film interviewed on Democracy Now is Maggie O'Kane, multimedia investigations editor at The Guardian (UK). Apparently she edited the film. The film is one of the work-products of a several year, joint investigation of the BBC, The Guardian news (UK), and Aljazeera. They investigated General Steele and his top staff members' activities in Iraq establishing torture centers there, arguably the cause of the current Sunni-Shiite civil war, and uncovered his previous activities working with Colonel Oliver North in the Iran-Contra affair of Ronald Reagan's presidency and Steel's oversight of the US pro-right training of counter-revolutionary forces in El Salvador. Interestingly, 15 EU countries have bought a copy of the film, are broadcasting it "now" (on the tenth (10-th) anniversary of the War on Iraq), and will continue to broadcast it in coming weeks (April 2013). No media outlet or news agency in the USA, has yet bought the film or has announced plans to broadcast the film. However, DemocracyNow.org may have a link to the film on their web site "soon."

Watch Dog Groups (weblinks)

Web Site Examples (weblinks)

What US Military Planners Talk About (weblinks)

• CSPAN: Navy Undersecretary... (585) 0000-00-00 The CATO Institute, not at all progressive or liberal, held a conference on Monday 12.05.22 featuring the US Navy Undersecretary, a CBO analyst, an NGO analyst, and a CATO. All presented their analysis and criticisms of Navy military fleet development and purchasing policies related to Surface Combat Fleet procurement and operations. The 90 minute talk is a very good source of issues and talking points that are commonly used by conservatives and other military hawks. (Watch the testosterone flow!) From CSPAN: "U.S. Navy Undersecretary Robert Work outlined the future of the Navy€™s surface combat fleet Monday at the Cato Institute in Washington. "He discussed the current budgetary constraints and increasing the use of the littoral combat ship, a small surface vessel designed for combat operations close to shore. "Additional panelists included Eric Labs, Congressional Budget Office senior analyst for Naval Forces and Weapons; Ben Freeman, Project on Government Oversight national security fellow; and Christopher Preble, Cato Institute vice president for defense and foreign policy studies."

Whistleblowers, Blowing, Protections (weblinks)

• OTM: A New Whistleblowers... (517) 0000-00-00 In On The Media's weekly report aired Friday November 30, 2012, the final story was about a very important change in the Whistleblowers Protection Enhancement Act which was "put on indefinite hold" by one mysterious senator in the US Senate in 2010. Thanks to President Obama's secret actions since the Nov. 6, 2012, election, outlined in this program, that law has passed and been signed by Pres. Obama. As a result government employees can now get legal protection when they blow the whistle about their agency's operations, and acts of their leadership, supervisors, staff, or contractors that seem to break the law. It should now be more clear to the general public that there was an unspoken, possibly unspeakable, "reign of terror" creating fear for one's job, one's family's well-being and causing self-censorship within government agencies. That climate of fear possibly existed for decades preventing employees from reporting any unethical or apparently illegal acts in their work place. 10:42 minutes english audio stream, no transcript.

Who is Smart Enough to Protest? (weblinks)

• FB: The USA Does NOT Have A... (452) 0000-00-00 Alex J. Seneri of the Illinois Green Party posted this link on the Facebook Illinois GP group page July 4, 2013 (13.0704). The Segneri presents his summary of Sociologist Robert Merton's "Deviance Theory" about social deviance and Merton's 3x3 box matrix graphic titled "Robert K. Merton's Deviance Typology." (It is a simple matrix to understand.) I suppose if one is planning a protest and, I hope, a non-violent up-rising (with leaders or leader-less) one and all involved ought to have these 5 (potentially 9) states of mass social deviance in mind and well understood. Don't want to cause violent riots, you know.

Who is Smart Enough to Vote? (weblinks)

• Generation Ageless:... (629) 0000-00-00 The linked-to 2010 Stanford (mostly conservative) Roundtable is on YouTube. The issues discussed are, I (JGW) estimate, at the freshman college level and superficially discussed. But in 90 minutes you get a summary of the issues we all face and which we all must better discuss between now, 2025 and 2050. Know your "enemies" and those who will ignore you, confuse or dissuade you from your progressive ideals... The round table discussion features Tom Brokaw, NBC Correspondent, as the 70 y.o. moderator and multiple Stanford (and one Harvard) graduates as commentators: * John L. Hennesey, former Professor of Computer Science and President of Stanford. * Robert Sapolsky, Professor of Biology, Neuology and Neural Sciences who makes comparisons of mammals in general with human beings. * Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Conner, 80, who as grand mom is afraid of Alzheimers and wants more research like "we" had in the 50s to "cure" polio done quickly to cure it. * Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer at Facebook, an MBA holder in her late 20s or early 30s, wired-in and pro-technology; one of the new (mis-led?) younger conservatives. * Barry Rand, CEO of AARP. * Laura L. Carstensen, Director of the Stanford Center on Longevity and Professor of Psychology.
• NYT: 8th Grade Civics Test... (602) 0000-00-00 The New York Times of 11.05.05 reports that over 50% of US 8th graders failed a standard test in US Civics. This observer wonders: what scores would their parents get?

Economic Alternatives (weblinks)

• A "Mixed Economy" definition... (543) 0000-00-00 Thanks to the authors of "Winner Takes All Politics," Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson. They gave an update speech in the SF Bay Area in March 2012, a "what has changed" largely for the wose" since 2010. I (jgw) post their recommendation for an alternative economy now that the 0.1% plutocracy owns and controls almost everything including our government. One foreboding remark: if, say, Greens took over 25-40% of both houses of Congress, sadly still not likely, still there would be minority radical right obstructionist in Congress who would impose their take-it-or-leave-it rule!
• The My NCPlenty Alternative... (600) 0000-00-00 A liberal feminist "Hare Krishna" online younger friend of mine informed me Wednesday 12.05.30 that this "scrip money" local alternative economy has been working well for her and her friends for years! The google site which is the target of this link presents a recreation of the ncplenty.org web site's home page. It shows their "NC Plenty" sample currency, or scrip money, front and back views and the front side of the several denominations of those bills. See also the NCPlenty.org web site cited on this web site and information about the Green Party of California's "Greenback" bills ...examples coming soon to this web site.
• The NCPlenty.org web site... (644) 0000-00-00
• The Transaction.net web... (513) 0000-00-00 The NCPlenty.org web site which manages the scrip currency supply and membership lists for alternative local economies in North Carolina cites Transaction.net says "Local currencies have cycled in and out of popularity for the last two hundred years. They have often been issued during times of economic stress, when local resources - goods, talent, and labor - have been under-utilized." The Transaction.net site offers readings from Bernard Lietaer's book, "Community Currencies: A New Tool for the 21st Century." Lietaer's book offers a brief history of alternative currencies "from ancient Egypt through the 20th century." And Lietaer comments "Today, local currencies are again mushrooming all over the world in an impressive diversity and increasing sophistication. ... [T]he key to the success of a community currency, just as for any currency, is trust. In this case it is trust in your neighbors, in the community as a whole, and in the community's leaders."
• NYT: India's Microfinancing... (690) 0000-00-00 The New York Times of 10.11.17 reported that India's Micro-Finance system may collapse due to the recent inclusion of less scrupulous, for-profit micro-financeers. Apparently the for-profit micro-finance loan providers are gouging and coercing their micro loan holders imposing greater hard-ships on the poor, some suicides, and the entire India state of Anra Pradesh refusing to repay any micro-finance loans. That refusal in turn is putting financial pressure on the larger Indian banks which provide funds to the non-profit and for-profit micro-loan providers.
• Hour Exchange, Portland (874) 0000-00-00 The PBS News Hour program of 10.11.17 had a feature report about the new "Hour Exchange" barter system people in Portland and Corvalis Oregon have setup. The system allows blue-collar and white-collar people who's money resources are crippled in this "Great Recession" to still get and give goods and services to each other without using the normal broken money economy. Here is the Hour Exchange's Portland web site.
• NYT: Hour Exchanges in Maine... (622) 0000-00-00 The PBS News Hour of 10.11.17 explores new "Hour Exchange" programs in Maine and Oregon to "swap service time to help stretch dollars in (this) recession". See also: Hour Exchange, Portland. Also search on Facebook for "Hour Exchange".
• DN: The National Priorities... (612) 0000-00-00 As of January 2011 a new National Network of economic progressives in the USA is forming to help "We the People" in many states working at the grass-roots level find ways to improve our state and local economies with little to no help likely to come from the Federal government for several more years. See a reference to the "National Priorities Project" on the DemocracyNow.org progressive news show of 11.01.06.
• Nationalization (595) 0000-00-00 The WikiPedia defines Nationalization. Nationalization of US banks was suggested when the financial crisis of 2008 occurred. Some progressive economists continue to recommend that action to speed up the recovery from The Great Recession that followed. Some thought leaders in California want there to be a California State Bank that performs similar functions as a public national bank. It might provided more financial services at lower costs than can the too big to fail private banks. The services would include lower interest loans to small businesses, non-profit organizations and individuals of all socio-economic classes. Such banks might be, in part, a state-wide (or national) Grameen-type bank.
• WUW: Happy 69 y.o. woman has... (565) 0000-00-00 Wakeup-World.com reported in December 2011 of a 69 year old German woman who has lived without money for 22 years.
• BBC: Marx now more attractive (647) 0000-00-00 The BBC News service of 11.09.03 presented this opinion that in the wake of The Great Recession, more people are reconsidering the Economic philosophy of Karl Marx.
• BBC: BerkShares in use in... (656) 0000-00-00 The BBC of 11.09.06 reported that the people of Berkshire County in Massachusetts have been using their "Berk Shares," which county officials print, to bolster their small local economy. Berkshire has 19,000 people and created their Berk Shares in 2004. The Berk Share values are tied to the dollar, i.e. there is an exchange rate which the county can vary as necessary, shares-buy-so-many-dollars, dollars-buy-so-many-shares. Especially in the on-going Great Recession since 2008 the Berk Shares are easier to use than