Occupy Wall Street, along with other Occupy groups around the country, could benefit from strong leadership and a more narrow focus. The article discusses the current weakness of the movement and ways that it can utilize the grassroots power at its fingertips.
According to Mitt Romney, “President Obama’s strategy is a payphone strategy and we’re in a smartphone world.” “What he’s doing is taking quarters and stuffing them into a payphone, and he can’t figure out why it’s not working. It’s not connected anymore, Mr. President.”
Is it just me, or is the Presidential election cycle starting earlier and earlier? I mean since when do you hold Presidential primary debates before you’ve even had the preceding year’s general election? It was getting downright confusing for a while there, hearing people talking in the same breath about candidates that were running in different elections in different years.
The problem for today’s politicians is they look inept but is the real difficulty that the modern world does not give them enough thinking time? Or is it simply that politicians are so afraid of going ‘off message’ they don’t know what to do?
Campaigners for a major renegotiation of Britain’s membership of the European Union have recently suffered a serious set-back. A senior UK government source has revealed that Prime Minister David Cameron will not seek the return of powers from the EU in exchange for his agreement to a forthcoming EU deal on Eurozone ‘fiscal union’, contrary to previous promises.
The EU has been preparing to reveal a last-ditch ‘masterplan’ to save the euro. Over many months, a succession of summits have invented ever bigger sums of money the EU hopes to throw at the euro-zone debt crisis with seemingly little idea of how to amass the money. So far the EU’s only strategy appears to have been to try to intimidate the markets into submission with big numbers rather than come up with a longer-term solution that restores growth to troubled euro-zone economies.
The Globalists and Elite have infiltrated Australia. Gone are the days of a free market, independent media and distant government. The worlds most liveable country is facing it’s greatest challenge so far.
The economy is a symptom of what might most accurately be termed a collective mental illness. The presidential candidates, reinforced by entrenched interests, those vested in the status quo (financial, political and media elite), persist in focusing on the wrong issue. The single cause of our national malaise, our collective mental illness, is concentration of power.
“It’s all about the body and not about the brain” said one of the young girls featured in MissRepresentation, a documentary on women in media. Sad, right? A young woman should not be insecure about her body and feel less powerful if she does not have the “right” body.
Trying to make sense of the decision to keep a “morning after” birth control pill off store shelves? Focus on one simple fact: little girls don’t vote.
