We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Friday, February 6, 2015

Gallup CEO Fears He Might “Suddenly Disappear” for Questioning U.S. Jobs Data

Click here to access article by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from Wall Street on Parade.
The fact that hourly earnings are not improving with the improvement in the official unemployment rate and that the labor force participation rate of working age men (ages 25 to 54) now stands at the lowest level since the BLS [Bureau of Labor Statistics] started keeping records more than 60 years ago adds further fodder to “The Big Lie” theory. [my link]
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