Ralph Nader

Transcript on Democracy Now

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/11/2/ralph_nader_dems_face_losses_to

The Supreme Court decision in Citizens United in January of this year opened the floodgates to unlimited independent corporate money against or for candidates, the Republicans have set up, like the Democrats, these 501(c)(4)s to receive the money in secrecy.

Ralph Nader wrote: Ten Questions for Tea Partiers

http://www.nader.org/index.php?/archives/2217-Ten-Questions-for-Tea-Partiers.html

The big mistake progressives made last year was when they saw the Tea Partiers emerge, they didn’t create a countervailing grassroot effort, which would have gotten them quite a bit of press. If there’s just one pulse, called the Tea Party, among the citizenry, they’re going to get enormous press.

Ralph Nader : "I thought that the progressives should have started a Coffee Party."

Ralph Nader wrote: Doomsday for Democrats?

http://www.counterpunch.org/nader09132010.html

An article by Stephen Zunes, professor of poitics at University of San Francisco :

My Support for Ralph Nader, Ten Years Later: Lessons Learned

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/11/01

Ralph Nader wrote: When Corporations are the Government

http://www.counterpunch.org/nader11012010.html

Education

(1) Math Education :

>> Who Really Needs Math?

http://scienceblogs.com/evolutionblog/2010/11/who_really_needs_math.php?utm_source=sbhomepage&utm_medium=link&utm_content=channellink

A novel way to teach math through story-telling : Ko's Journey

http://www.imagineeducation.org/

Help Teach Young Children Math: Just Fractions! 2.0 For iPhone

http://www.product-reviews.net/2010/10/30/help-teach-young-children-math-just-fractions-2-0-for-iphone/

Brooklyn Robots Teach Math, Science and Engineering at First National Science Expo

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/brooklyn-robots-teach-math-science-and-engineering-at-first-national-science-expo-105526133.html

Singapore Math Problems: Primary 1
Free Printable Math Worksheets: 12
With Cool Graphics

Multiplication and Division:
Product Within 40

http://www.homeschooling-paradise.com/singapore-math-1-12.html

Singapore Program helps students learn at deeper level

http://www.knoxnews.com//news/2010/nov/09/singapore-program-helps-students-learn-at-deeper/

Problem Solving Strategies

http://www.thesingaporemaths.com/stratf.html

How to Decide Whether to Use Singapore Math
http://www.ehow.com/how_5286831_decide-whether-use-singapore-math.html

Singapore Math Strategies

http://www.ehow.com/way_5386776_singapore-math-strategies.html?sms_ss=twitter&at_xt=4ccf70aec94712f1,0

What Is Singapore Math?

http://www.ehow.com/about_5031909_singapore-math.html?sms_ss=twitter&at_xt=4ccf706243074922,0

Links to Singapore Math provided by @singamathexpert (on Twitter)

Stock Market

(1) Biggest Stock Market Crashes and Surges

A historical perspective

http://finance.sympatico.ca/galleries/stock_market_boom_bust

2008

The Great Recession, as it has been dubbed, officially started Dec. 2007 and ended June 2009, although the effects continue to be felt well into 2010.....

1930

It took about three weeks from Black Monday for the stock market to reach what looked like the bottom on Nov. 13, 1929. Then came a six-month recovery....

1937

If the early 1930s weren’t hard enough, 1937 brought the second worst stock market crash on record: a 49.1% drop through 1937 and 1938.....

1974

The social and political upheaval of the Sixties continued into the early 1970s. The global economic system was destabilized following the United States’ decision to withdraw from the Bretton Woods system of fixing its currency to the gold standard.....

1933

As dramatic as the stock market drops have been, the Dow has seen large rises in other years. Like many of the good years, 1933 followed a particularly bad year.....

1954

The massive government spending through the Second World War and the recovery and expansion efforts afterward had the economy humming....

1935

The 1933 rally was over. Business was worried about President Roosevelt’s New Deal, .....

1975

This rally was a reaction to the bear market in 1973 and 1974.........

1958

In 1957, there was a recession caused largely by the end of the postwar expansion ..........

Negativity

(1) Negative Information Weighs More Heavily on the Brain:

The Negativity Bias in Evaluative Categorizations

http://www.wisebrain.org/papers/NegativityBias.pdf

The study explains why, for example, political smear campaigns outpull positive ones.

Nastiness just makes a bigger impact on our brains.

Our Relationship with Food & Drinks

(1) Alcohol More Lethal Than Heroin Or Cocaine, Study Finds

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/31/alcohol-more-lethal-than-_n_776718.html?ir=Food

Capitalism

(1) Where is the World Economy Headed?

http://www.counterpunch.org/hudson09202010.html

(2) The Oligarchs' Escape Plan

http://www.counterpunch.org/hudson02172009.html

(3) The US$200-Trillion Debt Which Cannot Be Named

http://oolaah.com/?p=15385

Of Voting

(1) Nudge the vote

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/magazine/31politics-t.html

How behavorial science is remaking politics : Applying ideas from behavioral psychology to "nudge the vote"

(2) Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Lead Massive Rally to "Restore Sanity and/or Fear" in DC

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/11/1/rally_to_restore_sanity_and_or

Will a ‘million’ moderates on the Mall restore anyone’s sanity?

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/voices/will-a-million-moderates-on-the-mall-restore-anyones-sanity/4771/

(3) Ballot boxing: The problem with electronic voting machines

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/video/ballot-boxing-the-problem-with-electronic-voting-machines/4746/

(4) what's wrong with the way America votes

Too early, too often

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/culture/audio-too-early-too-often/4618/

(5) "Free Speech for People" Coalition Calls for Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United Decision Allowing Unlimited Corporate Spending on Elections

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/28/free_speech_for_people_coalition_urges

In a 5-4 decision, the Court ruled corporations have First Amendment rights and that the government cannot impose restrictions on their political speech, which cleared the way for corporations and other special interest groups to spend unlimited amounts of money on elections.

(6) Ohio McDonald's Employees Get A Message With Their Paychecks: Vote For GOP Candidates

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/29/ohio-mcdonalds-employees-_n_776262.html

Voter Intimidation At McDonald's: Employees Told That, Unless Republicans Win, They Won't Get Raises Or Benefit

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/29/voter-intimidation-mcdonalds-republican_n_776187.html

(7) Duelling useless machines: a metaphor for polarized politics

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/11/01/duelling-useless-mac.html

(8) Who's better at predicting elections: Pollsters or gamblers?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/11/01/130982229/midterm-elections-2010-money-vs-polls

Quote :

'Those who cast the votes decide nothing.
Those who count the votes decide everything.'
- Joseph Stalin

1. We're still on the fast track to the poor house.
2. Nobody's talking about foreign policy and ending the warfare state.
3. The only people worse than liberals on social issues are conservatives.

http://reason.tv/