As a follow on to the non violent action of encouraging others to switch their business and personal accounts to ethical banks, as ever, the challenge is to go mainstream to get some proper attension. How? Harness the power of amusing e-mails swapped between friends (I often get good ones several times from different sources [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Richard D. Wolff on Obama's Stimulus
Wolff: “Stimulus won’t succeed if the structural changes that lowered wages are not addressed”… a view on the changing relationship between capital and labour.
Speak up!
There’s not much point in coming here if you’re not going to bother to say anything. This blog originated at the request of people who felt they wanted to discuss things free from the limitations of BBC moderation. I also got the impression (perhaps mistakenly) that these were people who actually wanted to do something [...]
Something to do
It seems only a matter of time now before things start to unravel very quickly. The longer it takes the worse it will be. So why not do something – starting tomorrow – that will not only speed up the process but make things easier for yourself in the long run? Certain banks are unlikely [...]
Questions that need asking
It’s occurred to me that something that could produce a different letter every time you clicked might be neat – a kind of random-rant generator. There’s actually quite a wealth of questions people could put to their MP complaints opinions already – just from our own members. If we could put these in a database [...]
Banking Bonuses- a plain speaking guide (long post)
An insiders view of the current bonus controversy. Cut and pasted from elsewhere online and deserving of a crystal mark from the Plain English Society- The whole bonus thing is not at all straight forward and the right and wrongs of it can not be generalised as “no-one should get one”. As another user pointed [...]
What do we actually want to do about it?
Having followed all the discussions so far (admittedly mostly as an observer) I have to say that this is not that clear to me what the purpose of the Lobby Group actually IS. We need some convincing answers to the following: What difference will that make to anything? Will it make my job more secure? [...]
The Crash Course
A good place to start understanding some of the underlying reasons for the current mess (explained in good old laymans terms) is here- http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse Takes a couple of hours to go through the whole thing but it is well worth the time.
Environmental Issues
First posted on the original Lobby Group blog by contributor Coral Bloom- Modern governments and businesses do not use Full Cost Accounting Techniques. This must be implemented across all sectors. Regardless of your personal views on Global Warming, there is not one single reason why you or an organisation should trash planet earth. You would [...]
Failure of Globalisation
First posted in the original Lobby Group blog by contributor Coral Bloom- Failure of Globalisation There are many, many issues and I feel I lack any kind of real in-depth of knowledge as to their causes and therefore their remedy. The complexity merits a level of expertise which I lack. However, after much thought and [...]
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