tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5724181159639068489.post3592426793666258538..comments2023-11-05T05:09:14.089-05:00Comments on Goldman Sachs: Information, Comments, Opinions and Facts: Goldman Sachs’s exceptionalism takes another knockRobertMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03960912417983904202noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5724181159639068489.post-3705095130780020442011-10-20T11:48:36.800-04:002011-10-20T11:48:36.800-04:00NPR Gets Radio Host Fired for Occupying
Simeone t...NPR Gets Radio Host Fired for Occupying<br /><br />Simeone told me: "I find it puzzling that NPR objects to my exercising my rights as an American citizen -- the right to free speech, the right to peaceable assembly -- on my own time in my own life. I'm not an NPR employee. I'm a freelancer. NPR doesn't pay me. I'm also not a news reporter. I don't cover politics. I've never brought a whiff of my political activities into the work I've done for NPR World of Opera. What is NPR afraid I'll do -- insert a seditious comment into a synopsis of Madame Butterfly?<br /><br />It may be difficult for NPR bigwigs to understand why we don't all just rent $400 per night hotel rooms instead of littering a public square with tents. But NPR's highly paid political agitators on behalf of the 1% are part of the problem. They are what we are protesting. And that is presumably what makes our speech and assembly "unethical." <br /><br />Or perhaps the breech of ethics is to be found in behaving as a decent citizen while simultaneously possessing some connection to the most insidious corporate loudspeaker in the country, one labeled "public" but belonging to the 1%.<br /><br />The most important point to stress here, I think, is that all requests should be routed through NPR Communications at 202-513-2300 or mediarelations@npr.org<br /><br />http://warisacrime.org/content/npr-gets-producer-fired-occupyingSilencednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5724181159639068489.post-61015080945759292172011-10-20T08:42:07.920-04:002011-10-20T08:42:07.920-04:00Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the wo...Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world<br /><br /><br />AS PROTESTS against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters' worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.<br /><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> The study's assumptions have attracted some criticism, but complex systems analysts contacted by New Scientist<br /> say it is a unique effort to untangle control in the global economy. <br />Pushing the analysis further, they say, could help to identify ways of <br />making global capitalism more stable.<br /><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> The idea that a few bankers control a large chunk of the global economy might not seem like news to New York's Occupy Wall Street movement and protesters elsewhere (see photo).<br /> But the study, by a trio of complex systems theorists at the Swiss <br />Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, is the first to go beyond <br />ideology to empirically identify such a network of power. It combines <br />the mathematics long used to model natural systems with comprehensive <br />corporate data to map ownership among the world's transnational <br />corporations (TNCs).<br /><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> "Reality is so complex, we must move away from dogma, whether it's conspiracy theories or free-market," says James Glattfelder. "Our analysis is reality-based."<br />When the team further untangled the web of ownership, it found much of <br />it tracked back to a "super-entity" of 147 even more tightly knit <br />companies - all of their ownership was held by other members of the <br />super-entity - that controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the <br />network. "In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies were able to <br />control 40 per cent of the entire network," says Glattfelder. Most were <br />financial institutions. The top 20 included Barclays Bank, JPMorgan <br />Chase & Co, and The Goldman Sachs Group.<br />http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed--the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.htmlKiss the ringnoreply@blogger.com