Here are copies of the letters I’ve sent to Mr. Trump. You can also send your message at The White House web site. 03/24/2017 Mr. Trump, We would remind you that since your inauguration only 65 days have passed. The silliness of your claims to have improved the job market, for example, are telling and … [Read more…]
At the Intercept this thought provoking article about the Whitehouse’s abandonment of its populist rhetoric concerning Wall Street: That populist smokescreen is long gone now. Mnuchin and Donovan are just two of five Goldman expats in high-level positions on Trump’s team. Steve Bannon spent a limited time at Goldman Sachs, but White House assistant Dina … [Read more…]
Another insightful view of the damage done by George W Bush’s administration was published in the INTERCEPT, comparing Bush’s use of the press during the run up to the Iraq war against Trump’s incompetent battle with the press, 14 years after the Iraq invasion. Below, is a copy of some reminiscences of a series of … [Read more…]
Sacramento Union, 9 March 1917 Right of Indians to Cast Ballots Upheld Aborigines of California Can Vote Under Queretaro Treaty, Rules the Supreme Court. SAN FRANCISCO, March 8. – The right to vote was confirmed to Ethan Anderson, a Lake county Indian, by a state supreme court decision handed down here today. The county clerk … [Read more…]
Keeping people poor is a political choice we can no longer afford, with so much human potential wasted. We need a universal basic income By Rutger Bregman the Guardian, March 6, 2017.
Healdsburg Tribune, 5 March 1927 THE PRESENT CONGRESS passed out of existence at high noon on March 4th. Its present session has certainly been a dismal failure. We think of no outstanding measure that has been given to the people. Several good measures were before them, but the democrats and republicans seemed to be afraid … [Read more…]
Today, it is apparent that advertising’s roots in propaganda are resurfacing, we can now add the term analytics under the propaganda heading. These new and highly devious suites of techniques are becoming key to swaying hundreds of millions of people who use social media and who are unprotected from targeted advertising during their internet sessions. Persuasion is part and … [Read more…]
In this recent article from IEEE Spectrum on the Fukushima disaster, they mention something called CORIUM. I’d not heard of it before so I went to the Wikipedia page on Corium and became a little less ignorant about what it is and what this article really means. What the authors say in Spectrum isn’t really … [Read more…]
In searching for a suitable article to include in my “This Day in History” section, I chose the February 20th, 1877 edition of the Sacramento Union to try to find something interesting. There was column after column of reports on the volatile situation in Congress surrounding the contested 1876 election of Hayes and Tilden. The electoral … [Read more…]
Sanders repeated many of the populist platforms he ran on, including rallying against the influence of money in politics and a financial system he says rewards Wall Street bankers while the American middle class shrinks. The key to a progressive resurgence, he said, could be turning The Ape In A Suit’s message on its head by persuading … [Read more…]