Saturday Musings: Some Links

Here are some interesting links to visit that contain the wonderful attribute of 'surfing',,, these articles link to other articles and before you know it you are spinning a web.

Here is a nice little history lesson about the relationship of Wall Street and Main Street:

Our system of government is an oligarchy inside a democracy. The system is built on an unspoken bargain:

   " The rise of representative democracy involved a difficult and delicately executed trade-off of property security for the richest and historically most powerful actors in exchange for universal suffrage for the unpropertied masses."

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Here is a good article, with a good history link to deep dive into the topic if you want (with a video link as well) about the ridiculous notion that Corporations are People:

Of all the Occupy Wall Street refrains, one of the most memorable is, "I refuse to believe that corporations are people until Texas executes one." But, clever as it is, the quip looks to the wrong end of the life cycle: The only thing more corrupt than the legal concept of corporate personhood is the way a Gilded Age judge birthed it.

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 Here is an example of the Obama Administration in action:

"In a new report, the chief executives of GE, Intel, Boeing and other companies also backed White House proposals to fix infrastructure like airports, railways and electricity grids and to expand broadband Internet networks as a way to boost hiring and speed up flagging growth."

So American taxpayers are going to flip the bill to build the infrastructure for private corporations to then bill us for the services of using them ...

"Let's go to the videotape!"

   

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Here is one to make you get up and join or start your local #Occupy brigade:

Speaking at the Atlantic Idea Fest earlier this week, Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan sat down for a televised interview with CNBC’s Larry Kudlow. Defending the bank’s new $5 per month debit card fee, Moynihan invented something he called  the “right to make a profit.”

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And then Iran tried attacked us!  Which side are the Koch Brothers on?:

In May 2008, a unit of Koch Industries Inc., one of the world’s largest privately held companies, sent Ludmila Egorova-Farines, its newly hired compliance officer and ethics manager, to investigate the management of a subsidiary in Arles in southern France. In less than a week, she discovered that the company had paid bribes to win contracts...

“I uncovered the practices within a few days,” Egorova- Farines says. “They were not hidden at all.”

“Those activities constitute violations of criminal law,” Koch Industries wrote in a Dec. 8, 2008, letter giving details of its findings. The letter was made public in a civil court ruling in France in September 2010; the document has never before been reported by the media.

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There is a littel snapshot of America for you... and they hate us for our freedoms.