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Economic Dreams - Economic Nightmares

http://forestpolicy.typepad.com/economics/ I spent most of my working life in the US Forest Service, battling fundamentalism. Most of the battles dealt with economics. My first job was to coordinate use of a linear programming model (FORPLAN) in the development of forest plans. The model may (or may not) have been useful in projecting overall timber sales volumes from big-timber forests, but to have used it as an overall planning model was a mistake.

Judicial corruption Noam Chomsky on Corporate Personhood

Noam Chomsky on Corporate Personhood Boulder, CO on April 22, 2011 http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/judicial-corruption/noam-chomsky-on-corporate-personhood.html
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_from_Birmingham_Jail

Letter from Birmingham Jail

The Letter from Birmingham Jail or Letter from Birmingham City Jail , also known as The Negro Is Your Brother , is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King, Jr. , American civil rights leader. [ edit ] Background
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It's the Inequality, Stupid

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph