Tomorrow kicks of the beginning of Houston’s participation in the OccupyTogether movement. TIME: Thursday, October 6 – Ongoing LOCATION: Neet at Market Square Park at 8:30am on October 6. Pick up a sign if you don’t have one. Meet your fellow protesters, and get ready to march! At 9:00am we march to J.P. Morgan Chase Tower downtown. Read more…
Here are some new updates on Occupy Wall Street: First ‘Official’ statement. There are more on the way including 1) A declaration of demands. 2) Principles of Solidarity 3) Documentation on how to form your own Direct Democracy Occupation Group 700 were arrested on Saturday Some Marines are planning to join Read more…
I’ve been following the Occupy Wall Street movement since they started back on Sept 17th. I’ve mostly been observing, I did study Political Science as an undergrad major, so things like this fascinate me. I’ve taken time to watch some of the live streaming of the protest. When I first Read more…
Apparently, the Chinese are starting the process of developing their own space station. That kind of diminishes the status of the International Space Station we currently have. So it gets away from the spirit of international cooperation. And the name of their first testing module, Heavenly Palace-1 , is just cooler. Read more…
I was thinking recently about how short sighted political decisions are. Specifically, I’m talking here about NASA. The shuttle program, after 30years of flying the first reusable vehicle, ended this year. There were a few screw ups (Challenger, Columbia), but that was 2 out of 135. That’s a 1.5% failure Read more…
President Obama gave a speech last night. It was a good speech, delivered with the confident and charismatic way that I haven’t seen from Obama in awhile. Here’s somethings I want to highlight “The question is whether, in the face of an ongoing national crisis, we can stop the political Read more…
Jon Stewart has done it again. He has taken the anti-tax, anti-poor, Ayn Randesq statements that many conservative politicians and media pundits and distilled it down to the utter absurdity that it is. The fact that there are so many people that think that a poor family owning a refrigerator makes Read more…
In talking about an Op-Ed by Warren Buffet that called for taxes to be raised on the super-wealthy, John Scalzi made a point that got me thinking. Bolding mine. The worries for the tender sensibilities of the rich has been a hallmark of conservative American politics since time immemorial, but Read more…
Corporatocracy Corporate oligarchy is a form of power, governmental or operational, where such power effectively rests with a small, elite group of inside individuals, sometimes from a small group of educational institutions, or influential economic entities or devices, such as banks, commercial entities that act in complicity with, or at the Read more…