BP is fighting to stop payments on claims to all those who lives they damaged because they claim that the Gulf is "recovering"?
I know this is hard to imagine but what if the financial industry in a nation conspired to create a dishonest system that looked to everyone else to be a sound and thriving economy but wasn't?
Now suspend your disbelief...
Oftentimes in the media, newspeople talk about the economic crisis as though it were a natural phenomenon, like a drought or a flood. They speak about it as though no one really caused this to happen, as though it were not a human invention. But it is, of course.
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
~Thomas A. Edison
There is a lot of talk...
Oh, for the fun of it, let's take another look. Will tonight be all Newt-Romney?
Essentially the economy has been left alone to heal itself for almost 4 years. It is a testament to the American spirit and work ethic that we've managed to heal ourselves to the extent we have.
Terrorism is defined as, ""The systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion." So is the GOP.
A quick look into an Irish Presidential debate which I attended on the 20 October.
Every Friday night, my Tivo fires up to save what is one of the best arguments for the existence of television, Bill Moyers Journal. As a human being and a journalist, Bill exudes the kind of integrity that has...
1. Under the sea, an enormous, so-far-unstoppable eruption of oil endangers a huge swath of ocean, as well as the lives and livelihoods of a multitude.
2. On land, Climate Change has ushered in severe weather devastating towns and cities.
3....