Change Big Donors Can Believe In

Is public financing of campaigns dead? A year ago, Sen. Obama said, “I have been a longtime advocate for public financing of campaigns combined with free television and radio time as a way to reduce the influence of moneyed special interests.” Regardless of who the winner is, the next president will enter the White House with a long list of major donors to thank.

Continue reading about Obama's spending here

Which Personality of You is You

But what’s more exciting, I think, is the emergence of a different perspective on happiness itself. We used to think that the hard part of the question “How can I be happy?” had to do with nailing down the definition of happy. But it may have more to do with the definition of I. Many researchers now believe, to varying degrees, that each of us is a community of competing selves, with the happiness of one often causing the misery of another. This theory might explain certain puzzles of everyday life, such as why addictions and compulsions are so hard to shake off, and why we insist on spending so much of our lives in worlds­—like TV shows and novels and virtual-reality experiences—that don’t actually exist. And it provides a useful framework for thinking about the increasingly popular position that people would be better off if governments and businesses helped them inhibit certain gut feelings and emotional reactions.

To read more about our personalities and how we are all of them continue reading here

Fooled You (Obama supporter)!

Obama's set for election night in Chicago. His donors get front row seats to his speech on election night. News Cameras everywhere capturing the moment up close and personal.

not so fast.

You'll get front row seats if you were a top donor (no, not all you who donated small amounts that the campaign loves to whore out and speak highly of).

Press corps who shell out 935 dollars will get the best camera areas and views along with a tent internet cable tv, and food. Wow, is that all necessary? and since when did obama's campaign NEED money?

Of course if you're not willing to pay any money or are a small donor you could always stand by the bicycle racks where you might make out an ant that represents obama.


click here for more on the obama's election night specifics.

Banking on Dollar Coins

I'm intrigued by the U.S. Govt's actions to get people to think more 'green' with their money by lessening the use of paper money which costs the govt a lot more to make then it does to make (and recycle!) coins (which also last a lot longer).

Read the article on the govt's initiative to get us to use dollar coins here.

...Then tell me what you think. Would you carry dollar coins in your pocket instead of paper in your wallet?

Kick The Drug Offenders Out of Prison and Put The Corporate Crooks In.

I think Ralph Nader is absolutely right here. If you put people who are used to the finer life in jail you will get prison reform.

More on Codex Alimentarius

...Just because I thought it was that important (and it is, trust me).

The history of Codex began in 1893 when the Austria-Hungarian empire decided it needed a specific set of guidelines by which the courts could rule on cases dealing with food [1]. This regulatory set of mandates became known as Codex Alimentarius and was effectively implemented until the fall of the empire in 1918. The United Nations (UN) met in 1962 and decided that Codex should be re-implemented worldwide in order to protect health of the consumers. Two-thirds of funding for Codex emanates from the FAO while the other third comes from the WHO.

Check out the article here

ME AND I

In march, at the peak of Facebook popularity, I quit. with four swift clicks of the mouse, I canceled my account. Gone was the entire online persona I had created for myself – profile pictures, interests and activities, work history, friends acquired – all carefully thought out to showcase to the world the very best version of me, all now deleted.

Continue reading the article at Adbusters.org