Prepare for Change

http://iran.whyweprotest.net Project Chanology, the movement to help expose the Church of Scientology, has partnered with the democracy activists in Iran to provide a voice to Iranians seeking freedom in their country. I think we'll be seeing more and more of this, where one online community helps another online community, simply because they share a common goal or ideal. There is power in numbers.

http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2009/06/200961881243654538.html I like this guy. It makes no sense to me to be propping up the very companies and people who caused the failure in the first place. Plus, trickle down has shown to be a bogus theory anyway.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5530Y020090604 60% of bankruptcies in the US are caused by medical bills. 47 million Americans don't have health care coverage. The US is the only major country on earth without universal health care. We can be so backward in some things...

http://www.thesocialpath.com/2009/05/10-examples-of-crowdsourcing.html My research on Project Chanology showed me that it's not as hard as you think to have thousands of people suddenly decide that a social project is worth their time and effort, even if there's no monetary gain for them. Crowdsourcing is an alternative to forming or hiring a business to accomplish some task. I love it.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1934170062/boingboing Anybody wanna review one of these? Fortunately, it looks like there are several good books available.

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/04/0082451 I hate these places. They suck the life out of the poor. Then they claim they're "helping."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/11/glass-steagall-act-the-se_n_201557.html "I want to sound a warning call today about this legislation," he declared, swaying ever so slightly right, then left, occasionally punching the air in front of him with a slightly closed fist. "I think this legislation is just fundamentally terrible." The legislation was the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act (alternatively known as Gramm Leach Bliley), which allowed banks to merge with insurance companies and investment houses. And Dorgan was, at the time, on a proverbial island with his concerns. Only eight senators would vote against the measure -- lionized by its proponents, including senior staff in the Clinton administration and many now staffing President Obama, as the most important breakthrough in the worlds of finance and politics in decades. * * * * Deregulation of our economic system is a green light for greed to run amok. Now we are paying for that. Kudos to those...