Robert Reich With Advice for Obama

It really would be refreshing if the president listened to this guy. After all, it's not as if Reich hasn't had experience working with democratic presidents.

Amplify’d from robertreich.org

Why the President Must Come Up With Demand-Side Solutions, And Not Go Over to the Supply Side

Supply-side economics doesn’t work. It’s been tried for thirty years, to no avail. And now, when our continuing economic crisis is so palpably being driven by inadequate demand, it’s bogus than ever.   The last thing we need is for the President to go over to the supply side. Read more at robertreich.org

 

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Ralph Reed and Net Neutrality

Amplify’d from www.alternet.org

Did The Cable Industry Pay Ralph Reed Millions Of Dollars To Orchestrate Tea Party Opposition To Net Neutrality?

Around the same time the cable industry paid Reed over $3 million, cable companies across the country were battling a regulation known as “net neutrality”

The claims made by the ads are patently ridiculous. Net neutrality has existed since the early years of the Internet, when government-sponsored engineers developed the first networks and recognized that bandwidth discrimination would hamper innovation. Indeed, rather than a government “takeover” of the Internet, net neutrality ensures that Internet content — whether from a Tea Party website, a commercial website, or even from ThinkProgress.org — can’t be censored by a cable company or another provider. Despite supposed Tea Party opposition ginned up by groups like Americans for Prosperity, the FCC finally did hand down rules establishing net neutrality — with regrettable exceptions for mobile devices. Read more at www.alternet.org

 

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Storms Unheard of

And this was before the tornadoes hit Massachusetts yesterday.

Amplify’d from www.newsweek.com

Are You Ready for More? In a world of climate change, freak storms are the new normal. Why we’re unprepared for the harrowing future.

In a world of climate change, freak storms are the new normal. Why we’re unprepared for the harrowing future.

From these and other extreme-weather events, one lesson is sinking in with terrifying certainty. The stable climate of the last 12,000 years is gone. Which means you haven’t seen anything yet. And we are not prepared. Read more at www.newsweek.com

 

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