"...this is a grassroots citizens’ movement brought to you by a bunch of oil billionaires..."There's a wonderful deep piece on Charles and David Koch and the Kochtopus by Jane Mayer in the latest New Yorker, Covert Operations - The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama.
- David Axelrod
The TPP folk do seem blind to the difference between people and corporations; I've spoken with two locals, Stan Meckler being one, and when I asked whether the "people" who needed to take back the government would include corporations, they didn't see it as an issue.
(Stan and J., if I misunderstood, please set me straight.)
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The Tea Party folks aside, what are the non-crazy rest of us going to do about it? I suspect the answer is the usual, i.e. close to nothing.
> "what are the non-crazy rest of us going to do about it?"
Answer: Pass around links to the recent NYTimes piece Disaster at the Top of the World, which covers all the bases - cognitive biases, Arctic changes, experts, destabilization & famine, national security, the need to prepare.
(i.e. build political will)
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