Aug 20th, 2012
"The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause and effect, and those who, numbed by isolation and despair, now seek meaning in a mythical world of intuition, a world that is no longer reality-based, a world of magic."
-- Chris Hedges
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Monday, August 20, 2012
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Quote Of The Day
March 4th, 2012
"The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause and effect, and those who, numbed by isolation and despair, now seek meaning in a mythical world of intuition, a world that is no longer reality-based, a world of magic."
-- Chris Hedges
-- Chris Hedges
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Christianity & The Occupation
Dec 4th, 2011
Speaking yesterday at Liberty Square, Chris Hedges called upon Christians to embrace the Occupation.
Speaking yesterday at Liberty Square, Chris Hedges called upon Christians to embrace the Occupation.
Monday, November 7, 2011
The Liberal Elites Grow Fearful Of The Occupation
Nov 7th, 2011
Following his arrest last week after the mock trial of Goldman Sachs, Chris Hedges muses on the fearful response of liberal political elites to the Occupy Movement:
"Our political class, and its courtiers on the airwaves, insists that if we refuse to comply, if we step outside of the Democratic Party, if we rebel, we will make things worse. This game of accepting the lesser evil enables the steady erosion of justice and corporate plundering. It enables corporations to harvest the nation and finally the global economy, reconfiguring the world into neofeudalism, one of masters and serfs. This game goes on until there is hardly any action carried out by the power elite that is not a crime. It goes on until corporate predators, who long ago decided the nation and the planet were not worth salvaging, seize the last drops of wealth. It goes on until moral acts, such as calling for those inside the corporate headquarters of Goldman Sachs to be tried, see you jailed, and the crimes of financial fraud and perjury are upheld as lawful and rewarded by the courts, the U.S. Treasury and the Congress. And all this is done so a handful of rapacious, immoral plutocrats like Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs who sucks down about $250,000 a day and who lied to the U.S. Congress as well as his investors and the public, can use their dirty money to retreat into their own Forbidden City or Versailles while their underlings, basking in the arrogance of power, snap amusing photos of the rabble outside their gates being hauled away by the police and company goons."
Following his arrest last week after the mock trial of Goldman Sachs, Chris Hedges muses on the fearful response of liberal political elites to the Occupy Movement:
"Our political class, and its courtiers on the airwaves, insists that if we refuse to comply, if we step outside of the Democratic Party, if we rebel, we will make things worse. This game of accepting the lesser evil enables the steady erosion of justice and corporate plundering. It enables corporations to harvest the nation and finally the global economy, reconfiguring the world into neofeudalism, one of masters and serfs. This game goes on until there is hardly any action carried out by the power elite that is not a crime. It goes on until corporate predators, who long ago decided the nation and the planet were not worth salvaging, seize the last drops of wealth. It goes on until moral acts, such as calling for those inside the corporate headquarters of Goldman Sachs to be tried, see you jailed, and the crimes of financial fraud and perjury are upheld as lawful and rewarded by the courts, the U.S. Treasury and the Congress. And all this is done so a handful of rapacious, immoral plutocrats like Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs who sucks down about $250,000 a day and who lied to the U.S. Congress as well as his investors and the public, can use their dirty money to retreat into their own Forbidden City or Versailles while their underlings, basking in the arrogance of power, snap amusing photos of the rabble outside their gates being hauled away by the police and company goons."
The "Trial" Of Goldman Sachs
Nov 7th, 2011
Last Thursday, Chris Hedges, Cornel West and others held a "people's hearing" meant to expose the corruption of Goldman Sachs.
Via WSJ:
"At the entrance to Goldman’s headquarters on West Street, protesters read their verdict aloud: "Guilty of felony fraud, violating security laws, perjury before a Senate commission and the theft of $78 billion in taxpayer money."
Last Thursday, Chris Hedges, Cornel West and others held a "people's hearing" meant to expose the corruption of Goldman Sachs.
Via WSJ:
"At the entrance to Goldman’s headquarters on West Street, protesters read their verdict aloud: "Guilty of felony fraud, violating security laws, perjury before a Senate commission and the theft of $78 billion in taxpayer money."
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