Month: December 2021

Categories
Economics Politics Social Evolution

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words…

Network – Howard Beale…

https://youtu.be/MRuS3dxKK9U
“I’m a human being, goddamnit! My life has value!”

Yet the wrong people got mad and we learned the wrong lesson.

Wall Street – Gordon Gekko

“Greed is Good.”

And so it is…

The Big Short – Jared Vennett explains Wall Street’s mortgage backed securities con.

“It’s all shit.”

Predators eat their own…

Margin Call – John Tuld

“Sell it all. Today.”

And it wasn’t just a movie…

U.S. Senate Hearing – Senator Levin grills Goldman Sachs – 2010

“How Goldman got comfortable (screwing their own clients)”

Then the predators blame the prey…

Rick Santelli Rant – 2/19/2009

“Do we want to subsidize the losers’ mortgages.”

Comedy becomes the last refuge of truth – Jon Stewart exposes Jim Cramer

“F@#k you!”

But the suffering is real…

Up in the Air – You’re Fired

“I think the anger comes from I just wasn’t needed anymore.”

“Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.”

Joker – 2019

“Everything Must Go!”

Surely a global pandemic will bring us together…

PBS Newshour – Judy Woodruff

“How the pandemic has exposed America’s deep divide.”

And yet we have a much bigger problem…

Natural Disasters from climate change – December 22 to 25, 2021

https://youtu.be/RoJv1IzPBk8
These severe weather events are occuring because global average surface temperature has increased 1.07°C since 1850. (See UN’s 6th IPCC report – 8/2021)

Will we notice the threat of climate change?

Don’t Look Up – Interview: Leonardo DiCaprio

“We have a finite window of 10 years to make this transition.”