WEALTH AND MONEY PART XXXII A HUGE WIN FOR PUBLIC BANKING
Santa Fe, New Mexico is a city of roughly 70,000 people. They have just won a major victory in overcoming the parasitic bonds of the Wall Street banking cartel. Rather than continuing to live in endless debt servitude to wealthy predators, the people of Santa Fe are choosing to invest in themselves. City wealth and capital will be placed in a community owned bank and interest on investments will be returned to the people. Millions of dollars in public funds that would have gone to Wall Street will now be used to improve life for the citizens of Santa Fe.
The Wausau ...
SUBSTANCE ABUSE: it’s everybody’s business
Sponsored by The Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service
Tuesday, May 16
8 a.m. – 2 p.m.
James F. Veninga Theater
UW Center for Civic Engagement
625 Stewart Avenue, Wausau
Event Summary:
On May 16, the Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service (WIPPS) is hosting a regional conference to raise awareness throughout communities that addiction is a chronic disease, recovery is possible and that community-wide recovery eco-systems are necessary. The purpose of the conference is to bring people together from different backgrounds and ...
You Can’t Fix Stupid
On Monday, January 30th, the current administration moved to reduce government “regulation.” Trump signed an executive order requiring all federal agencies to repeal two regulations for each new one proposed. At meetings with business executives from large companies he has promised to cut regulation by 75 percent.
“If there’s a new regulation, they have to knock out two. But it goes far beyond that, we’re cutting regulations massively for small business and for large business,” Trump said during the signing of the order. The administration stresses that the ...
TEN EXAMPLES OF HOW WOMEN ARE TREATED UNFAIRLY
1. Women working full time are paid 79 cents to every dollar men working full time are paid.
2. Men direct 86 percent of all television episodes in 2013 and 2014
3. Nearly two thirds of bylines, on-camera appearances and producer credits were listed to men, while women constituted only a third of these contributors.
4. Even among the top-grossing G-rated family films, girl characters are outnumbered by boy characters three to one.
5. Only 7 percent of directors, 13 percent of writers, and 20 percent of producers are women.
6. In 2014, about 30 percent of TV ...
HIS FIGHT, OUR FIGHT
(Denele blogs from Arkansas. You can read more at DeneleCampbell.org.)
According to the brief description that accompanied this photo that crossed my Facebook timeline the other day, the funeral of Pretty Boy Floyd drew the largest attendance of any such event in Oklahoma history. The image gives me goosebumps, almost puts a lump in my throat. It’s not the coffin—I can’t even discern where it is. It’s the people, backs straight, their attention focused entirely on the dead man.
On what he represented.
My dad sometimes talked about Pretty Boy Floyd although ...
DRINKING LIBERALLY
DRINKING LIBERALLY
TUESDAY, MAY 2
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Malarkey’s Pub
408 Third Street
Wausau, WI
715-819-3663
We have survived the first 100 days, although it seems like it's been years! Are we there yet? Come celebrate surviving the first 100 days See how others continue to fight for change, and have a pint.
Hopefully our government will be open for business and working on a budget agreement by then, but if not, at least we can enjoy some good beer with friends. Hope to see you.
Check out "Blue in a Red State: The Survival Guide to Life in ...
QUOTATIONS
“We seemingly tolerate a rising level of violence that ignores our common humanity and our claims to civilization alike. We calmly accept newspaper reports of civilian slaughter in far off lands. We glorify killing on movie and television screens and call it entertainment. We make it easy for men of all shades of sanity to acquire weapons and ammunition they desire.”
--Robert F. Kennedy, 1967
“All of the amazing people in the world will always outnumber the criminals.”
--Anna Weiland, 10 years old, March 29, 2017
“An individual has not started living ...
THE SKY IS GREEN AND GRASS IS BLUE
THE SKY IS GREEN AND GRASS IS BLUE
This is the now famous photograph of the “Napalm Girl” and of the Vietnamese children fleeing because aircraft from the United States of America were dumping the chemical weapon napalm on their village. Napalm was designed to stick to the human body and burn off the skin.
This is a photograph of a Vietnamese woman holding a child who has been burned by napalm. The dropping of napalm and Agent Orange by the United States over Vietnam is likely the greatest use of chemical weapons in world history. Thousands of Vietnamese ...
SENDING MESSAGES
Two big news stories of the last week are the missile attack on Syria and the “mother of all bombs” being used in Afghanistan. The juxtaposition of these stories with the April tax filing deadline is so ironic it demands comment. These two attacks on other countries are classic examples of why we have budget problems. These stories also speak volumes about who we think we are, vs who we actually are, as a society.
The U.S. attacked an airbase in Syria with 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles in response to the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government. Our ...
Earth Day March and Celebration
We will celebrate Earth Day and affirm our Support for Science on Saturday, April 22 with a march. We will start at 11 AM where the north entrance to the River Edge Walkway begins at the Wisconsin River end of Winton Street. Bring your signs and banners. Our walk ends at the Oak Island Park shelter just north of Thomas Street at 12 o'clock. We will plant an oak tree nearby. Folks who want a shorter walk can join anywhere along the way or just meet at the park.Mayor Robert Mielke will officiate and dedicate the tree. Retired UWMC Professor of Biology Dr. Ned Grossnickle ...
