…They came first for the Communists,
And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;

And then they came for the trade unionists,
And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;

And then they came for the Jews,
And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;

And then… they came for me…
And by that time there was no one left to speak up.

Martin Niemöller (Wikipedia)

I really can’t tell what shocks me the most, the supermarkets refusal on inscribing the name on the child’s birthday cake, or the parents who choose Adolf Hitler Campbell as their child’s name…

An excelent excerpt from On The Media from NPR, where the author of a new book describes the selective amnesia, promiscuity and cowardics that surrounds the coverage of financial crisis.

Risk and Return

The world is at a crossroad, one of the biggest in modern history.

Todays elections in the US will determine the path to be followed.

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