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As the November 23rd deadline approaches for the “super committee” to find $1.2 trillion in deficit cuts over the next 10 years, I am writing to urge the members of the committee to consider options to cut government spending and raise revenue that extend beyond those typically discussed on Capitol Hill and in the media.…
From Oakland, California to New York City, the police, ordered by politicians, have smashed through Occupy encampments. Noted for their rigorous non-violence and orderly arrangements – tents with medical assistance, legal aid, libraries, media relations and sanitation controls – the Occupy protestors are being shoved out of their public places all over the country. The…
The organizers of the spreading Occupy initiative are taking their awareness and moral indignation right to corporate territory–Wall Street, the corporate lobbies in Washington, D.C. and their likes around the nation. The denizens of corporate territory have taken notice, with varying degrees of alarm, hoping that wintry weather will thin out the encampments. But the…
What people would not want Presidential Debates in multiple cities all over America in September and October 2012? Why, the people at the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). CPD is a private corporation created in 1987. It is controlled by the Republican and Democratic Parties and acts as the iron gatekeeper regarding the number of…
The question confronting the Occupy Wall Street encampments and their offshoots in scores of cities and towns around the country is quo vadis? Where is it going? This decentralized, leaderless civic initiative has attracted the persistent attention of the mass media in the past five weeks. Television cameras from all over the world are parked…
Congressman Ron Paul introduced H.R. 1831, the “Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2011” on May 11th of this year. It is a simple bill at just two pages in length, and it would legalize the growing of industrial hemp in the United States. Currently farmers can grow industrial hemp only if they have received a…
Cisco Update #3 to Shareholders – Ralph Nader Dear “Upset” Cisco Shareholder: Attached is my latest letter to Mr. Chambers which describes a course of action that we together can take. Bloomberg Financial reported this letter to the public on Monday, October 10, 2011. (Read it here: http://nader.org/index.php?/archives/2324-Letter-to-CISCO-CEO-John-Chambers.html) Cisco management still doesn’t “get it” when…
Inside the barricading bubbles surrounding the Wall Street plutocrats and the Washington oligarchs who service them, there must be worry. After three years of disclosed “lying, cheating and stealing” as one prosecutor put it, with nary a visible stir from the masses, suddenly the barricades are beginning to quiver. Could this “Occupy Wall Street” challenge…
October 10, 2011 John Chambers, CEO Cisco Corporation 170 West Tasman Drive San Jose, California, 95134-1706 Dear Mr. Chambers: Now that your quarterly report and forward prospects, together with the press briefing on September 13, 2011, are behind us, the following points need to be made: 1. Cisco shares have remained stagnant. Investor confidence has…
FOR RELEASE: October 10, 2011 Remarks by Ralph Nader: For weeks Bill O’Reilly’s producer Jesse Watters has been saying that his boss does want to have Bruce Fein on his show to talk about the unconstitutional and unlawful overseas aggressions of the Obama Administration, much like those of the Bush Administration but extended. It has…