The Middle Class Grow the Economy, Not the Rich – President’s Speech Hints at Alternative Model of Growth

URL:  http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/12/middle_c…

‘As the president noted: “When middle-class families can no longer afford to buy the goods and services that businesses are selling, it drags down the entire economy from top to bottom. … that’s why a CEO like Henry Ford made it his mission to pay his workers enough so they could buy the cars they made.”

There are many other connections besides the demand case the president makes: a strong middle class is a prerequisite for robust entrepreneurship and innovation, a source of trust that makes business transactions more efficient, a bulwark against credit booms and busts, and a progenitor of virtuous, forward-looking behaviors, such as valuing education.’

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The Real Lesson of Iraq

URL:  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/29/opinion/the-real-less…

‘A more logical course of action would be to focus efforts on ensuring that Iran will abstain from crossing the nuclear weapons threshold. In fact, this is the most likely outcome if Iran is not attacked. An Iranian nuclear test would entail further isolation from the international community, which Tehran could ill afford. Not striking against Iran would be the better containment policy.’

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David Bowie – Heroes – Live Aid 1985

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I, I will be king
And you, you will be queen
Though nothing will drive them away
We can beat them, just for one day
We can be heroes, just for one day

And you, you can be mean
And I, I’ll drink all the time
‘Cause we’re lovers, and that is a fact
Yes we’re lovers, and that is that

Though nothing, will keep us together
We could steal time, just for one day
We can be heroes, for ever and ever
What d’you say?

I, I wish you could swim
Like the dolphins, like dolphins can swim
Though nothing, nothing will keep us together
We can beat them, for ever and ever
Oh we can be heroes, just for one day

I, I won’t be king
And you, you won’t be queen
Though nothing will drive them away
We can be heroes, just for one day
We can be us, just for one day

I, I can remember (I remember)
Standing, by the wall (by the wall)
And the guns, shot above our heads (over our heads)
And we kissed, as though nothing could fall (nothing could fall)
And the shame, was on the other side
Oh we can beat them, for ever and ever
Then we could be heroes, just for one day

We can be heroes
We can be heroes
We can be heroes
Just for one day
We can be heroes

We’re nothing, and nothing will help us
Maybe we’re lying, then you better not stay
But we could be safer, just for one day

U2 – Bad – Live Aid 1985

 

 

 

 

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If you twist and turn away
If you tear yourself in two again
If I could, yes I would
If I could, I would
Let it go
Surrender
Dislocate
If I could throw this
Lifeless lifeline to the wind
Leave this heart of clay
See you break, break away
Into the night
Through the rain
Into the half-light
Through the flame

If I could through myself
Set your spirit free
I’d lead your heart away
See you break, break away
Into the light
And to the day

Oooh oooh, oooh oooh, oooh oooh oooh…

To let it go! And so fade away
To let it go!
And so fade away
I’m wide awake
I’m wide awake
Wide awake
I’m not sleeping, oh no, no, no

If you should ask then maybe they’d
Tell you what I would say
True colors fly in blue and black
Blue silken sky and burning flag
Colors crash, collide in blood shot eyes

Oooh oooh, oooh oooh, oooh oooh oooh…

If I could, you know I would
If I could, I would
Let it go

This desparation
Dislocation
Separation
Condemnation
Revelation
In temptation
Isolation
Desolation
Isolation

Let it go
And so fade away
To let it go, oh yeah
And so fade away
To let it go, oh No
And so fade away
I’m wide awake
I’m wide awake
Wide awake
I’m not sleeping oh no no

‪Carl Sagan – God, the Universe, & Everything Else‬‏

‪Carl Sagan – God, the Universe, & Everything Else‬‏ – YouTube.

‪One of Carl Sagan’s most pertinent messages for humanity‬‏

‪One of Carl Sagan’s most pertinent messages for humanity‬‏ – YouTube.

Those worlds in space are as countless as all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the Earth. Each of those worlds is as real as ours. In every one of them, there’s a sucsession of incidence, events, occurences which influence its future. Countless worlds, numberless moments, an immensity of space and time. And our small planet, at this moment, here we face a critical branch-point in the history. What we do with our world, right now, will propagate down through the centuries and powerfully affect the destiny of our descendants. It is well within our power to destroy our civilization, and perhaps our species as well. If we capitulate to superstition, or greed, or stupidty we can plunge our world into a darkness deeper than time between the collapse of classical civilization and the Italian Renaissaince. But, we are also capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth, to make an abundant and meaningful life for every inhabitant of this planet. To enhance enormously our understanding of the Universe, and to carry us to the stars.

Vangelis & Jon Anderson – So Long Ago, So Clear

Once, we did run
How we chased a million stars
and touched as only one can
Once, we did play
How the past delivered you
Amidst our youth we’d dream away, away

As if I knew the words I’m sure you’ll hear
Of how we met as you recall so clear

Once, we did love
Long ago how did I forget
Holding you so closely

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Bruce Springsteen & Jackson Browne – Running On Empty (Live At Central Park, NY Rally For Disarmament 12-6-1982)

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields
In ’65 I was seventeen and running up 101
I don’t know where I’m running now, I’m just running on

Running on – running on empty
Running on – running blind
Running on – running into the sun
But I’m running behind

Gotta do what you can just to keep your love alive
Trying not to confuse it with what you do to survive
In ’69 I was twenty-one and I called the road my own
I don’t know when that road turned onto the road I’m on

Running on – running on empty
Running on – running blind
Running on – running into the sun
But I’m running behind

Everyone I know, everywhere I go
People need some reason to believe
I don’t know about anyone but me
If it takes all night, that’ll be all right
If I can get you to smile before I leave

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
I don’t know how to tell you all just how crazy this life feels
I look around for the friends that I used to turn to to pull me through
Looking into their eyes I see them running too

Running on – running on empty
Running on – running blind
Running on – running into the sun
But I’m running behind

Honey you really tempt me
You know the way you look so kind
I’d love to stick around but I’m running behind
You know I don’t even know what I’m hoping to find
Running into the sun but I’m running behind

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 76th Birthday Celebrations

This man is a true human being ….

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Fela Kuti – Army Arrangement

Whether you like or you no like
after you hear this true talk
if you like e good
if you no like you hang
if you hang you go die
you go die for nothing
you go carry your body go police station
you die e wrongfully

Man dey suffer him no fit talk na condition
man dey suffer him no fit talk na condition too
suffer dey Africa, ba ba da ba
I suffer dey ba ba da ba
condition dey e ba ba da ba
Me I no say you be African e man
and we dey suffer ba ba da ba
which condition you dey I don’t know
the condition me I dey me I know
My condition don’t teach make I act
Oh

If your condition today make you shake
and you still dey not talk the may you feel
make you open your eyes very well
to hear the truth talk me I dey talk
listen make you dey gree for me
Every day and night you dey hear me talk
One day yourself you go gree with me
to dey act the way as you dey feel
remember if you no act your own
one day of course we must die

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George Harrison – Got My Mind Set On You (2009 Stereo Remaster)

I got my mind set on you
I got my mind set on you
I got my mind set on you
I got my mind set on you

But it’s gonna take money
A whole lotta spending money
It’s gonne take plenty of money
To do it right child

It’s gonna take time
A whole lot of precious time
It’s gonna take patience and time, ummm
To do it, to do it, to do it, to do it, to do it,
To do it right child

I got my mind set on you
I got my mind set on you
I got my mind set on you
I got my mind set on you

And this time I know it’s for real
The feelings that I feel
I know if I put my mind to it
I know that I really can do it

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Queen – Live Aid Full Concert

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Carl Sagan – Life Beyond Earth And The Mind Of Man – 1975

“The universe is a pretty big space. It’s bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So, if it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space, right?”
- Carl Sagan

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Gentle Giant – Friends – “You only number just a few, But you are my good friends”

FRIENDS
Where would I be without friends, to take good care of me,
My friends,
What would I do I would be alone
On my own

Enemies, some say add spice to your life
But I’ve always hated to be so disliked
I cant see why in this short span of time
Anyone does without friends

FRIENDS
Will always help when you’re feeling down,
On the ground,
You’re friends
Will put a shoulder to the wheel
I feel

Enemies, some say add spice to your life
But I’ve always hated to be so disliked
I cant see why in this short span of time
Anyone does without friends

FRIENDS
This is a song to thank you all
For being my good friends,
You only number just a few,
But you are my good friends

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