http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/02/inquiring-minds-edward-frenkel-math-doesnt-suck

Piketty Primer http://radioopensource.org/capital-in-10-graphs/#comment-918174

[already cited "The reduction, in part, enables the phenomenologist to go back to the things themselves, meaning back to the ways that things are actually given in experience.” http://www.iep.utm.edu/phenom/#SH2b ]





below from misc sources

Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Historical_Mariginal_Tax_Rate_for_Highest_and_Lowest_Income_Earners.jpg




Figure F
http://www.epi.org/publication/lost-decade-poverty-income-trends-continue-2/

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/23/1260093/-Lower-corporate-taxes-don-t-mean-more-jobs




http://www.foreffectivegov.org/files/budget/corp-tax-rate-debate.pdf


http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/12/new-study-confirms-that-lower-corporate-tax-rates-dont-create-jobs.html

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10203687171320888&set=p.10203687171320888&type=1&theater

http://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez/saez-UStopincomes-2010.pdf




HARDWARE NOT:
The Big Disconnect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypHFRgrtq_o

"The time came when technique was identified with the visual realm, and technically produced visual images gave people undeniable evidence. At the same time, images gave a feeling of unlimited power. This is when language began to be thought of as just 'talk,' because it did not give the same kind of clear certainty and indisputable results that visualization and technique did." Jacques Ellul
http://www.religion-online.org/showbook.asp?title=499

FACTS: 
Weekly shows on the economy, Dr Jack Rasmus
http://prn.fm/category/archives/alternative-visions/#axzz26ySyu8Fl

Hudson
http://michael-hudson.com/




just a little history...

"The accounts of the former employees help explain why Obama’s plan fell far short of the 3 million averted foreclosures targeted in 2009. Relying on the same industry that sold shoddy mortgages during the housing bubble and improperly sped foreclosures afterward, HAMP resulted in still-active modifications for 905,663 homeowners as of the end of August, or 13 percent of the 6.9 million people who applied." http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-16/secret-inside-bofa-office-of-ceo-stymied-needy-homeowners.html

[2009?] "'Created' might seem like a strong word, but in fact, banks typically create money as a bookkeeping entry that did not exist before. Because of what is called 'fractional reserve lending,' banks can create up to 10 times more money than they have on deposit with the central bank."
 http://ipsnorthamerica.net/print.php?idnews=2379

Good summary above of the who-should-create-the-money debate behind some of Hedges' observations. I however and Wikipedia (I think) are behind a bit on what has or hasn't been done germane legislatively. Ellen Brown's article from last December reads as though nothing has fixed the basic problem since it got citizens rattled back in the 19th century.

"What the American people got [after 1913] was a money supply created by private banks as credit (or debt) lent to the government and the people at interest. Although the national money supply would be printed by the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, it would be issued by the 'bankers’ bank,' the Federal Reserve. The Fed is composed of twelve branches, all of which are 100 percent owned by the banks in their districts."

"Commercial banks did not rebate the interest they collected to the government, said Voorhis, although they also 'buy the bonds with newly created demand deposit entries on their books—nothing more.' ”

"It may be time for a new populist movement, one that demands that the power to issue money be returned to the government and the people it represents; and that the Federal Reserve be made a public utility, owned by the people and serving them. The firehose of cheap credit lavished on Wall Street needs to be re-directed to Main Street."
http://ellenbrown.com/.../100-years-is-enough-time-to.../

100 Years Is Enough: Time to Make the Fed a Public Utility

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Transparency_Act








more reflections

https://www.google.com/search?as_q=images+digital+trivia+electronic+apathy&as_epq=&as_oq=Baudrillard+McLuhan+narcissism&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&tbs=&as_filetype=&as_rights=

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/

Joe Bageant: Algorithms and Red Wine
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9412224

bageant & rockstroh
http://www.swans.com/library/art11/prjsjoeb.html

http://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/Illumina%20Folder/kell26.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard

2008 facebook girard
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook

https://www.google.com/search?as_q=rene+girard+mimesis&as_epq=digital+culture&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&tbs=&as_filetype=&as_rights=

http://ca.linkedin.com/in/philroselinked