Archive for March, 2009
Keep Calm and Carry On
March 26, 2009
In early 1939, during the run-up to war with Germany, the British propaganda ministry created these posters – “Keep Calm and Carry On” – in order to reassure the people, and remind them that all would be okay, no matter how dire the circumstances, if only they would not fall into fear and paranoia.
While very [...]
Wanted for Economicide
March 24, 2009
In 1999, President Bill Clinton signed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, effectively repealing some of the strongest protections against financial meltdown our legislature had ever created.
The 1933 Glass-Steagall Act was a response to the stock market crash of 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression, and it accomplished two very important things. The first was the establishment of [...]